Goose Camp Kakadu: moonrise at sunset (hand-coloured)
© Susan Dorothea White
Goose Camp Kakadu: moonrise at sunset (hand-coloured) 2010woodcut (hand-coloured in watercolour)
42 x 64 cm (printed image); 60.5 x 80.5 cm (sheet)
edition of 15, plus Trial, artist’s proof (17 impressions)
National Gallery of Australia collection. Gift of the artist, 2019 (Accession no: 2019.77) (ed. 1/15)
Artist's Statement:
Visiting Kakadu was an experience of a lifetime. First Nations women shared their culture at Goose Camp, preparing and cooking magpie geese in the coals. Deafening flocks of geese flew overhead. While we were helping to pluck the birds, we saw the extraordinary phenomenon of the full moon rising on one side of the lake as the sun was setting on the other.