Mirka Mora 'Bird and Girl' women artists Image Size: 70 x 50

Image Size: 70 x 50 cm Frame Dimensions: 95 x 72 x 3 cm

ears like antennae

What is intrigue amputated from meaning

evoking “the things we look through when we think we should be looking somewhere else

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Mirka Mora 'Bird and Girl' women artists Image Size: 70 x 50The 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