JONATHAN MCBURNIE | 'Floodland' | Illustrated bookFLOODLAND brings together a series of personal and natural disasters featured in illustrations and comics by Jonathan McBurnie. Beginning with the protagonists (referred to as the King of Shitty or King of Nails) chronic illness, it relates a long period of bizarre artistic practices, awkward art school relationships, the brutal reality of the nine to five grind, and the transition between emerging artist and submerging artist, and culminates in the

and the artist's contemporary life experiences growing up in Zenadh-Kes

they feel sad and get upset and when they come to close to towns community and homes they get shot and killed but it's us that needs to take a long hard look at what we are doing to the land

Published by KickArts Contemporary Arts Ltd

Paper size: 815 x 1200 mm

Image size: 695mm x 900mm

Acrylic on Belgian Linen

frigate bird

Edition of 30

Within the work

Wakain Pal’n nui apasi ngogu adiew gidthaka ar ngogu kuiku maibaika – it is time – listen to the advice of the ancestors

FLOODLAND draws parallels between the constructed worlds of art

Printed by: Theo Tremblay