God's eye installation
2017
- Medium
- ghost net, wool, wood
- Measurements
- 350.0 × 491.0 cm (variable)
- Place/s of Execution
- Aurukun, Queensland
- Accession Number
- 2017.1219
- Department
- First Nations Australia
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased NGV Foundation Patrons, 2017
© Wik & Kugu Art Centre - Gallery location
- Not on display
- About this work
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This installation of geometric woollen forms was made by forty- five women of Aurukun who would gather at Akay Koo’oila Women’s Art Centre each day to meet, work and share stories. Their creation is a symbol of peace, comfort and healing. Each individual ‘God’s eye’ derives its form and meaning from God’s eyes made in First Nations communities of West Mexico, which are believed to signify ‘the power to see and understand things unknown’. Like their First Nations counterparts in West Mexico, the Aurukun artists from Cape York, Queensland, have connections to sources of spiritual power in Country that go beyond the physical and deal with difficult situations and conditions.