23/04/2026
Simon Normand’s incredible ‘Teaspoon Colony’
During the depth of the Covid 19 lockdowns, Simon Normand began collecting teaspoons… enamelled representations of a named place in Australia
As his collection grew, Normand began to examine the often gaping void between images portrayed and the historical reality as it applied to First Nations Australians.
Many of the featured regions and towns were sites of discrimination and dispossession at best, massacre at worst. He started producing art.
These teaspoons besides stirring sugar into tea were a means of possessing the land - as effective as any naming, mapping…
Teaspoon Cape Otway 180 x 60cm metal and glass mosaic
Teaspoon Lorne 280 x 60cm metal & glass mosaic
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The text is taken from a book ‘Capturing The Continent’ by Simon Normand
