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Dawn Arrival, Purnululu

© the artist. Image credit: Bridgeman Images

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This depiction of Purnululu may seem like a Surrealist fantasy or a space wars film-set but it is firmly based in the reality of one of the wonders of the Western Australian outback: an area of giant bell-shaped rock mounds some 350 million years old, striped black and orange with lichen and silica and known locally as the ‘Bungle Bungles’. Maclaurin chartered a helicopter for an hour to allow him to make aerial sketches of the rock formations and to give him a sense of scale. Since painting this work Maclaurin has settled in Australia and has now gained residency there.

The Fleming Collection

London

Title

Dawn Arrival, Purnululu

Date

1999

Medium

oil on linen

Measurements

H 243.8 x W 191.1 cm

Accession number

FWAF/RF979

Work type

Painting

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The Fleming Collection

14 Buckingham Street, London, Greater London WC2N 6DF England

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