Naomi Hobson
A Great-Grandchild caressing the hands of her Great-Grandmother, reveals a life journey of profound strength and resistance to the cruelty and burden of colonial history, a burden carried by generations and scarred on their bodies. As a Great-Grandchild traces and massages the welts and legacy of colonial cruelty on her Great Grandmother’s tiny frame and […]
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Naomi Hobson: Adolescent Wonderland
In Girlfriends, 2022, two young women stand shoulder-to-shoulder on a track running through a field of lush vegetation. They gaze directly into the camera. Their even eye levels pierce through the print paper, operating as the puncturing moment of affective connection between the viewer and the subjects of the image. Under the brims of wide sun hats, […]
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Naomi Hobson
The first thing that is surprising about Naomi Hobson’s Ritual – January First, currently exhibiting at Suzanne O’Connell Gallery, is that it is a show of photographs. Hobson, who has long painted intuitive, brightly coloured and somewhat abstracted landscapes (as described by the artist herself for Artist Profile), has become well-known for this work. Collected by […]
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Naomi Hobson Wins 39th Alice Prize
Congratulations to Naomi Hobson, a Queensland contemporary indigenous artist who won the 39th Alice Prize.
