Lot 39

Nanda\Hobbs, Sydney
Private collection, Melbourne

James Drinkwater: Rungli Rungliot, Australian High Commission, Singapore, 6 - 28 February 2017

"Rungli Rungliot" translates as "thus far and no further" from the Sauria Paharia people of West Bengal. It is the name given to a Tasmanian Highland hut nestled in a sapling forest in the land of a thousand lakes. Sixty years ago, the original owners found their Eden. It was a place to be at peace with the world—they needed to search no more.

The surrounding landscape can be described as tough. It is a rugged beauty, weather-beaten by southerly Antarctic winds and blistering summer days since the last ice age.

In July 2016, artist James Drinkwater travelled to this place. He immersed himself in the trees next to the lake where he documented and created paintings and drawings night and day. These works became the source material for the major studio paintings in Drinkwater's Rungli Rungliot exhibition at the Australian High Commission in Singapore in February 2017." (Nanda\Hobbs, Sydney)

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