Lot 25

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The Victorian Tapestry Workshop, Melbourne (tapestry no. 80/6)
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

Lindsay, R. (ed.), The Seventies: Australian Paintings and Tapestries From the Collection of National Australia Bank, The National Bank of Australasia, Melbourne, 1982, p. 124 (illus.)

Walker, S., Artists' Tapestries From Australia 1976-2005, The Beagle Press, Sydney, 2007, p. 92 (illus.)

Cotte, S., Art in the Making: Mirka Mora's Techniques and Materials, and Their Meaning in Conservation, University of Melbourne Dissertation, Melbourne, September 2016, p. 184
"For the National Bank I wanted to mix the wool with silver and silk and gold. So I wasn't very popular because it became more expensive, but it was made." (Mirka Mora, 1984)
In a letter from Sue Walker (then director of the Victorian Tapestry Workshop) to C. Abbott (from the National Bank of Australia) in 1980, she reaffirms "Mirka has been to the workshop to discuss the design with the weavers and we are all greatly excited by the rich and decorative possibilities it presents for tapestry (…) after talking with Mr. Mora about the cost of this tapestry we realise that the next tapestry will need to be of a less complex nature".