Item - Yirralalem

ID UNSW PR 2011/1039 (116740)
Artist Carole HAPKE (1953 - )
Title Yirralalem
Alternate Titles (part of the Waringarri Suite)
Category Print
Medium colour etching
Materials coloured inks, paper support
Edition Number 34/50
Measurements (cms)  
  Height 25.00
  Width 25.00
  Depth 0.00
  Other 0.00
Marks/Inscriptions  
  Location signed lower right beneath image; embossed studio mark in lower right corner
  Signed signed in pencil: C Hapke
Produced  
  When 2008
  Where Australia, NT, Darwin, Northern Editions Printmaking Studio
Style Abstract
Subject Landmap
Credit Line Purchased 2011
Description/Remarks    Image depicts a grey and white sinuous line travelling from the lower left edge to the centre of the print, bulging in a large curve before continuing to the lower right corner of the print; each side of the line appears textured or scraped against an overall red-coloured ground. From Waringarri Aboriginal Arts - "Print Decsription: I am guardian for Yirralalem - the traditional country belonging to my mother. Curving through a rocky ridge at Yirralalem is a creek called Warwoolem. This is frill neck lizard (gerrdan) country made during the Dreamtime. At the centre of the image in the curved part of the creek is a freshwater spring. The textured markings represent the marks made by Gerrdan as he clawed at the hillside."
Exhibition History Kimberley Ink: the Waringarri Suite and selected new etchings Northern Editions Gallery, Darwin; and thence University of Wollongong; Heritage House Cultural Centre, South Perth (16/08/2008 - 00/04/2009)
Prints Charming: introducing The Waringarri Suite Booker-Lowe Gallery, Houston, Texas, USA (21/01/2010 - 18/03/2010)
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