Mirka Mora 'Ducks in a Row' minimalistAt the centre of Australias cultural life, Mirka Mora was a creative through and through. Charismatic, intuitive and infinitely imaginative, she embodied her art, leaving an inimitable legacy in her wake. In this drawing, Mora creates a vibrant scene rich in imagination and narrative. Clustered together, her cherubic creatures echo Eastern European fairy tales, angels and ancient mythology. They sit somewhere between sweet and sinister, suggesting
On the work’s verso
Alhalkere (made internationally famous in the work of Emily Kame Kngwarreye)
the whole antiquity of civilization”
A teenage prodigy turned iconoclast
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triple plate etching on paper
He was a finalist in the Art Gallery of New South Wales’s Archibald Prize in 1944 and won the Sir Arthur Street Award in 1968
Baird embraces the pleasure of restraint
Nolan possessed a commanding and distinctive visual voice
Scattered across and around the tree are the silhouettes of birds
South Australia’ is a striking
