We Are Sailing from the Known to the Unknown
Gina Sinozich2003
Australian National Maritime Museum
Sydney, Australia
We are sailing from the Known to the Unknown' represents the feelings of unfamiliarity and uncertainty that many migrants and refugees felt on moving to Australia, a mysterious country at the end of the world.
Gina Sinozich's painting shows the liner SS NEPTUNIA sailing across a stylised map from Croatia to Australia, representing the voyage of the artist and her family in 1957. The map of Croatia includes villages and a church while Australia is shown with Uluru, a kangaroo and Aboriginal people. For many displaced persons fleeing Europe after World War II iconic representations such as these were all they knew of their future home.
- Title: We Are Sailing from the Known to the Unknown
- Creator: Gina Sinozich
- Date: 2003
- Location: Sydney
- Type: Painting
- Significance: Gina Sinozich's painting highlights her family's migration journey from Croatia to Australia in 1957. It represents the experience of many displaced people compelled to move from Europe in the aftermath of World War II.
- See institution's online collections: http://www.anmm.gov.au/collections
- Medium: Oil on wood
- Dimensions: 900 x 450 mm, 2 mm, 1.1 kg
- Credit line: ANMM Collection Gift from Gina Sinozich
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