ROSELLA NAMOK - WET SEASON GO OVER
ROSELLA NAMOK
WET SEASON GO OVER, 2000
174 x 120 cm
Synthetic Polymer Paint on Canvas
REGION
Lockhart River, QLD
PROVENANCE
Hogarth Galleries, NSW
Eva Breuer, NSW
Private Collection, New Zealand
Cooee Art Leven, NSW
accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Hogarth Galleries
STORY
When the wet season goes over ... the place gets so dry and everyone's going to burn all the grass now ... well it's hot now ... the grass grown so high from the wet season ... when they go burn all the grass the place gets so hot ... everyone wants to go out swim in the river then." Rosella Namok
Rosella Namok's paintings engage traditional themes but she explores them with a modern sensibility in her own distinctive style. She emerged as a member of the Lockhart River ‘Art Gang’ that burst onto the contemporary art scene in the late 1990s. Her symbols can represent both figurative and abstract forms without having to demarcate between the two. They are expressions of a way of life in Lockhart River where ancestral heritage is part of everyday life, and tradition finds form in the modern.
EXHIBITED
Exhibited 'Rosella Namok', Hogarth Galleries, 2000, Cat. no. 12
ARTIST PROFILE
