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Macassan sail 2020

Accession No.
2022.216
Date Created
2020
Gallery location
Not on public display
Department
Indigenous Australian Art
Dimensions A
233 x 400cm
Media Category
Sculpture
Medium
Stitched boat canopy and work shirt, wooden turtle-hunting harpoons
Credit Line
Purchased 2022 with funds from Pamela Barnett through the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Foundation

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© Gunybi Ganambarr

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Stories featuring this object

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

Yolngu/Macassan Project

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An etching of the ocean into a shiny metal surface -- a detailed view of a larger artwork.
APT10

Djirrit: A Macassan sail dhawu

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A colourful abstract artwork by First Nations artist Naomi Hobson, painted using traditional techniques.
GONE FISHING

ALONG THE SHORELINE

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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

Feature image: John Citizen’s Portrait of Eddie Mabo (After Mike Kelley's "Booth's Puddle" 1985, from Plato's Cave, Rothko's Chapel, Lincoln's Profile) No2 1996, installed for ‘Gone Fishing’, GOMA, November 2023 / © The Estate of Gordon Bennett / Photograph: J Ruckli, QAGOMA

‘Gone Fishing’

May 2023 - Jan 2024

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