Mirka Mora 'Portrait in Chiaroscuro' earth tones

Mirka Mora 'Portrait in Chiaroscuro' earth tonesThe visual world of Mirka Mora, matriarch of the Melbourne art scene, was fantastical. Creatures human, animal and hybrid dance throughout, inspired by Eastern European fairy tales, angels and ancient mythology, as well as Moras own fecund imagination an act of resilience in light of her familys plight during the Second World War. She spent her adolescence hiding between French villages and forests evading capture; her immediate family were condemned

‘Still-life study with sunflowers and a vase’ stems from this era

Edition of 65

Signed: Signed lower right 'GUERRESCHI'

'Monkey I'

It is both a tribute and an absurdist

film and photography

signed 'Rankin' and dated in margin

a vessel for the artist’s spirit and enduring legacy

Giuseppe Guerreschi’s ‘Per Venezia’ is a work of formal and conceptual precision

Fragments of an eye

this curiosity lands on its namesake - a creature as tenacious as it is delicate

is a foretelling of good or bad tidings