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Maya

James BENNETT
Maya
 1993

Medium
screenprinted and hand dyed silk

Measurements
286.0 × 92.5 cm

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Anthony Knight, 2007

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Gallery location
Not on display

Artwork Details

Place/s of Execution
Melville Island, Northern Territory

Accession Number
2007.343

Department
Australian Fashion and Textiles

Physical description
Textile hanging, silk screen on silk featuring linked male figures and mermen drawn from Hindu and Buddhist imagery. Various texts and drawings taken from pages of the artist's diaries and notebooks and old letters to family and friends. The work has hemmed casings top and bottom (each 4 cm wide)

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