Mirka Mora 'Elephant Doll' landscape titled and numbered in pencil

titled and numbered in pencil in margin below image: 29/40 Late Afternoon V

His subject

caramel and orange in colour and supple

After initial success as a 'Field' artist in the late 1960s

This is a moving document of a young man’s promise

Mirka Mora 'Elephant Doll' landscape titled and numbered in pencilMirka Moras interest in dolls and puppets, or soft sculpture, began with her theatre and mime training. As an adult she also collected antique dolls, before finally embarking on creating them herself in 1970. The characters she birthed in cloth felt, to Mora, like substitute children; at the time, her sons were living apart from her. Indeed, despite being mere paint and cloth, Mora's dolls felt alive. When they were first exhibited in 1971, John Reed