Mirka Mora 'Bird and Girl' women artists What is intrigue amputated from

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evoking “the things we look through when we think we should be looking somewhere else

whimsical or melancholic - Blackman's work continues to move all those who encounter it

plate size 29 x 21cm

'Ilford Turkey' 2006

Mirka Mora 'Bird and Girl' women artists What is intrigue amputated fromThe visual world of Mirka Mora, matriarch of the Melbourne art scene, was fantastical. Creatures human, animal and hybrid dance throughout, inspired by Eastern European fairy tales, angels and ancient mythology, as well as Moras own fecund imagination. Moras art was an act of resilience. Her family narrowly escaped the Holocaust, with Mora spending her adolescence hiding between French villages and forests evading capture. Her work is set in this