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ALISON ANDERSON 2021: A SOLO EXHIBITION

Past exhibition
21 May - 17 June 2021
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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Alison Anderson, The secret at the desert's heart, 2020

Alison Anderson Australian, Luritja, b. 1958

The secret at the desert's heart, 2020
Acrylic on Linen
140 x 100 cm
840739
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In this work I reflect on the richness of traditional desert culture and my homeland in the country around Papunya, the community where I witnessed the indigenous painting movement’s first...
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In this work I reflect on the richness of traditional desert culture and my homeland in the country around Papunya, the community where I witnessed the indigenous painting movement’s first beginnings: here I paint the landscape and the sacred traditions it contains and shelters - secrets that can be hinted at but never disclosed to outsiders. This energy of secrecy lies in every square of the work: the cells are like portals, doors which hint at what lies beneath the surface of the earth and beyond the reach of the onlooking eye
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