Pot: (Butterfly) 2002

HERMANNSBURG POTTERS - Pottery workshop
RONTJI, Lindy - Potter

Artwork Pot: (Butterfly) this artwork made of Earthenware, hand-built terracotta clay with underglaze colours and applied decoration, created in 2002-01-01

Accession No.: 2003.071a-b
Date Created: 2002
Gallery location: Not on public display
Department: Indigenous Australian Art
Dimensions A: 31.1 x 26.9cm (diam.) (complete); pot: 26.3 x 26.9cm (diam.); lid: 9 x 8.9 x 5.5cm
Media Category: Ceramic
Secondary Media Category: earthenware
Medium: Earthenware, hand-built terracotta clay with underglaze colours and applied decoration
Place Created: Hermannsburg Pottery Studio, Hermannsburg, NT
Credit Line: Purchased 2003 with funds from Margaret Mittelheuser AM through the Queensland Art Gallery Foundation

Butterflies and wild daisies are common subjects for Lindy Rontji. She admires the cooperative relationship between these two species, which work together to ensure each other's survival. Butterflies feed on daisy pollen, ensuring its proliferation. The spirit of sharing and mutual aid embodied in this relationship can be seen as a metaphor for bush life, in which cooperation is necessary for survival.

Detail, Pot: (Butterfly) 2002 RONTJI, Lindy

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