Title
Our bridge on the Murrumbidgee
1998
Artist
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Details
- Place where the work was made
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Sydney
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Australia
- Cultural origin
- Wiradjuri
- Date
- 1998
- Media category
- Materials used
- etching, printed in black ink on white wove paper
- Edition
- 1/10
- Dimensions
- 14.0 x 17.5 cm platemark; 16.6 x 22.5 cm sheet
- Signature & date
Signed l.r. corner, pencil "Roy D Kennedy". Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased with funds provided by the Aboriginal Art Collection Benefactors 2012
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 370.2012
- Copyright
- © Roy Kennedy
- Artist information
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Roy Kennedy
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About
Roy Kennedy, like many Aboriginal artists, came to art-making late in life. As he says, "I am living proof that you're never too old to learn". Kennedy studied painting and later etching at the Eora Centre in inner city Sydney. Etching is his preferred medium and one that has revealed his strength of vision as an artist. Kennedy's work shares many similarities with other successful Eora graduates, such as HJ Wedge and Elaine Russell. Like these artists, Kennedy has forged a distinctive style that contributes to the growing strength of Indigenous art practice in urban centres.
Many of the senior artists working in the cities reflect on their younger lives growing up on missions in regional areas. This series of prints recall Kennedy's life on Police Paddock Mission, where his family were moved when the mission his mother was born on, Warangesda, was closed in 1925. Both missions were at Darlington Point, on the Murrumbidgee River, south west of Sydney.
Kennedy provides stories that accompany his images allowing the viewer a personal insight into the importance of the scene depicted:
"'Our bridge on the Murrumbidgee': This bridge of ours at Darlington Point was very important. The steamer which brought food to the township passed there and the bridge would draw its tracks up and let it through".
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Places
Where the work was made
Sydney
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Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
Murruwaygu: following in the footsteps of our ancestors, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 28 Nov 2015–21 Feb 2016
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Bibliography
Referenced in 1 publication
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Roy Kennedy’, How soon they forget: the art of Roy Kennedy, ‘Works, pg. 49-52, Australian Capital Territory, 2009, 49. dated 1999
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