PAINTING: 'WOMAN SITTING STORY', BEVERLEY EGAN
2021Image: One of a series of six paintings created by Beverley Egan and Subiaco Library students during a school holiday workshop.
Woman Sitting Story is acrylic paint on canvas. White background with white, red, teal, green, brown, purple and yellow dots. Painting also has one group of black and red U-shapes sitting around a black circle with yellow and red dots. This represents women sitting around a fire. There are also a group of black and green circles in the bottom left corner and brown curved lines in the top left hand corner.
Reverse: 'Woman Sitting Story Beverley Egan 2021'.
One of a series of six artworks created by Beverley Egan at a school holiday workshop run in the Subiaco Library
Beverley Egan was born in Mullewa, 21 August 1961. She is a Yamatji woman and speaks the Wadjarri language. She maintains strong links to her country and traditional cultural in the Murchison/Gascoyne Region. She paints stories from women and her family's country and mainly depicts four women coming together.
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Beverley Egan
Indigenous artworks created by children and Yamatji woman Beverley Egan, as part of a school holiday project in 2021.
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- PAINTING: 'WELL BEING', M.R. BIRKETT
- PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINT: 'MARILYN, BRISTILE CHINA', SONYA SEARS, 1997
- PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINT: 'VENABLES I', SONYA SEARS, 1996
- PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINT: 'VENABLES II', SONYA SEARS, 1996
- PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINT: 'TEACUPS AT AUSTRALIAN FINE CHINA', SONYA SEARS, 1996
- POSTER: SUBIACO CRAFT AND COMMUNITY FAIR, 2001
- PHOTOGRAPHIC COLLAGE: 'PERTH MODERN SCHOOL' AUSTIN PLATT AND DAVID HEPBURN
- PHOTOGRAPHIC COLLAGE: 'UNIVERSITY OF WA, CRAWLEY' DAVID HEPBURN
- PHOTOGRAPHIC COLLAGE: 'JOLIMONT SWAMP' DAVID HEPBURN
- PHOTOGRAPHIC COLLAGE: 'ST ANDREWS CHURCH' DAVID HEPBURN
- PHOTOGRAPHIC COLLAGE: 'SHENTON PARK', DAVID HEPBURN