Sinner Saint

165 x 165cm
acrylic on canvas

“Quoting from Malcom Turnbull’s national apology to child sexual abuse victims –

“The first thing I want to say is we love you and we believe you.”

This work sees a sketchy and shadowy Mother Teresa as a metaphor for religious institutions that protect their own over their victims. Exposure of organisations, still not policed as the general public are, that assure us that their long standing, endemic and systematic violation of minors is now in hand begs the question.
‘Do leopards really change their spots?’ ” – Rebecca Pierce