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Artwork bloom this artwork made of Pigment, pastel and synthetic polymer paint on canvas, created in 2009-01-01
Accession No.
2011.003
Date Created
2009
Gallery location
Not on public display
Department
Indigenous Australian Art
Dimensions A
219 x 147cm
Media Category
Painting
Secondary Media Category
pastel
Medium
Pigment, pastel and synthetic polymer paint on canvas
Place Created
Brisbane
Credit Line
The James C. Sourris AM Collection.
Gift of James C. Sourris AM through the Queensland Art Gallery Foundation 2011. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program

On 11 March 2009, the multi-purpose container ship MV Pacific Adventurer caused Queensland’s largest oil spill when it travelled directly through the path of Cyclone Hamish. As a result, 30 tonnes of fuel oil, 30 tonnes of other fuel and 31 shipping containers containing 620 tonnes of ammonium nitrate spilled into the Coral Sea, north of Moreton Bay, off the coast of south-east Queensland.

In this painting, Watson depicts an aerial view of coastal south-east Queensland where the spill occurred. Along the Sunshine Coast, towards northern Moreton Bay and surrounding Mulgumpin (Moreton Island), the artist has sullied the water in murky shades of black, representing the colossal slick of oil that spoiled the sea and shores. 
 

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Stories featuring this object

An installation view that appears as a large midden of white shells piled in front of a white gallery wall, in a corner.
GONE FISHING

SEA RIGHTS: Politics, lore and custom

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Detail view of a textile work with plants and the Brisbane river embroidered onto it
BRISBANE IN PICTURES

Brisbane: NOW

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Exhibitions featuring this object

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

A view of ‘mudunama kundana wandaraba jarribirri: Judy Watson’, featuring walama 2000 (Courtesy: The artist, Milani Gallery and UAP Brisbane) installed on the QAG Watermall, with moreton bay rivers, australian temperature chart, freshwater mussels, net, spectrogram 2022 at back left, QAG, 14 March 2024 / © Judy Watson / Photograph: C Callistemon

‘mudunama kundana wandaraba jarribirri: Judy Watson’

Mar 2024 - Aug 2024

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