Acrylic on canvas
Stretched and ready to hang
300mm x 835mm

I gathered these gum leaves from a tree just around the corner from my house, the location is marked by the background of the piece, a topographical look at the Larapinta water drainage sytem. The River Redgum was stunning, it was tall, thin, with beautiful accents of colour radiating off it. This branch serves as a smaller scale of the tree. I wanted to use this topographical style after learning of the Papunya Tula Art movement in Central Australia, where this style was transformed from painting on bodies and in the dirt, to canvas. I wanted to pay a conceptual homage to this movement, using a still life of the leaves as the subject.