FEATURED WORK
Elisa Jane Carmichael
Home 2017
Yunngaire, seagrass, oodgeroo, shells and cotton
Redland Art Gallery Art Collection. Donated by Caroline Fewtrell, 2022.
Elisa Jane Carmichael practice spans across a breadth of media, including painting, weaving, textile design and fashion. She is a Ngughi woman from Quandamooka country (Minjerribah/North Stradbroke Island and Moorgumpin/Moreton Island). Her recent practice celebrates Quandamooka weaving – past, present and future.
Home is woven together out of materials that all come from Quandamooka country. Shells collected on the shorelines, with seagrass and yunngaire reed are sewn on a base of oodgeroo (paperbark), traditionally used for making shelters. Carmichael took these materials to desert country to make Home inside her home there, signifying the strength and resilience of her people and their homes.
The RAG Collection continues to grow each year as a result of cultural gifts, donations and carefully selected acquisitions. This selection of recently acquired works from 2021 showcase the diversity and significance of the RAG Collection. Our thanks go out to our generous donors.
2020 – 2021 RAG Collection acquisitions follow:
Jo Fay Duncan
Spirit Man walking the Country once more 2019
Synthetic polymer paint
Redland Art Gallery Collection. Donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program by John and Meta Goodman, 2022.
Barry Fitzpatrick
Estuary 2021
Oil on board
Redland Art Gallery Collection.
Acquired from Redland Art Award Acquisitive Prize, 2022.
Jindrich Degen
Townscape Dreaming 2004
Oil on canvas
Redland Art Gallery Collection.
Donated on behalf of the Jindrich Degen Estate, 2022.
Kathryn Blumke
Sunset at Wellington Point Quilt 2020-21
Watercolour and graphite pencil
Redland Art Gallery Collection.
Donated by Kathryn Blumke, 2022.
Elisa-Jane Carmichael
Home
2017
Yunngaire, seagrass, oodgeroo, shells and cotton
Redland Art Gallery Art Collection.
Donated by Caroline Fewtrell, 2022
Delvene Cockatoo-Collins
Untitled (necklace)
n.d
Shells, reeds
Redland Art Gallery Art Collection.
Donated by Caroline Fewtrell, 2022.
Delvene Cockatoo-Collins
Untitled (Blueberry ash screenprint)
n.d
Screenprint on silk
Redland Art Gallery Art Collection.
Donated by Caroline Fewtrell, 2022
Joe Furlonger
Untitled (Jingdezhen ceramics vase)
2018
Underglaze pigment on porcelain
Redland Art Gallery Collection.
Donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program by John Brown, 2022.
Joe Furlonger
Untitled (Jingdezhen ceramics vase)
2018
Underglaze pigment on porcelain
Redland Art Gallery Collection.
Donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program by John Brown, 2022.