Pot: Eeritja (Eagles) 1997

HERMANNSBURG POTTERS - Pottery workshop
HUDSON, Noreen Ngala - Potter

Artwork Pot: Eeritja (Eagles) this artwork made of Earthenware, hand-built terracotta clay with underglaze colours and applied decoration, created in 1997-01-01

Accession No.: 2005.014a-b
Date Created: 1997
Gallery location: On display in GOMA MFS Cabinet
Department: Indigenous Australian Art
Dimensions A: 41.5 x 38cm (diam.) (complete); pot: 31 x 38cm (diam.); lid: 11 x 13cm
Media Category: Ceramic
Secondary Media Category: earthenware
Medium: Earthenware, hand-built terracotta clay with underglaze colours and applied decoration
Place Created: Hermannsburg, NT
Credit Line: Gift of Daphne Morgan through the Queensland Art Gallery Foundation 2005

Many Hermannsburg pots feature exotic animals such as this family of North American bald eagles (Haliaeetus leucocephalus), perched on their nest in a dead tree, juxtaposed with an Arrernte Central Desert landscape. Birds are Noreen Hudson's favourite subject:

When I am painting the pot I think about birds everyday — eagles, magpies, white and red and pink parrots — allacockie (all the cockies). Sometimes I copy birds from that big book and sometimes I do it in my mind.

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Detail, Pot: Eeritja (Eagles) 1997 HUDSON, Noreen Ngala

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Pot: Eeritja (Eagles) 1997