Jesus loves Mollie?
Julie DOWLING: artist
In this painting, my grandmother, Mollie, is seated in the right
foreground. She is recovering from the stroke that she suffered in 1993.
Her body is surrounded by an aura.
In the left foreground is my grandmother as an 18-year-old when she
was baptised a Roman Catholic.
This vignette is taken from a photograph of Mollie in the artist’s
collection in which she appears as a smiling young girl with a statue of
the virgin.
The words are of a well-known children’s hymn, Jesus loves me, are
inscribed at the centre because that is what she was taught to sing at
the convent. Mollie worked in the orphanage laundry from the age of
twelve till she was twenty-one years old.
foreground. She is recovering from the stroke that she suffered in 1993.
Her body is surrounded by an aura.
In the left foreground is my grandmother as an 18-year-old when she
was baptised a Roman Catholic.
This vignette is taken from a photograph of Mollie in the artist’s
collection in which she appears as a smiling young girl with a statue of
the virgin.
The words are of a well-known children’s hymn, Jesus loves me, are
inscribed at the centre because that is what she was taught to sing at
the convent. Mollie worked in the orphanage laundry from the age of
twelve till she was twenty-one years old.
Title
Jesus loves Mollie?
Artist/Maker and role
Julie DOWLING: artist
Date
1996
Medium
synthetic polymer paint, red and yellow ochre and blood on canvas
Measurements
71.0 x 124.5 cm
Credit line
Gift of Brigitte Braun, 2017
© Julie Dowling / Copyright Agency
The State Art Collection, The Art Gallery of Western Australia
Accession number
2017/0044