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Born in Melbourne and of Torres Strait Islander heritage, Clinton Nain creates vivid abstract canvases using domestic materials such as heritage coloured house paint, bitumen paint, and household bleach. He employs a range of motifs in his art that refer to the dominant culture and symbols of its power, ranging from language, religion, land, country, and the history of the dispossessed. Nain is well known for his White King, Blak Queen series, a visual pun on colour and sexuality that explored the tainted path of colonisation through a black feminine perspective. Since his earliest days as an art school graduate, Clinton Nain has established a significant profile in the critical debates of contemporary Australian art. Though his works have a naive and unfinished quality, they are aesthetically and conceptually intellectual and highly developed.