Lake Argyle Country

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This painting shows Lake Argyle, created by white men in the 1960s who dammed the Ord River to develop farmable land. Notice the lake, large, empty, and white, while its surroundings show the living Country of black and red soil, waterholes, hills, and creeks. Like Goody Barret, whose work is nearby, Timms grew up in this area, working on Lissadell Station, which eventually closed due to the environmental effects of the dammed river and the Argyle Diamond Mine. Many of Timms’s works are memorials to this vanished land.

From the 2023 exhibition Layered Histories: Indigenous Australian Art from the Kimberley and Central Desert, curated by Amelia Kahl, Barbara C. & Harvey P. Hood 1918 Curator of Academic Programming

Course History

FILM 48, SART 17, The Map, Mary Flanagan, Summer 2013

ANTH 3, Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Sienna Craig, Summer 2013

GEOG 11, Qualitative Methods and the Research Process in Geography, Abigail Neely, Winter 2015

ANTH 50.33, Cartographic Encounters, Kenneth Bauer, Spring 2020

Geography 31.01, Postcolonial Geographies, Erin Collins, Fall 2023

Exhibition History

Layered Histories: Indigenous Australian Art from the Kimberely and Central Desert, Amelia Kahl, Curator, 5 August 2023 - 2 March 2024, Citrin Family Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire.

Provenance

Jinta Desert Art, Sydney, New South Wales; sold to Will Owen (1952-2015) and Harvey Wagner (1931-2017), Chapel Hill, North Carolina, date unknown; given to present collection, 2009

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