Herbaceous border
1995
from the Colonial Landscapes series 1995–96
- Medium
- charcoal and pastel
- Measurements
- 121.8 × 159.6 cm irreg. (sheet)
- Inscription
- inscribed in charcoal (in image) l.l.: KENTRIDGE, 95
- Accession Number
- 1997.70
- Department
- International Prints and Drawings
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased through The Art Foundation of Victoria with the assistance of Mr Robert Raynor AM, Honorary Life Benefactor, 1997
© Courtesy of the artist
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest - Gallery location
- Level 3, NGV International
- About this work
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William Kentridge is a South African artist who has gained international acclaim for his prints, drawings and animated films. In 1995–96, in conjunction with his theatre production Faustus in Africa! (Handspring Puppet Company), Kentridge produced Colonial Landscapes, a series of large drawings made in response to a late nineteenth-century illustrated book, Africa and its Exploration as Told by its Explorers. This drawing reinterprets an illustration of a white hunter and his African guide hunting wild geese. Kentridge has introduced surveillance and communication towers into the landscape and a tracery of red lines that recall the damage inflicted upon the land by explorers, settlers and the mining industry, and upon its people by colonisation and its aftermath.
- Subjects (general)
- Allegory and Symbols Landscapes Nature
- Subjects (specific)
- fences (site elements) herbaceous borders leaf (plant material) repeated motif riverbanks riverine landscapes rivers symbols
- Movements
- Contemporary (style of art)
