Bruce Connew

Bruce Connew's work  featured in the latest issue of The Funambulist Magazine, alongside a conversation with writer and scholar Quito Swan, ‘Black Internationalism from Bermuda to Africa, to the Oceanian Struggles’.

The three images featured in this brilliant publication are from Bruce's 1984 series Kanaky, following the Kanak rebellion in New Caledonia.

Pictured is Kanaky #9: "Insurgents of the ragged army of the Kanak Socialist Liberation Front in New Caledonia are part-time insurgents only. Most of the time, they are farmers. Their task is to retain some control over the countryside surrounding the east coast town of Thio, centre of the nickel mining industry and thus the heart of the New Caledonia economy. Farmer-insurgents spend one week in three doing duty based at a farmhouse on the outskirts of Thio. They man roadblocks and remain in a state of preparedness for any vigilante actions that might be mounted against them by whites seeking to wipe out the small gains the Kanaks have made in re-establishing their presence on tribal lands, New Caledonia, December 1984." - from Bruce's artist website

Order your copy of the publication via link in @thefunambulistmagazine bio.

Another image from the Kanaky series will also be on the cover of Quito’s new book ‘Pasifika Black: Oceania, Anti-colonialism, and the African World (NYU Press, March 2022).

January 6, 2022