Trade delivers people #2
1989-1993

Gallery location
Not on display
 

About this work

This installation by Narelle Jubelin includes found objects, hand-stitched petit point embroideries and four Egyptian earthenware pots from the NGV’s antiquities collection. Together, this seemingly disparate group suggests a complex web of possible narratives related to global and national histories. Jubelin’s materials are deliberately dislocated from their points of origin in a way that encourages alternative views of the histories of modernism, colonisation, trade and tourism. The work prompts a consideration of the often unexpected journeys that images and objects make throughout time and space.

Artwork Details

Medium
cotton petit point, porcelain buttons, string, cotton lace, copper sheet, copper hanging devices, satin mount, wood frames, four pre-dynastic Egyptian earthenware pots from the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria
Measurements
82.2 × 690.0 × 21.0 cm (installation)
Place/s of Execution
Sydney, New South Wales
Inscription
(a) inscribed in fibre-tipped pen on reverse c.: 'Double self / portrait'
inscribed in fibre-tipped pen on reverse l.r.: Narelle Jubelin / 1993.
(b) inscribed in fibre-tipped pen on reverse u.c.: 'Rendition of page 151 bookplate from / "Rebels and Precursors" 1981 Richard Haese.'
inscribed in fibre-tipped pen on reverse c.: Narelle Jubelin / 1993.
(c) inscribed in fibre-tipped pen on reverse l.r.: Narelle Jubelin / 1993.
inscribed in fibre-tipped pen on reverse u.c.: "Rendition Tiwi Cloth from the / collection of Diana Wood Conway.'
(d) inscribed in fibre-tipped pen on reverse l.r.: Narelle Jubelin / 1993.
inscribed in fibre-tipped pen on reverse c.: 'Rendition contents plate of the annual bulletin of the National Gallery of Victoria 1967-68' / (note cover illustration was / 'Coming South' by Tom Roberts)'
Accession Number
A10.a-d-1993
Department
Contemporary Art
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1993
© Narelle Jubelin
Gallery location
Not on display