Provenance and context of painting
• Artist: Hilda Nelson
• Country: Roper River, Northern Territory
• Catalogue number: HN04
• Medium: Acrylic on canvas
• Project: Wise Move / Brain Stories Pilot Project
• Associated organisation: Mimi Aboriginal Art & Craft
• Accompanied by its original Certificate of Authenticity
• The certificate includes both an image of this particular painting and a photograph of Hilda Nelson holding one of her artworks.
• The painting features a group of circular forms created through concentric areas of dots and colour against a vivid red-orange ground.
• White, yellow, blue, black and earthy colours give the individual forms distinct identities while repeated dots visually connect them across the canvas.
• No title, Dreaming or artist’s explanation of the imagery is recorded on the certificate. A specific cultural meaning should therefore not be attributed to the circular forms without further documentation.
