Click to enlarge1954 – 2022
- Region
- South-East Australia
- Community
- Ngarrindjeri
- Language group
- Ngarrindjeri; Tanganekald
Exposed, 2019
oil on Belgian linen
102 cm x 76 cm
$4,200
- Provenance
- Direct from artist, SA Cooee Aboriginal Art Gallery, NSW
- Artwork story
- In this work the artist has portrayed a poor Irish immigrant naked and in supplication. It suggests that she has abandoned ‘colonial’ beliefs, assumptions, worries and desires in order to embrace the natural world in her adopted country. Yet she is planting introduced food plants and flowers. The emus and kangaroos are eating her food plants and the cow is eating her flowers. The image poses a question. Is she working with or against nature? Her intentions may be pure, but she is made naked by her failed intentions.