Police Rock Hole

Details

Artist

Paddy Bedford

Title

Police Rock Hole

Year

2002

Medium

ochres and pigment with acrylic binder on belgian linen

Size

122 x 135 cm

Details

verso: 'POLICE ROCKHOLE PB 8 2002-137. PADDY BEDFORD. JIRRAWUN A.A.C. GRANT PIRRIE EXHIBITION. PB' on the reverse, with inscription 'PB014 PB R.A.G.N.S.W.' on the stretcher

Stock Number

290000

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Provenance

Private collection, Vancouver, Canada

Christies, London, December 16th 2008, Lot 78

Exhibited

''Significant Paintings'', GRANTPIRRIE, Sydney, 2002 ('This body of work, as always, reflects the land and its spirits, both good and the bad. His land is drenched in the atrocities of white settlement and the history of his own people. He tells the stories of massacres and dreamings, of caryards and emus. There is a certain urgency of story telling apparent in the vigorous brush strokes, as though he is compelled to speak', G. Serisier in the exhibition catalogue).
(probably) Art Gallery of New South Wales, ''True Stories: Art of the East Kimberley'', Sydney, 2003.

Literature

Storer, R. et al, ''Paddy Bedford'', Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 2006, p.152