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Our life ... is land ... is culture

At 27, Samantha Hobson is one of a handful of young celebrated Aboriginal artists exhibiting widely both in her native Australia and abroad. Samantha Hobson began painting with the Lockhart River Art Gang, a group of young Indigenous painters from the remote Lockhart River community on the east coast of the far northern tip of Queensland. The Art Centre soon became the nucleus for a dynamic school of creative development.

Her work is inspired by the beauty of the East Cape and by the fast disappearing
traditional beliefs, with darker references to domestic violence and harsh social
conditions experienced by many Aboriginal peoples in isolated communities.

Her work is close to abstract expressionism, sitting outside the accepted
traditions of aboriginal iconography. Her works are held in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia, the National Gallery of Victoria, the Queensland Art Gallery, the Columbus State University,Georgia, USA and the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection, Virginia, USA.

Exhibition: Samantha Hobson: Our life ...

is land ... is culture, Exhibition dates: 11 September-11 October 2008, Opening hours: Tuesday � Saturday 12.30 � 5.30pm

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