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Back Page 2024

Artwork Back Page this artwork made of Twisted and knotted synthetic yarn
Accession No.
2024.306
Date Created
2024
Gallery location
On display in QAG Gallery 3
Department
Pacific Art
Dimensions A
157.5 x 116.5cm
Media Category
Textile
Medium
Twisted and knotted synthetic yarn
Place Created
Jiwaka
Credit Line
Purchased 2024 with funds from David Thomas AM through the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Foundation

Worked in a sombre palette of grey, black and dark green, Alison Wel's textile work references the way in which the people of her remote village in the mountains of Simbu Province in Papua New Guinea are denigrated by neighbouring tribes. Knotted across the top of the piece is its title, ‘BACK PAGE’, a slang term used in and around the township of Kundiawa to describe the remoteness of Wel's village, and, by extension, the supposed ‘backwardness’ of its inhabitants.

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