This stamp issue celebrates creative culture on Cocos (Keeling) Islands. The Big Barge Art Centre, housed in a restored former working barge, is a local hub for fostering traditional and non-traditional art-making.
Two of the centre’s recent community projects are Art Adrift and Art Afloat, the works of which express a vital connection with place, responding to the ebb and flow of life on the islands. In the long tradition of beachcombing, the artists have gleaned their materials from the shoreline, refashioning the flotsam to give it new meaning.
While the artworks reflect the rhythms of island life – boats and sea floats, for example – they also respond to the pressing environmental problem of detritus borne across the waters on ocean currents.
Technical specifications
- Issue date
- 18 October 2016
- Issue withdrawal date
- 30 April 2017
- Denominations
- 2 x $1, 2 x $2. Se-tenant pairs
- Stamp design
- Lisa Christensen, Tree Branches Design
- Photography
- Cara Ratajczak
- Product design
- Lisa Christensen, Tree Branches Design
- Printer
- Unknown
- Paper - gummed
- Tullis Russell Red Phosphate
- Printing process
- Offset lithography
- Stamp size
- 37.5mm x 26mm
- Minisheet size
- 135mm x 80mm
- Perforations
- 13.86 x 14.6
- Sheet layout
- Module of 50
- FDI postmark
- Cocos (Keeling) Islands WA 6799
- FDI withdrawal date
- 15 November 2016
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