• Title
  Shellwork model of La Perouse Mission Church, by Esme Timbery
• Creator
  Esme Timbery
• Call number
  LR 124. Status: On Loan, Museum of Contemporary Art (Sydney), MCA Collection: Artists in Focus, 24 May 2024 - 27 January 2025
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  2018
• Type of material
  Objects
• Reference code
  9619244
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 model - 21 x 9 x 19 cm - white shells adhered to blue cloth-covered cardboard
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Esme Timbery (1931-2023) was a Bidjigal elder and artist, renowned for her shellwork. Aunty Esme was a descendant of the Timbery family from La Perouse, and she learnt her shellwork skills from her mother, grandmother and aunts. Her great-grandmother, Queen Emma Timbery, exhibited shell works in London in 1910. Marilyn Russell, Aunty Esme's eldest daughter, continues the shellworking tradition. Esme Timbery died on 6 October 2023, aged 92.
  Reference: 'Vale Esme Timbery, Bidjigal Elder and renowned shell artist'. UNSW Sydney. Accessed 14 May 2024
• Collection history
  Created by Esme Timbery, with contribution by Marilyn Russell, for display in Sydney Elders: Continuing Aboriginal Stories exhibition, held at the State Library of New South Wales, 6 October 2018 to 22 March 2020.
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Copying Conditions
  In copyright:
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy copyright holder
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Russell, Marilyn
  
• Subject
  Church buildings--New South Wales--Models.
  La Perouse Mission Church (Sydney, N.S.W.)
  Shellcraft--New South Wales.
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Sydney Elders: Continuing Aboriginal Stories
  MCA Collection: Artists in Focus
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE19105606

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