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Carmel Chisholm

Carmel Chisholm
Title
Carmel Chisholm
Dimensions
55 × 40 cm
Region
Central Desert

Provenance and context of painting

• Artist: Carmel Chisholm
• Skin name: Kngwarreye
• Born: 1 January 1940
• Language: Eastern Arrernte
• Residence: Truckies Camp, Alice Springs
• Dreaming: Emu
• Title: Bush Tucker
• Date: 16 April 2007
• Medium: Acrylic on canvas
• Size: 55 × 40 cm
• Produced through Tangentyere Artists, Alice Springs
• Accompanied by its original Tangentyere Artists Certificate of Authenticity
• The certificate identifies the subject of the painting as bush bananas, bush yams, wild onions and wild melons.
• The work depicts traditional bush foods through a richly patterned landscape of dots, lines, circles and organic forms.

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One Phoenix Arts acknowledges the Larrakia people as the Traditional Owners of the land on which our gallery stands, and pays respect to Elders past and present. We acknowledge the artists and their communities across the Northern Territory, the Kimberley and the deserts, who hold the stories in these works.