The Hunt!

May 12, 2023

“The Hunt”, 2023
100 x 150cm
Painted on a commercial reproduction of an altered “A break away” Tom Roberts, 1891.
(original held in the collection of the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide)

The original “The Breakaway” depicts a heroic horseman trying to save sheep from drowning while they rush to find water in the dam in a drought. My version – “The Hunt” – reimagines this scene with a giant mother witchetty grub towering over the parched landscape watching her grubs go out on their first sheep hunt.

In the foreground, we see one of the young ones howling over a succesful kill while one sibling catch their breath and the other keeps the chase going. The mother shows a suitable level of pride at her brood.