Damien Shen is a South Australian man of Ngarrindjeri and Chinese descent. As an artist he draws on both of these powerful cultural influences to create works of intense personal meaning.

Gwoya Jungarai, or ‘One Pound Jimmy’ as he was known, was an Australian Anmatyerr man from Central Australia. Jungarai’s relatives were killed in the Coniston Massacre in the Northern Territory in 1928. In 1950, Jungarai was the first named Aboriginal person to appear on an Australian stamp and was the inspiration for the Australian two dollar coin designed by Ainslie Roberts.

In 'One Pound Jimmy', Shen contributes to the many likenesses of Jungarai, canonizing him alongside contemporary Aboriginal Australian artist Tony Albert. The 'One Pound Jimmy' lithograph was inspired by a Tony Albert installation at the ‘My Country’ Exhibition at the GOMA in 2013. The initial sketch of the three dimensional relief was the first time that Shen had drawn in over 10 years and acted as the starting point for his flourishing artistic practice.