Observance
2011-2012
- Medium
- colour digital video, sound
- Measurements
- 17 min 9 sec
- Place/s of Execution
- Hobart, Tasmania
- Edition
- ed. 2/10
- Accession Number
- 2012.213
- Department
- First Nations Australia
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, NGV Supporters of Indigenous Arts, 2012 - Gallery location
- Gallery 4
Ground Level, NGV Australia - About this work
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‘These floating necklace forms work for me as life preservers, that is, operating perhaps as memory retainers for people on the edge. The wood and the pumice necklaces – Drift and Lifebearer seem very much to be about returning home (to Tasmania) sometime. I feel I can (in my mind’s eye) walk into Townsville beach with these wrapped around me and float into the sea and wash up back in north-east Tasmania. The coal necklace – Seam – is like the weighty lifeblood of ancestry – the coal black materiality of the earth that I haven’t answered or perhaps recognised.’
– Julie Gough, 2005