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Untitled 2014

Accession No.
2015.142
Date Created
2014
Gallery location
Not on public display
Department
Indigenous Australian Art
Dimensions A
183 x 242cm
Media Category
Painting
Secondary Media Category
synthetic polymer paint
Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on Belgian linen
Place Created
Kiwirrkura, WA
Credit Line
The James C. Sourris AM Collection.
Purchased 2015 with funds from James C. Sourris AM through the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Foundation

The shimmering optical field of Yukultji Napangati’s Untitled 2014 commands the eye. Her repetitive undulating lines in a reduced colour palette are interrupted by a domed form in the lower centre referencing Yunala, a rock hole site where water collects among the sandhills to the west of the Kiwirrkura community in Western Australia. During ancestral times, a group of women camped beside the rock hole at Yunala, digging for the edible roots of the bush banana (Marsdenia australis), also known as yunala.

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Anida Yoeu Ali / Cambodia/USA b.1974 / The Buddhist Bug, Into the Night (still) (detail) 2015 / A project of Studio Revolt. Concept and performance: Anida Yoeu Ali; Video: Masahiro Sugano / Commissioned for APT8. The Kenneth and Yasuko Myer Collection of Contemporary Asian Art. Purchased 2015 with funds from Michael Sidney Myer through the QAGOMA Foundation / Collection: QAGOMA / © Anida Yoeu Ali

‘The 8th Asia Pacific Triennial’

Nov 2015 - Apr 2016

Ross Manning’s Spectra XIII 2017, installed for ’Courage and Beauty’, GOMA, September 2021 / The James C. Sourris AM Collection. Gift of James C. Sourris AM through the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Foundation 2023. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program / © Ross Manning / Photograph: J Ruckli, QAGOMA

‘Courage and Beauty’

Sep 2022 - Jun 2023

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