Mirka Mora 'Portrait in Chiaroscuro' mixed media Aboriginal concepts of place and

Aboriginal concepts of place and his own memories — creating striking impressions of the landscape and its inhabitants that linger long after first encountering them

cyanotype on paper

In this sketch of Barbara

Recent Australian Art at the Art Gallery of New South Wales (1973)

Petersburg and the Correr Museum

Mirka Mora 'Portrait in Chiaroscuro' mixed media Aboriginal concepts of place andThe visual world of Mirka Mora, matriarch of the Melbourne art scene, was fantastical. Creatures human, animal and hybrid dance throughout, inspired by Eastern European fairy tales, angels and ancient mythology, as well as Moras own fecund imagination an act of resilience in light of her familys plight during the Second World War. She spent her adolescence hiding between French villages and forests evading capture; her immediate family were condemned