CreatorTony ColeingBruce LatimerTitleCooked Crab at Struggle Town or To Do With a ViewDate1975MediumTen colour silkscreen print and hand-colouring on silver paperDimensionsH. 563mm x W. 763mmArtist Statement‘Cooked Crab at Struggle Town or To Do With a View’ (1975) depicts Bruce Latimer visiting Tony Coleing during the Christmas holidays. Bruce rode his Ducati motorbike all the way from Sydney, seen in the snake’s mouth once he reached his destination. The Sydney Harbour Bridge is seen on the top left and Trial Bay Goal on the top right. Santa Claus disappears over the horizon, the cooked crab is in the bottom left corner and Coleing’s beloved studio with the veranda built around a tree is on the right.
‘Cooked Crab at Struggle Town or To Do With a View’ (1975) is one of Coleing’s early collaborative artworks. Over the next 40 years, Coleing collaborated with other artists, both here and overseas, creating prints, drawings, paintings, films, performance art and, more recently, digital artworks.Accession NumberG2024.9.6Credit LineDonated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program by Tony Coleing and Shayne HigsonAccess AdviceFor research purposes only. No reproduction without permission of Yarrila Arts and Museum.
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Print depicting a snake in a landscape with balcony in the right foreground and ocean in the background. Ten colour silkscreen print and hand-colouring on silver paper; edition 9/35.
Bruce Latimer, Cooked Crab at Struggle Town or To Do With a View (1975). Coffs Collections, accessed 04/07/2026, https://coffs.recollect.net.au/nodes/view/79879
