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Macassan swords and long knives 2021

Accession No.
2021.281
Date Created
2021
Gallery location
Not on public display
Department
Indigenous Australian Art
Dimensions A
240 x 120cm
Media Category
Painting
Secondary Media Category
natural pigments
Medium
Natural pigments on wood
Place Created
Yirrkala, NT
Credit Line
Purchased 2021 with funds from Anne Best through the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Foundation

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© Dhuwarrwarr Marika

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A painting in natural pigments on bark in the style of artists from eastern Arnhem Land
TRANSITIONS

Eastern Arnhem Land

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Installation view of the APT10 Yolngu/Macassan Project, Gallery 4, QAG / Photograph: Natasha Harth
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Yolngu/Macassan Project

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Exhibitions featuring this object

A work on copper depicting silhouettes of people emerging from bamboo shoots. / Lee Paje / The Philippines b.1980 / The stories that weren’t told (detail) 2019 / Oil on copper mounted on wood / Purchased 2021 with funds from Terry and Mary Peabody and Mary-Jeanne Hutchinson through the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Foundation / Collection: QAGOMA / © Lee Paje

‘The 10th Asia Pacific Triennial’

Dec 2021 - Apr 2022

Anniebell Marrngamarrnga’s Yawkyawk (Female water spirit) pregnant with twins 2007, installed for ‘Transitions’, GOMA, February 2023 / © Anniebell Marrngamarrnga/Copyright Agency / Photograph: N Harth, QAGOMA

‘Transitions’

Aug 2022 - Jun 2023

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