Les Termitieres de Tanami and Musing
        on Monet
        and Mabo, 

        
1992
        - 1993


      
 


      
Installation in the
      Northern Territory Museum of Arts and Sciences, Darwin,1993


      


      
Tanami Termite Mounds, 1992 - 93







      
 

      

        

          

            
'Les Termitieres de
            Tanami and Musing on Monet and Mabo' 1992 -1993

            
 

            
Uses images of termite
            mounds from the Tanami Desert. Connecting with Monet's series
            of haystack paintings these works offer a number of readings.
            The fecundity of the haystack / mound and the underpinning of
            this image with the micro-world of the spinafex harvesting ants
            with cryptic messages in the twigs and stones opens further dialogue.
            The thong invites the viewer to step out of one frame into another.
            References to the transience of pairing / parting and the use
            of land is evident.

            


            ' The awesome mountains and panoramas have been exchanged
            for the micro world of spinifex-harvesting ants and the cryptic
            messages of twigs and markings scattered like oracle bones on
            the red sand.'



            John
            Neylon essay
            for 'Inland' exhibition 1993, Museum and Art Galleries
            of the Northern Territory, Darwin and Alice Springs.

            
 

            
'Yet for all their
            referential diversity the works are thoroughly grounded in a
            sense of place that is undeniably Australian. The thong announces
            the ground it has walked on; the found objects familarises the
            desert experience, the photos, drawings and text speak of close
            scrutiny.'

            
Dawn Mendam
            curator
            of 'Inland' exhibition, Darwin, October 1993
          
        
      

      

          

            

              


              
oil on board, photo, w/colour and
found thong, 77 x 57cm, 1992/93
            
            
 
 
            

              


              
oil on board, photo, w/colour and
found thong, 77 x 57cm, 1992/93
            
          
        



      
 


      
 


      
 


      
 


      

        

          

            
 

            
oil on board, photo, w/colour and
found thong, 77 x 57cm, 1992/93
          
          
 
 
          

            
 

            
oil on board, photo, w/colour and
found thong, 77 x 57cm, 1992/93
          
          
 
 
          

            
 

            
oil on board, photo, w/colour and
found thong, 77 x 57cm, 1992/93
          
        
      


      
 


      


      


      


      
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