MARILYN TALEO HAVINI | 'Tailings wall, Panguna' | Oil on canvas

"Tailings are a major legacy of the Panguna mine in Bougainville, with nearly a billion tonnes of mining waste released directly into local rivers between 1972 and 1989. Today large walls of the fine-grained waste material left over after the valuable minerals have been extracted from ore have become a landscape feature in themselves and are prospected by landowners for ore."

MARILYN TALEO HAVINI | 'Tailings wall, Panguna' | 2023 | Oil on canvas | H 97 x W 89 mm