Marika Patrick - Purnululu

Marika Patrick has depicted the beehive domes of her family’s traditional country - the World Heritage-listed Bungle Bungles (Purnululu National Park). This is Patrick’s grandmother’s country where her great-great-grandmother used to live. Patrick says it was good hunting country and that she still visits sometimes. There are many sites within Purnululu with special significance to Patrick and to Gija people.

ARTIST: Marika Patrick
TITLE: Purnululu
MEDIUM: Etching & aquatint
PLATES DRAWN & ETCHED: Warmun, 2007-8
EDITION: 100
HAND PRINTED BY: Merran Sierakowski
FOR: Basil Hall Editions, Darwin
DATE COMPLETED: January 2009

The 2009 team at Basil Hall Editions (BHE) and six talented indigenous artists from northern and central Australia are proud to present Series IV of BHE’s Collectors’ Folios.

Over the last four years we have now presented you with four series of superb etchings, silkscreens and relief prints; twenty four perfect excuses to start an art collection, gather inexpensive works by major Australian artists or give a unique gift.

These prints have been made in collaboration with Indigenous people from remote communities in the Northern Territory, Queensland, Western and South Australia. Basil Hall and his printers have travelled many thousands of kilometres to work on the plates, screens or blocks with the artists, before returning to the Darwin studio of BHE to proof and edition the prints by hand.

Once the prints have dried, they are carefully numbered out of 100 and have the studio stamp applied to the bottom corner. They are sent to the artists for their approval and signature and return to the studio for packing in their specially designed folios.

This co-publication between the Art Centres, artists and BHE means that the artists are paid up front for their work, while the prints are wholesaled by the Art Centres themselves and BHE. If you need to find out stockists in your state or territory, call Basil Hall on 08 89417445 or enquire at the Art Centres above if you are visiting the Top End or Central Australia.