Mary Tonkin
Artwork title: Where ferns frolic, Kalorama
Medium: Oil on linen
Size: 69 cm x 62 cm
$17,000
About the Artwork
Made on quiet winter days, in a fern rich gully. I heard someone on the radio quote a Rilke line that I can't find "and one sees to the beginning of time". It seemed so apt. But it isn't me or us, it is the ferns that have been here, seeing, from the beginning of time. I think of them frolicking and dreaming, and watch how they intersect and interlace with one another through space.
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About the Artist
Tonkin (b.1973) lives and works in the Corhanwarrabul / Dandenong Ranges east of Naarm / Melbourne. She makes work about what it is to be present over time, in the lush fern-rich bush of her family's rare bulb farm at Kalorama. Her work is represented in numerous private and public collections, including state and regional galleries.