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Water storage pot - man's face 2013

Accession No.
2015.034
Date Created
2013
Gallery location
Not on public display
Department
Pacific Art
Dimensions A
37.9 x 39.5 x 41cm
Media Category
Ceramic
Secondary Media Category
earthenware
Medium
Hand-thrown earthenware with incised decoration and beeswax
Place Created
Papua New Guinea
Credit Line
Purchased 2015. Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Foundation

Gole has created only one pot with a male face: a portrait of the current Oro Province Governor Gary Juffa, who lived with the Gole family in Port Moresby during his school years. The work has been fired in a kiln, rather than the low-temperature methods of the village, while the addition of sawdust and seaweed during firing has given the work a smoky grey-brown finish that has become Gole’s signature.

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Four earthenware works, including three small figures and one large round pot with a face design applied.
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Joyce Mary Arasepa Gole OL (Mary Gole)

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Gole's Water storage pots

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Exhibitions featuring this object

A view of works installed for 'No. 1 Neighbour', QAG, October 2016 / © The artists / Photograph: N Harth, QAGOMA

‘No. 1 Neighbour’

Oct 2016 - Jan 2017

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

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Dec 2021 - Apr 2022

Rosanna Raymond performs within ’sis: Pacific Art 1980–2023’, pictured here with works by Jaki-ed weavers, GOMA, August 2023 / Collection: QAGOMA / © The artists / Photograph: C Callistemon, QAGOMA

‘sis: Pacific Art 1980–2023’

Aug 2023 - Sep 2024

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