'We went West Claudie' by Tenniel Bally
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- Type
- Linocuts
- Place
- Lockhart River, Queensland, Australia
- Materials
- Ink, Paper
- Collection
- Lockhart River State School collection
- Accession number
- 2010.0003.0028
Description
A linocut print in black ink on white paper, depicting the head and shoulders of a parrot with a raised crest, viewed from the side, with a horizontal line pattern in the background. Handwritten text in pencil below the print reads 'We went west Claudie Tenneil / Bally'. The linocut is mounted under black matt-board.
"When I go to the bush ... I saw a parrot with a bushy hair ... and we went diving at West Claudie River. We stay at the river ... we was bathing Tara ... making him swim ... and we had turtle and crayfish." - Tenniel Bally
About the collection
The Lockhart River State School Collection contains 67 prints made by children in years four to seven in 2002. The 51 lino prints and 16 monoprints capture a sense of life in Lockhart River from the children's perspective, particularly the beach and its importance to fishing and hunting. Some subjects are familiar to children around Australia, such as pets, ice-cream, sporting teams and holidays. Others are more specific to Lockhart River. The fauna of the area receives particular attention, with cassowaries, kangaroos, dugongs, black cockatoos, crocodiles, ants, snake eggs, turtles, eels and jellyfish all appearing. The prints were made as a part of the collaboration between the school and the Lockhart River Arts and Cultural Centre. The children took art classes at the Centre and worked with members of the Lockhart River Art Gang. The Cultural Centre was established in order to revitalise the communication of traditional Aboriginal culture of the region and create vocational opportunities for young people. The members of the Art Gang were the first generation of successful artists to emerge from Lockhart River, in the late 1990s, and the project with the school was an opportunity to introduce the next generation to their work and the potential of art as a vocation.
Read live from the Museum's Collection API (12/11/2026, 6:07:05 am). Record last updated by the Museum 2025-02-26. Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/.