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Translation

Kay Lawrence working at Lake Mungo, far west NSW, Australia, 1997

Plant dye grid, 1997

plant dye on paper

6 sheets each 18 cm x 25 cm

Translation, 1999-2000

woven tapestry

45 cm x 315 cm

Translation (detail), 1999-2000

woven tapestry

45 cm x 315 cm

Translation (detail), 1999-2000

woven tapestry

45 cm x 315 cm

Rust

Drawings, cup and jug, 1999-2001

sepia ink on paper

6 sheets each 33 x 21cm

Rust: jug, plate, cup, 2001

woven tapestry

3 tapestries each 45.4 x 37.5 cm

Jug, 2001

woven tapestry

45.4 x 37.5 cm

Jug (detail), 2001

woven tapestry

45.4 x 37.5 cm

White work

White work, 2004-2008

wooden desk, book designed by John Nowland, blankets, mother-of-pearl buttons, pearlers suit made by Adriana Loro

72 x 120 x 43 cm

Kay Lawrence in pearlers suit with book ‘White’, 2008

artists book; text compiled by Kay Lawrence, designed by John Nowland

25 x 25 x 1 cm

No Work for a White Man

No Work for a White Man, 2006-2008

blanket under-trousers, mother-of-pearl buttons, photograph by Michal Kluvanek

200 x 200 x 200 cm

Pearl button under-trousers, 2006-2008

blanket under-trousers, mother-of-pearl buttons, worn by Tadashi Nakamura

90 x 54 x 3 cm

This everything water

The mother-of-pearl altar, Church of the Sacred Heart, Beagle Bay, 2004

This is rain, 2007

grey woollen blanket, mother-of-pearl buttons.

200 x 134 cm

This is rain (detail), 2007

grey woollen blanket, mother-of-pearl buttons.

200 x 134 cm

Bitter as brine, 2008

cream woollen blanket, mother-of-pearl buttons

161 x 188 cm

Bitter as brine (detail), 2008

cream woollen blanket, mother-of-pearl buttons

161 x 188 cm

Rising salt, 2008

grey woollen blanket, mother-of-pearl buttons

190 x 161 cm

Rising salt (detail), 2008

grey woollen blanket, mother-of-pearl buttons

190 x 161 cm

Water is everything, 2008

broken pearl shell (Pinctada maxima)

4 x 530 x 250 cm

Water is everything (detail), 2008

broken pearl shell (Pinctada maxima)

4 x 530 x 250 cm