Mirka Mora 'Untitled (Angel)' george bell circle

Mirka Mora 'Untitled (Angel)' george bell circleThe visual world of Mirka Mora, matriarch of the Melbourne art scene, was fantastical. Creatures human, animal and hybrid dance throughout, inspired by Eastern European fairy tales, angels and ancient mythology, as well as Moras own fecund imagination. Moras art was an act of resilience. Her family narrowly escaped the Holocaust, with Mora spending her adolescence hiding between French villages and forests evading capture. Her work is set in this

which is one of my most ambitious

Mirka Mora drew on the forces of life

It pricks themes of loss

This is not something alien

'On the Barren Thorns' 2004

unique edition

Dimensions: 112 x 92 cm

The merging of Hebrew and clothing may represent Majzner’s belief that the spiritual and human are entwined

while his importance to the Australian cultural landscape has been recognised by representative holding of his works in all national and state galleries

traditional designs

the thrashing sea becomes a site of alienation

Dimensions: 41 x 38 x 4 cm