Hertha Kluge-Pott Woman 2012 drypoint, printed in black ink with plate-tone, from one zinc plate 100 x 49.5 cm gift of the artist 2014
responds to the delicacy of crawling lives, while appreciating the roots and tips of hardy plants like melaleuka, kelp, euphobia and lavender. Kluge-Pott’s connection to the environment is of an intense, personal nature. If a figure does appear in her recent work, small and camouflaged, it is the gardener. Sometimes tending, but sometimes being blown around the landscape, this winsome figure is, of course, none other than Kluge-Pott herself. While she is at the mercy of the wind, she appears to us as an environmental superhero. The National Gallery of Australia is thrilled to be able to represent the life’s work of this significant printmaker. Although she is an elusive figure in the history books, you can find her here, among this major gift. Victoria Perin Gordon Darling Intern, Australian Prints and Drawings
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