AU T U MN / W IN T E R 2021
Collection Peek The MRAG Collection comprises more than 6,000 artworks by Australian and international artists.
In Focus Artist Sally Bourke Artwork I am the ghost of you, you are the ghost of me, 2020 Oil on ampersand board 45.8 x 61.2cm Purchased by Maitland Regional Art Gallery in 2020
Sally Bourke is a contemporary Australian artist who creates portraits and sculptural objects to reference and reconcile experiences from her past.
of those cheap, round watercolours that make ghostly marks on paper.” The faces she depicts reference those early ghostly markings. Painted “from the inside out”, her works capture a haunting glimpse into her characters, rather than a likeness.
Born in Dubbo, Sally has lived and worked in Newcastle for the last 20 years. “My earliest memory of making art was sitting on the veranda at my parents’ house,” she writes, “with a box
Words: Celeste Aldahn
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