In the Hope & Peaceseries, eminent Indigenous academic, activist and a key commentator on the work of Brook Andrew, Professor Marcia Langton, stated:
Elements of Wiradjuri visual and spoken language intertwine to empower Andrew’sHope & Peaceseries of screenprints. Here slick advertising brands of cigarette packaging, chewing tobacco and chewing gum explode incongruously out of Wiradjuri texts and optical geometry in a dynamic echo of Russian Constructivism. The series unpacks contemporary global advertising by disclosing the way in which capitalist multinational corporations seduce consumers into buying the ultimate in First World consumer goods—cigarettes—through disingenuous trademarks such as ‘Peace & Hope’ and ‘Frontier Lights’. Andrew also teases out the repercussions of brand names, including BlackBlack (high technical excellent flavour) and Black & White Special Cut, which serve to commercialise and glamorise at the same time as obfuscating difference.
