Him yah come…fall down…proper heavy, 2008, Rosella Namok
Acrylic on canvas, 173cm x 342cm
Provenance: Niagara Galleries, Melbourne.
A leading figure of the Lockhart River ‘Art Gang’, a collection of young Aboriginal artists from the east coast of Cape York, Rosella Namok describes herself as a ‘modern artist’. Her paintings engage traditional themes explored in her own distinctive, and undoubtably modern style. Namok’s works explore stories about the people around her, physical and natural environments, weather patterns, as well as her Ungkum community. The everyday titles of her paintings tether the abstracted imagery to the figurative ‘real world’, with all of its tensions and disharmonies. (1)