Seam
2005

Julie Gough

Gallery location: Not on display

About this work

‘These floating necklace forms work for me as life preservers, that is, operating perhaps as memory retainers for people on the edge. The wood and the pumice necklaces – Drift and Lifebearer seem very much to be about returning home (to Tasmania) sometime. I feel I can (in my mind’s eye) walk into Townsville beach with these wrapped around me and float into the sea and wash up back in north-east Tasmania. The coal necklace – Seam – is like the weighty lifeblood of ancestry – the coal black materiality of the earth that I haven’t answered or perhaps recognised.’
– Julie Gough, 2005

Artwork Details

Medium

coal, nylon thread, driftwood

Measurements

(a-c) 138.0 × 90.0 × 37.5 cm (installation)

Place/s of Execution

Townsville, Queensland

Accession Number

2005.403.a-c

Department

First Nations Australia

Credit Line

National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Presented by Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, 2005
© Julie Gough
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of The Vizard Foundation

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Seam
2005

Julie Gough