Lot 113

In overall good condition, a hole approximately 2cm long and 0.5cm wide is seen on the lop left, leaving the stretcher beam visible. The works reverse is covered with cotton. Work is stretched with no additional framing.


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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

The Seventies' Exhibition: Selected Paintings from the National Australia Bank Collection 'Modern Art of the Seventies', Caulfield Arts Complex, Melbourne, 18 January - 11 February 1990, cat. no. 21

Lindsay, R. (ed.), The Seventies: Australian Paintings and Tapestries From the Collection of National Australia Bank, The National Bank of Australasia, Melbourne, 1982, pl. 86, p. 99 (illus.)
"As I hatched away with my pen recording memories, sewing together fragments, my life pieced together as the work came together."
"The idea for some of my work came from my desire to surround myself with tree trunks - to actually be inside my forest. For most of 1976 I was isolated in a northern suburb of Darwin - desolate was too kind a word for it - ugly rows of cyclone damaged houses - all I had to enjoy was a small forest of palms like totems in green and gold." (Artist's Statement, p. 99)