Last Waterhole
Artist
Treahna Hamm
Date1992
Object number00018457
NamePrint
MediumInk on paper
DimensionsImage: 620 x 310 mm
Overall: 760 x 560 mm, 1 kg
Sheet: 762 x 563 mm
Display Dimensions: 768 x 565 mm
Overall: 760 x 560 mm, 1 kg
Sheet: 762 x 563 mm
Display Dimensions: 768 x 565 mm
ClassificationsArt
Credit LineANMM Collection
DescriptionAn etching by Dr Treahana Hamm titled 'Last Waterhole'.
The image depicts single yellow oval in centre of image in black ink on yellow background. Image has large bodied snake in middle with 26 smaller snakes around edge froming a mesh-like pattern, all these are within the body of another snake forming a border.HistoryDr Treahna Hahm is a Yorta Yorta woman and lives in Wagga. She like other young children from Indigenous
families, was taken from her community to live within white communities in the hope that she would lose her
Aboriginality. This has been one of the main influences on her work "The Last Waterhole". This print deals with her Aboriginal family on the Murray River and her non-Aboriginal family in Wagga.SignificanceIndigenous Australians have a long and deep relationship to the water, through personal experiences and cultural influences. In modern art pieces, by using non-traditional art mediums, Indigenous artists are making fresh combinations of evocative and strong works that reaffirm this connection to water.
