The record keepers (from the Duyfken: The Aboriginal Print Portfolio)

Karen CASEY: artist
Australian Print Workshop Inc: printer

Not On Display

About the work

From the ancient practice of hand-stencilling to the elaborate science of cartography, human beings possess an innate desire to record and chart their arrivals and journeys through life. Drawing from Abel Tasman’s 1642 expedition journal and on the cave art signatures of my Tasmanian forebears, this work responds to both the spirit of exploration and discovery, and to the enduring sense of connection one has with one’s country and place of origin. Like the contours of the explorers’ maps, the tracings and imprints of clasped hands reveal the passage of time, metaphorically uniting peoples of different cultures through the myriad of life’s experience, each existing within a particular geographic location and each with a story to tell.
Title
The record keepers (from the Duyfken: The Aboriginal Print Portfolio)
Artist/Maker and role
Karen CASEY: artist
Australian Print Workshop Inc: printer
Date
2006
Medium
Photo-lithograph in one colour, printed from one CTP off-set photo-litho plate on Velin Arches 250gsm paper in collectors box
Measurements
40 x 54cm (image)
56 x 76cm (sheet)
Credit line
Gift of Wesfarmers Limited, 2007
© Karen Casey,2006
The State Art Collection, The Art Gallery of Western Australia
Accession number
2007/0322.1

This is one of the prints in our collection.

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