Title
Untitled
circa 1993
Artist
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Details
- Place where the work was made
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Alice Springs
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- Cultural origin
- Mparntwe (Alice Springs)/Central Desert region
- Date
- circa 1993
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- synthetic polymer paint on paper on canvas
- Dimensions
- 76.0 x 58.0 cm
- Credit
- Gift of Mark Nelson 2015. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 17.2015
- Copyright
- © Estate of Robert Ambrose Cole. Reproduced with permission of Utopia Art Sydney
- Artist information
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Robert Ambrose Cole
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About
In 'Untitled' 1993, Cole painted dots in lines that curve across the surface, defining a form from the multi coloured background. These forms have been described in many ways: as deriving from ceremonial body markings; as suggesting the dramatic gorges that cut through rock formations in the desert near Mparntwe. While these may all be possible sources or references in this work, the forms are also abstract, grounded in both traditional Aboriginal culture and a very contemporary painterly experimentation with colour and form.
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Places
Where the work was made
Alice Springs
