Virtual Lecture: 'Mavis Ngallametta' Show Me the Way to Go Home
Mavis Ngallametta / Kugu-Uwanh people, Putch clan / Untitled 2010 / Gift of the artist through the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Foundation 2015. Donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program / Collection: Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art / © Estate of the artist / View full image
When
11.00 – 11.55 am, Wed 24 Jun 2020About
Delve deeper into QAGOMA exhibitions and displays at our new series of virtual talks for Members! This month, join Katina Davidson (Acting Curator, Indigenous Australian Art) for an overview of ‘Mavis Ngallametta: Show Me the Way to Go Home’. Mrs Ngallametta (1944–2019) made a profound contribution to arts and culture nationally and particularly in Queensland, her home state. An elder of the Putch clan and a cultural leader of the Wik and Kugu people of Aurukun, Mrs Ngallametta was one of the most highly regarded senior community-based artists in Australia. The exhibition will survey a decade of her intricate and animated paintings, bringing together major works from her Pamp/Swamp, Kendall River, Wutan, Ikalath, Yalgamunken, intertidal estuary and powerful bushfire series for the first time. This will be a powerful aesthetic experience and great insight into life on Mavis Ngallametta’s country. Free for Members / $10 Members' guests / Book online or call 07 3840 7278