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Pot: Eeritja (Eagles) 1997

Artwork Pot: Eeritja (Eagles) this artwork made of Earthenware, hand-built terracotta clay with underglaze colours and applied decoration, created in 1997-01-01
Accession No.
2005.014a-b
Date Created
1997
Gallery location
On display in GOMA MFS Cabinet
Department
Indigenous Australian Art
Dimensions A
41.5 x 38cm (diam.) (complete); pot: 31 x 38cm (diam.); lid: 11 x 13cm
Media Category
Ceramic
Secondary Media Category
earthenware
Medium
Earthenware, hand-built terracotta clay with underglaze colours and applied decoration
Place Created
Hermannsburg, NT
Credit Line
Gift of Daphne Morgan through the Queensland Art Gallery Foundation 2005

Many Hermannsburg pots feature exotic animals such as this family of North American bald eagles (Haliaeetus leucocephalus), perched on their nest in a dead tree, juxtaposed with an Arrernte Central Desert landscape. Birds are Noreen Hudson's favourite subject:

When I am painting the pot I think about birds everyday — eagles, magpies, white and red and pink parrots — allacockie (all the cockies). Sometimes I copy birds from that big book and sometimes I do it in my mind.
 

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© Noreen Ngala Hudson

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Three earthenware pots by with eagles and owls painted on them.
THE HERMANNSBURG SCHOOL

QAGOMA COLLECTION: Hermannsburg Potters

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Exhibitions featuring this object

A view of Arthur Koo-ekka Pambegan Jr's Flying Fox Story Place 2002–03, installed at the entrance to 'My Country', GOMA, July 2013 / © Estate of the artist / Photograph: M Sherwood, QAGOMA

‘My Country’

Jun 2013 - Oct 2013

Irene Mbitjana Entata / Arrernte/Luritja people / Australia NT 1946–2014 / Albert and Rex painting (detail) 2003 / Purchased 2003. Queensland Art Gallery Foundation / © Irene Mbitjana Entata

‘Namatjira to Now’

Oct 2008 - Feb 2009

Works from Rona Rubuntja's 'Bush tucker' series 2009 / © Rona Rubuntja/Copyright Agency / Photograph: N Harth, QAGOMA

'Ingkwia Tjaiya, Lyaartinya Tjaiya (Old Way, New Way)'

May 2025 - Nov 2025

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