Aussie - Bejah Dervish Australian Protest Poster
- 2025
- Peter Drew
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32 x 46 inches ~ (81 x 116 cm)$385
- Unbacked
This poster is currently unbacked. At check out, you will be given the opportunity to add backing which would cost $190 and take approximately 6-8 weeks.
Linen backing is the industry standard of conservation. Canvas is stretchered and a sheet of acid free barrier paper is laid down. The poster is then pasted to the acid free paper using an acid free paste. This process is fully reversible and gives support to the poster. A border of linen is left around the poster and can be used by a framer to mount the poster so that nothing touches the poster itself. Backing is what we recommend for framing, and for any poster needing restoration.
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Peter Drew is an Australian artist whose work is concerned with memory, nationalism, masculinity, criminality, brown paper and mythology.
Bejah Dervish was twenty-eight at the time this photo was taken in 1890 on Rundle St, Adelaide. At that age he had already served with British forces at Kandahar and Karachi under Lord Roberts, where he attained the rank of sergeant. In 1896 Bejah was engaged by Lawrence Wells to manage the camels used for transport on the ill-fated Calvert Scientific Exploring Expedition to the Great Sandy Desert of north-central Western Australia. In 1902 he settled in Marree where he bought land, operated his camel transport business, married and raised a son. In 1930 he retired from camel driving to grow date palms. Sixty Four year after this photo was taken of Bejah Dervish, the was featured in the award-winning documentary film The Back of Beyond. He died three years later On 6 May 1957 in the Port Augusta Hospital.
