Mirka Mora 'Big Bird' neo-expressionism his series was titled after

his series was titled after the American poet and author Ezra Pounds The Cantos - a series of deeply intellectual musings on life and Government during the post-war period

it was his undying love for colour and its ability to add music to a simple form that earned him his reputation as a master composer of graphic harmonies

'Trumpeters'

when Italy entered the war

finished quality that has come to define Balls abstract forms

Mirka Mora 'Big Bird' neo-expressionism his series was titled afterThe 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. Moras art was an act of resilience. Her family narrowly escaped the Holocaust, with Mora spending her adolescence hiding between French villages and forests evading capture. Her work is set in this