UNTITLED, 2003
PADDY NYUNKUNY BEDFORD
ochres and pigment with synthetic binder on composition board
79.0 x 98.0 cm
inscribed verso upper right: PB-CB-8-2003-3 / PADDY BEDFORD / JIRRAWUN ARTS
Jirrawun Arts, Kununurra, Western Australia
Private collection, Queensland
Storer, R., Paddy Bedford, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 2006, p. 160 (illus.)
'Innovation and experimentation are fundamental to Paddy Bedford's practice as a contemporary artist. The appeal of his work to international audiences and contemporary art collectors worldwide rests in part on this sense of continuous innovation that resulted in a new exciting visual vocabulary that does not compromise Gija law and tradition and which resists comparison with modern Western art canons. His formal language, typified by a symbiosis between bold and powerful forms and an elegance and harmony in composition, evokes rock escarpments and other amorphous features of the Kimberley landscape.'
Petitjean, G., 'Paddy Bedford', Beyond Sacred; Aboriginal Art, The Laverty Collection, Deutscher and Hackett, Melbourne, 2014, p. 27