Kayili Car Bonnets

Mary Gibson, Australia b.1952 / Toyota HiLux 2007 / Synthetic polymer paint on metal / 135 x 102 x 12cm / Purchased 2008. The Queensland Government's Gallery of Modern Art Acquisitions Fun / Collection: Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art / © Mary Gibson / View full image
When
7 Aug 2020 – 17 Oct 2021
Where
Gallery of Modern Art & Pavilion Walk
About
Known as the Kayili artists, Pulpurru Davies, Nola Campbell, Mary Gibson, Jackie Kurltjunyintja Giles and Ngipi Ward were among the last nomadic desert peoples forced into settler life. They now live in a small community at Patjarr, a thousand kilometres west of Alice Springs in the heartland of the Western Desert, the desert now populated with cars, some functional, many in various stages of decay.