Lot 33

Work is in very good condition. There is some fading present, however consistent with age and display.


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The Victorian Tapestry Workshop, Melbourne (tapestry no. 79/2)
The National Australia Bank Art Collection

The Seventies: Australian Paintings and Tapestries From the Collection of National Australia Bank, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 15 October - 28 November 1982

"Makin tapestry unveiled", The Sun, 3 August 1979, p. 21

Lindsay, R. (ed.), The Seventies: Australian Paintings and Tapestries From the Collection of National Australia Bank, The National Bank of Australasia, Melbourne, 1982, p. 123 (illus.)
"The design for Port Campbell 1979, like Heidelberg '76, shows Makin's interest in the basic structural forms of the landscape. The broad areas of the landscape are energised by the jewels of impasto detailing and contained within a skeleton of thick schematised lines."
(excerpt, p. 123)

Walker, S., Artists' Tapestries From Australia 1976-2005, The Beagle Press, Sydney, 2007, p. 90 (illus.)

RELATED WORK:
Port Campbell 1979, oil on linen, 167 x 212.5cm