Hunting and fishing
2023
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Measurements
- 135.3 × 107.3 cm
- Place/s of Execution
- Melbourne, Victoria
- Inscription
- stamped in ink u.l.: PRUDENCE FLINT
inscribed in black chalk on reverse u.l.: Hunting and Fishing / 2023 - Accession Number
- 2024.20
- Department
- Contemporary Art
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased with funds donated by Bruce Parncutt AO and Celebration Donors, 2024
© Prudence Flint - Gallery location
- Gallery 18
Level 3, NGV Australia - About this work
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Without specific narratives but full of psychological richness, Prudence Flint’s paintings of women escape easy interpretation. Seemingly lost in thought, the figures are surrounded by everyday objects that serve as metaphors for the inner world.
Flint’s paintings take long periods to make. They begin as ideas reproduced in pencil and charcoal drawings before being painted from life in her studio, where Flint works with a close circle that has modelled for her over years.
Hunting and Fishing is part of a body of work that reflects the artist’s ongoing interest in the traditions of figurative painting and the representation of women throughout art history.
