c1920 - 2006
Title - Kangaroo Food (Tucker), 2003
Large work measuring 163cm x 125cm
Acrylic on canvas
Offered with this work are a Certificate of Authenticity, three work in progress photographs and one photograph of Lorna with the final work.
SOLD
This piece painted in 2003 is indeed sizeable, well executed and shows the immense talent of the artist.
Lorna's style is extremely bold, free and abstract. She applies the paint in liberal quantities to the brush before touching down on the canvas and layering the colours one upon the next. Upon completion of the work, only the most public aspects of her Dreaming are revealed to the observer, the most intimate details are concealed.
Lorna, atypical of many contemporary Aboriginal artists, also uses a palette of vibrant colours.
In 2006, Lorna was selected as one of the Top 50 Most Collectable Artists listed in Australian Art Collector Magazine, and in her later years, Lorna's work became increasingly extravagant, abstract and sensual, catching the attention of art collectors from around the world.
Lorna was born c1920 in Yumurrpa country, which is situated near the Granites in the Tanami Desert, Northern Territory, and today lives predominantly at Lajamanu and occasionally in Katherine.
She was a senior Warlpiri woman, and began painting in 1986.
In 1997, Lorna was granted the Gold Coast City Art Award. She has exhibited extensively across Australia, Italy and the USA, with solo shows at Alcaston Gallery in Melbourne in 1998, Hogarth Galleries in Sydney and Vivien Anderson Gallery in Melbourne in 2005.
Her work is held in the National Gallery of Victoria, the Australian Heritage Commission, the Christensen Collections of Victoria, the Holmes a Court Collection, the Aboriginal Art Museum of The Netherlands, the National Gallery of Australia, National Gallery of Victoria, the Laverty Collection, the Gantner Myer Collection, the Margaret Carnegie Collection, the Kerry Stokes Collection and the Leewuin Estate collection.
