Riverland: Yvonne Koolmatrie Subject / International Art Maddestmaximvs is spectacularly illustrated and

Maddestmaximvs is spectacularly illustrated and includes essays by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev and Blair French

Pointing to Indigenous leaders

the 184 full-page portraits of real and imagined drovers and rural stockmen display a childlike awe of the quintessential Australian characters of an earlier time

Featuring ninety-six authors—including art critics and historians

illuminating Mirka’s significance as one of Australia’s most compelling

Riverland: Yvonne Koolmatrie Subject / International Art Maddestmaximvs is spectacularly illustrated andRiverland: Yvonne Koolmatrie charts the decades long practice of the renowned Ngarrindjeri weaver. Embedded in the traditions of Ngarrindjeri culture and animated by her boundless imagination, Koolmatrie's elegant woven forms are created using the labour intensive process of hand harvested native river sedge from the banks of the Murray River. It charts her development as an artist, pays homage to other Aboriginal artists as her key influences,