Big Storm comes we're Rocky Point, 2004

synthetic polymer paint on linen

106.5 x 175 cm

$7,000

Provenance: Lockhart River Art Centre, Lockhart River, Qld, Cat No. RNC20040326 Hogarth Galleries, Sydney, NSW Private Collection NSW
Artwork story: Rosella Namok emerged as a member of the Lockhart River Art Gang in the 1990s, pioneering a contemporary painting language grounded in Far North Queensland's changing skies, seas, and family rhythms. In Big Storm Comes, We're Rocky Point, she evokes the tropical tension just before a storm breaks - a theme resonant with both seasonal knowledge and emotional undercurrents. Rosella's vertical mark-making mimics rain sheeting across corrugated iron or mangrove trunks, while her muted greys and blue-blacks conjure heavy skies rolling in over the coastline. This work, while abstract in form, carries the lived texture of place - coastal life framed by salt spray, monsoon, and kin. Collectors have increasingly gravitated toward Rosella's practice for its distinctive fusion of landscape, weather, and social memory - an evolving voice in Indigenous art that speaks directly to a contemporary world without losing cultural depth.

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b. 1979

synthetic polymer paint on linen

106.5 x 175 cm

$7,000

Provenance: Lockhart River Art Centre, Lockhart River, Qld, Cat No. RNC20040326 Hogarth Galleries, Sydney, NSW Private Collection NSW
Artwork story: Rosella Namok emerged as a member of the Lockhart River Art Gang in the 1990s, pioneering a contemporary painting language grounded in Far North Queensland's changing skies, seas, and family rhythms. In Big Storm Comes, We're Rocky Point, she evokes the tropical tension just before a storm breaks - a theme resonant with both seasonal knowledge and emotional undercurrents. Rosella's vertical mark-making mimics rain sheeting across corrugated iron or mangrove trunks, while her muted greys and blue-blacks conjure heavy skies rolling in over the coastline. This work, while abstract in form, carries the lived texture of place - coastal life framed by salt spray, monsoon, and kin. Collectors have increasingly gravitated toward Rosella's practice for its distinctive fusion of landscape, weather, and social memory - an evolving voice in Indigenous art that speaks directly to a contemporary world without losing cultural depth.