Deeper
2020
- Medium
- synthetic polymer paint on canvas
- Measurements
- (208.0 × 210.0 cm)
- Place/s of Execution
- Coen, Queensland
- Accession Number
- 2021.784
- Department
- First Nations Australia
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased with funds donated by Jo Horgan and MECCA Brands, 2021
© Naomi Hobson - Gallery location
- Gallery 3
Ground Level, NGV Australia - About this work
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Naomi Hobson is a Kaantju/Umpila artist born in 1978 at Coen, Cape York, where she has lived all her life, near where her grandparents were born. Hobson’s family have been active in Indigenous land rights and reform movements, and Hobson continues her family’s tradition of political and social engagement through her art. Deeper was inspired, in part, by the 2020 Black Lives Matter movement. The use of the colour red is an expression of emotion in response to the death of George Floyd.