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MY HOMELESS COUNTRY 2018-19

Accession No.
2020.389
Date Created
2018-19
Gallery location
Not on public display
Department
Indigenous Australian Art
Dimensions A
34.5 x 54cm (comp.); 58 x 64.5 x 26.5cm (overall)
Media Category
Painting
Secondary Media Category
synthetic polymer paint
Medium
Synthetic polymer paint and marker pen on woven polypropylene bag
Place Created
Mparntwe (Alice Springs), NT
Credit Line
Purchased 2020 with funds from the Estate of Jessica Ellis through the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Foundation

MY HOMELESS COUNTRY speaks directly to the sense of loss felt by many of the artists who have been dispossessed from their traditional lands and left without a home.

Using a cheap nylon moving or storage bag, artist Reinhold Inkamala paints a vibrant landscape on one side, and words of urgent protest on the other. The cheap nylon bag, commonly associated with migrant and homeless populations, is a symbol of displacement and hardship. Inkamala’s muted pastel landscape is punctuated by two red-tailed black cockatoos flying across sky. Reinhold frequently illustrates birds in his landscapes, creating a sense of life and narrative as they traverse Tjuritja (West MacDonnell Ranges).
 

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© Reinhold Inkamala/Copyright Agency

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Exhibitions featuring this object

Patrick Tjungurrayi / Pintupi/Kukatja people / Australia c.1940–2017 / Untitled (Ngaru) (detail) 2009 / Purchased 2020. Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Foundation / © Estate of Patrick Tjungurrayi/Licensed by Aboriginal Artists Agency

‘North by North-West’

Feb 2023 - Sep 2024

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