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PAINTING: 'WOMAN SITTING STORY', BEVERLEY EGAN

2021
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Image: 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'.

Historical information

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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cwa-org-43-2021.72.6
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500 mm
Height or length
500 mm
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Beverley Egan

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Indigenous artworks created by children and Yamatji woman Beverley Egan, as part of a school holiday project in 2021.

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