Mt King - Emu Dreaming
2004
- Medium
- earth pigments on composition board
- Measurements
- 80.0 × 100.0 cm
- Place/s of Execution
- Kununurra, Western Australia
- Accession Number
- 2004.631
- Department
- First Nations Australia
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased with funds from the Victorian Foundation for Living Australian Artists, 2004
© Paddy Bedford, courtesy of Jirrawun Arts
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of The Vizard Foundation - Gallery location
- Not on display
- About this work
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The painting is about Karnanganyjel, the Emu Dreaming at Mount King to the west of Bedford Downs Station. Mount King is in an area with a line of high rocky cliffs. The emu, poised on the rock, is seen in the centre left. The black circle in the lower right indicates the area where a large number of the artist’s relations were poisoned in about 1920, in retaliation for the killing of a bullock.