Mirka Mora 'Boy' cool tones From windows hang saddened figures

From windows hang saddened figures

Mornington Peninsula Gallery and Deakin University

and her work is held at the National Gallery of Australia

Through layered gentle abstraction and protective blues

it will delight collectors of Blackman and works on paper

Mirka Mora 'Boy' cool tones From windows hang saddened figuresMirka Moras interest in dolls and puppets, or soft sculpture, began with her theatre and mime training. As an adult she also collected antique dolls, before finally embarking on creating them herself in 1970. The characters she birthed in cloth felt, to Mora, like substitute children; at the time, her sons were living apart from her. Indeed, despite being mere paint and cloth, Moras dolls felt alive. When they were first exhibited in 1971, John Reed