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Strange Scribblings, Central Australian Dunes
Retail Price: A$5000
Dimensions: 68cm x 128cm (H x W)
Statement: The weird, the monstrous, the strange scribblings of nature learning how to write (Marcus Clarke)
Photographer: Dragon Papillon
Guluu
Retail Price: A$4500
Dimensions: 167 x 143cm (H x W)
Statement: I commissioned Keyna Wilkins to compose music of the magpie and this quilt of a magpie carolling at dawn is my response to her work. The aboriginal story of magpies lifting up the covering from the earth to reveal the sun suggests hope after Covid.
Earth, Sky, Water
Retail Price: NFS
Dimensions: 193cm x 203.5cmH x W)
Statement: Commissioned by Ben Quilty. Views from above, below and beside. Tectonism creates the rough grid, a river runs through it. Above are the Seven Sisters (Pleiades) and Wati Nyiru (Orion’s Belt) of the aboriginal story.
Photographer: Dragon Papillon