Collection
Matthew Gilbert
(Australia circa 1920– )
- Language group
- Yawuru, Kimberley region
- Title
- Head
- Place of origin
-
La Grange →
Western Australia →
Australia
- Year
- circa 1985
- Media category
- Sculpture
- Materials used
- natural pigments on carved sandstone
- Dimensions
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41.0 x 18.0 x 16.0cm
- Signature & date
- Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of Dr Ronald and Alison Fine 1994
- Accession number
- 458.1994
- Location
- Not on display
- Bibliography (5)
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Deborah Edwards, Presence & absence: portrait sculpture in Australia 2003, Canberra, 2003, 74-75, 79. cat.no. 25
Deborah Edwards, Look Sep 2003, 'Portrait sculpture: simultaneosly the most artificial and the most "real"', pg. 29-31, Newtown, Sep 2003, 31.
Kate M Murphy, Art Monthly Australia Apr 2004, 'Presence & absence: Portrait sculpture in Australia at the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra', pg. 10-13, Acton, Apr 2004, front cover (colour illus.), 2.
Margo Neale, Yiribana: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander collection, Sydney, 1994, 92 (colour illus.), 136, 139. plate no. 43
Barry Pearce, Australian Collection Focus: Tom Roberts Bailed Up 1895/1927 1998, Domain, 1998, 11 (colour illus.).
- Exhibition history (3)
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Gamarada, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 15 Nov 1996–16 Feb 1997
A material thing - Objects from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 31 Aug 1998–09 Feb 1999
Presence and absence: portrait sculpture in Australia, National Portrait Gallery [Old Parliament House], Canberra, 22 Aug 2003–16 Nov 2003
