VIRGINIA CUPPAIDGE EXHIBITED AT ART GALLERY OF NEW SOUTH WALES

Virginia Cuppaidge’s ‘Wakanda’ 1974, is exhibited in Naala Nura, lower level 1, 20th-century galleries. In May 1969, Virginia relocated to New York, considered the capital of the art world at the time. Typical of her work during this period, ‘Wakanda’ is a large-scale painting comprising an expansive colour-field that is intersected by parallel bands of contrasting colour running across the top and bottom of the picture. Although indebted to the influence of the New York School, the work’s horizontality and wide-openness are deeply suggestive of Australian landscape.