cloud (portfolio) 2000

RILEY, Michael - Creator

Artwork cloud (portfolio) this artwork made of Inkjet print on banner paper, created in 2000-01-01

The second photograph in Michael Riley's 'cloud (portfolio)' depicting a boomerang.

The third photograph in Michael Riley's 'cloud (portfolio)' depicting a bird's wing.

The fourth photograph in Michael Riley's 'cloud (portfolio)' depicting a winged insect.

The fifth photograph in Michael Riley's 'cloud (portfolio)' depicting the wings of a statue.

The sixth photograph in Michael Riley's 'cloud (portfolio)' depicting the wings of a statue.

The seventh photograph in Michael Riley's 'cloud (portfolio)' depicting a bird's wing.

The eighth photograph in Michael Riley's 'cloud (portfolio)' depicting a bird's feather

The nineth photograph in Michael Riley's 'cloud (portfolio)' depicting a bird's wing.

The tenth photograph in Michael Riley's 'cloud (portfolio)' depicting a bible.

Accession No.: 2002.177.001-010
Date Created: 2000
Gallery location: Not on public display
Department: Indigenous Australian Art
Dimensions A: Ten sheets: .001: 91.8 x 129.7cm; .002: 91.8 x 129.8cm; .003: 91.8 x 130.3cm; .004: 91.9 x 129.8cm; .005: 91.9 x 130.1cm; .006: 91.8 x 130.1cm; .007: 91.8 x 129.9cm; .008: 91.7 x 130.4cm; .009: 92 x 130.1cm; .010: 92.1 x 126.4cm
Edition: ed. 1/10
Media Category: Print
Secondary Media Category: inkjet
Medium: Inkjet print on banner paper
Place Created: Sydney, NSW
Credit Line: Purchased 2002

Michael Riley was a highly political Indigenous artist, yet his work is enigmatic rather than didactic. In cloud, the ten panels each depict a single motif against a summer sky. The images combine meanings from Indigenous cultures with general, more intuitive associations. For instance, a feather is included and the motif of wings repeats; Riley was a Wiradjuri man, from central western New South Wales, and in his language the word ‘gawurra’ is used for both wing and feather. In contrast, the ‘imported’ symbols of a cow and funerary statue seem strange and unnatural.

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