{"product_id":"joanne-currie-nalingu-shadow-flow-2025-150x300cm","title":"Joanne Currie Nalingu | 'Shadow Flow, 2025' | 150x300cm","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCode:\u003c\/strong\u003e MAFW22691\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eArtist:\u003c\/strong\u003e Joanne Currie Nalingu\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTitle:\u003c\/strong\u003e Shadow Flow\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eArea:\u003c\/strong\u003e Maranoa River, Mitchell, QLD\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCommunity:\u003c\/strong\u003e Gunggari\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMedium:\u003c\/strong\u003e Acrylic On Linen\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize:\u003c\/strong\u003e 150x300cm\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eYear:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2025\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJoanne Currie Nalingu's river paintings return again and again to the Maranoa, the water she grew up beside on the Yumba, the river-bank camp near Mitchell in south-west Queensland. She paints the river as a living presence rather than a view of it - a place she is compelled to return to in memory, rendered in fine rippling lines that move like current and light on water. The shifts and breaks in the pattern stand for the events of a life, and beneath the surface she keeps a sense of depth, of something held rather than shown. The Maranoa, she has said, is really a symbol for all rivers, for all people.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJoanne Currie Nalingu is a Gunggari artist born in Mitchell, Queensland, in 1964. She grew up on the Yumba, the Aboriginal camp on the banks of the Maranoa River, and now lives near Brisbane, where she raised her children and is raising her grandchildren. The river has been her subject from the beginning: she paints the Maranoa and the traditional designs found on the shields and artefacts of her country in a signature language of fine, rippling lines - kept, in her words, simple, clean and sharp. In the River Lines paintings the water is a living presence and a place of return, the lines moving like current and light across the surface; the River Shield Revival works carry the same line onto shield forms and, in recent series, over photographic prints of Mandandanyi shield designs and Gunggari text. For Currie the river stands for more than one place - it is, as she says, a symbol for all rivers and all people. She won the Wynne Prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in 2008 and has been a finalist many times in the Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards; her work is held by the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, the Museum of Brisbane and the National Gallery of Australia, and in private and public collections in Australia, Europe, the United States and the United Kingdom.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fireworks Gallery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67618077442281,"sku":"MAFW22691","price":49000.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0769\/0993\/6873\/files\/MAFW22691-JoanneCurrieNaling-2025-ShadowFlow-150x300cm-web.jpg?v=1791162823","url":"https:\/\/cag.art\/products\/joanne-currie-nalingu-shadow-flow-2025-150x300cm","provider":"Canberra Art Gallery","version":"1.0","type":"link"}