MOVIE STAR

Details

TRACEY MOFFATT (B. 1960)
MOVIE STAR
colour photograph
34 x 50.5 cm
Executed in 1985

Provenance

Aboriginal Artists Gallery, Sydney
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1986

Literature

G Newton, Tracey Moffatt: Cover Girl, Tracey Moffatt Fever Pitch, Sydney, 1995, p. 14-15, illus. p. 15

Exhibited

Sydney, Aboriginal Artists Gallery, Aboriginal Islander Photographs, 1986

Special notice

A 10% Goods and Services tax (G.S.T) will be charged on the Buyer's Premium on all lots in this sale.

Lot Essay

Aboriginal actor/dancer David Gulpilil, famed for his starring role in the 1971 film Walkabout, features in this photograph as the iconic sun-bronzed Aussie, relaxing witha stubbie in one hand on his shiny (probably) hotted-up car listening to his ghetto-blaster at Bondi Beach. There is no irony spared by Moffatt in this work.

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