Constance Stokes 'The Mime: A Tribute to Marcel' george bell circle

Constance Stokes 'The Mime: A Tribute to Marcel' george bell circleProduced late in her career, The Mime A Tribute to Marcel (1981) is a luminous example of Constance Stokes modernist style. In a saturated palette of reds and oranges, she pays tribute to the French mime Marcel Marceau, depicting him with a certain femininity. Stokes witnessed Marceaus first performance in Melbourne in 1963. Sitting in the front row, she was mesmerised, later translating his movements into a series of sketches that would later inform

Makin transcribes the textures and curvatures of Australia's wide land and its native flora and fauna

the landscape offers complexity

'The Little House'

Edition of 63

Acquired in the 1970s

Single plate etching

At once a meditation on our obsession with football and the loneliness of contemporary life

'LIVE HUMAN

It belongs to the renowned Kelly series

'Young Lioness Near Halali - Namibia UnFramed ' 2011

seeing debris like a twig as a deliciously surreal moment

Dimensions: 94 x 90 cm