Lake Mungo Artwork
Answer Questions before reading the artists explanation of artwork
1) What has the artist chosen as the key elements of Lake Mungo to show in this artwork?
A) This artist has chosen to incorporate the natural environment where the Mungo people used to live. The artist has used a lot of dark colours and what looks like the middle of a tree in the center of the artwork.
2) How has the artist used symbols in the artwork?
A) The artist has used symbols in the artwork by using natural colours that come from the forest where the Mungo people lived. The artist has also used the colour brown, maybe the artwork represents a boomerang, or spears made from wood that the Mungo people used to hunt for food.
3) What do you think the message or meaning of this artwork is- what the artist is trying to say about Lake Mungo?
A) I believe that the artist is trying to send a message to the people about how the Mungo people lived and how the survived using the natural resources that had to survive the vast range of environment and different weather conditions.
4) Do you like this piece? Explain your reasons.
A) I like this piece of artwork because it provides history and tells a story aboriginal history.
Artist Explanation of Artwork:
Lake Pieces is an installation artwork reflecting
the cultural, historical and
scientific significance of
Lake Mungo in southwest New South
Wales.
It comprises four sections of
silk and light
suspension wires. One photograph
taken at Lake
Mungo is printed onto each silk
section. When
suspended, the individual silk
sections partly
overlap, evoking the rich
layering of archaeological
material found at Lake Mungo.
Installation artist and National
Museum of Australia
curator Dr Jay Arthur created Lake
Pieces
following several years of
research into the cultural,
historical and scientific
significance of Lake Mungo.
Lake Pieces distils and conveys in aesthetic
form complex understandings of
Lake Mungo, a
place of deep symbolism and
multi-dimensional
significance within Australian
culture. Radiocarbon
dating by archaeologists of
skeletal remains found
at Lake Mungo transformed
understandings of the
human history of the continent.
The Mysteries of Lake Mungo- Created By Gabrielle De Bono