Holding the Land
Helen Tiernan
Details
- Artist
- Helen Tiernan
- Title
- Holding the Land
- Year
- 2021
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Size
- 170 x 110 cm
- Details
signed lower right: H.S. Tiernan
copyright the artist
Provenance
the artist
Exhibited
Storied Country, Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne, 22 October - 19 November 2022
Further Information
Tiernan makes comment on the use of inland waterways and sea by Indigenous Australians in colonial times. Many paintings feature Aboriginal peoples fishing, including structures they built to facilitate food capture. Reinforcing Bruce Pascoe’s observation that Aboriginal people were not nomads, but farmers, is the subtle vignette of a dam made of rocks in Holding the Land – Fish Net.