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PAINTING: 'WOMEN DIGGING FOR BUSH POTATO', BEVERLEY EGAN

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Beverley Egan

2021

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Overview

Image: One of a series of six paintings created by Beverley Egan and Subiaco Library students during a school holiday workshop.

'Women Digging For Bush Potato' is an acrylic painting on canvas, featuring a slate grey background with white, blue, red, brown, green, purple and yellow dots. Painting also has one black and brown U-shape with two yellow oblong shapes either side. This represents a woman sitting digging for bush potato. From the centre stretches green swirls representing the roots of a bush plant. It also represents also the strong links to family members.

Reverse: 'Woman Digging for Bush Potato 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-43-2021.72.3

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Width

500 mm

Height or length

500 mm

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Beverley Egan

Keywords

Aboriginal - Art

Subiaco Library

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Statement of significance

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

Aesthetic: Social: Interpretive: Condition: Provenance: Representativeness:

Primary significance criteria

Artistic or aesthetic significance

Social or spiritual significance

Comparative significance criteria

Interpretive capacity

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Rare or representative

Well provenanced

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