Untitled
1988
Medium
coloured pencils on paper
Measurements
26.0 × 37.2 cm irreg. (image) 29.7 × 41.8 cm (sheet)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased through The Art Foundation of Victoria, 1991
© The Estate of Coonduru Thompson
Gallery location
Gallery 1
Ground Level, NGV Australia
About this work
The blend of abstracted and figurative elements in these quaint yet evocative drawings by Badjingga Mona Smiler, Coonduru Thompson and Maisie Lissan celebrate the power of memory and Country. The gestural marks in pencil and pastel construct these artists’ Country with a gleaming lightness, as if land formations float in space. Through intimate imaginings of the sky, land, waterways, animals and community in situ, these works illustrate the expansiveness of kinship and knowledge systems.
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
Fitzroy Crossing, Western Australia
Inscription
inscribed in pencil on reverse u.l.: 9
inscribed in pencil on reverse l.c.: Coonduru Thompson. / No 9.
Accession Number
O.67-1991
Department
First Nations Australia
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