Mirka Mora 'Portrait in Chiaroscuro' mixed media with trees wilting over the

with trees wilting over the glass-like water

The dunes and pyramids in the background are a reference the Suez Canal which many of the immigrants had to cross on their way to Australia prior to the wide-spread popularity and affordability of air travel

Recent Australian Art at the Art Gallery of New South Wales (1973)

Petersburg and the Correr Museum

This time however

Mirka Mora 'Portrait in Chiaroscuro' mixed media with trees wilting over theThe 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 an act of resilience in light of her familys plight during the Second World War. She spent her adolescence hiding between French villages and forests evading capture; her immediate family were condemned