Ginger Riley. (Signed by the artist and author)

Ryan, Judith

ISBN 10: 0724101942 / ISBN 13: 9780724101948

Published by National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1997

About this Item

29 cm. 104 pp. with very many colour illustrations. Illustrated card covers with flaps. A fine copy. * Signed by the artist and the author on the title page, dated 17. 7. 1997.

Seller Inventory # 080542

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Ginger Riley. (Signed by the artist and author)
• Publisher: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0724101942
• ISBN 13: 9780724101948
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Art - Australian

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Synopsis

Painting phenomenon Ginger Riley Munduwalawala, one of Australia's most important living Aboriginal artists, creates "bold and free works... that have a touch of madness, " says expert Judith Ryan. Winner of the National Aboriginal Art Award and the Alice Prize which involved a series of commissions for the Australian Embassy in Beijing, he went to London in the early 1990's. On seeing Picasso and van Gogh at the Tate, he decided to start signing his paintings and others followed. An abstract artist, his visual icons are, however, rooted in the ancient iconography of the mother country -- "mythic space, a mindscape with landscapes... encompassing fresh water, salt water, land and sky from different viewpoints from above and inside with paints that are mixed, layered and flung together in bizarre combinations, decorative or spare..." (National Gallery of Victoria)