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Mother and daughter's reunion
2014

Medium
etching

Measurements
49.2 × 39.6 cm (plate) 70.7 × 52.0 cm (sheet)

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, Victorian Foundation for Living Australian Artists, 2015
© Heather Koowootha, courtesy of Canopy Art Centre, Cairns

Gallery location
Not on display

Artwork Details

Place/s of Execution
Cairns, Queensland

Edition
ed. 2/35

Printing/Publishing
printed by Theo Tremblay, Editions Tremblay Print Workshop, Cairns

Inscription
inscribed in pencil l.l.: 2/35
inscribed in pencil l.c.: Mother and Daughter’s Reunion
inscribed in pencil l.r.: Heather Koowootha
chopmark l.r.: (…illeg.)

Accession Number
2015.7

Department
First Nations Australia

Physical description
Mother and daughter’s reunion is a work of harrowing intensity based on her mother’s stories of being stolen from her mother and an imagined reunion in Country.