Collection
Return to Frazer Cave
Peter Taylor
1982
- Peter Taylor
- b.
- 1927
- Title:
- Return to Frazer Cave
- Production date:
- 1982
- Accession No:
- 83/23
- Measurements:
- 2155 x 1490 x 1130mm
- Media:
- Enamel and acrylic on Huon and celery top pine wood
Collection Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth. Purchased from Monica Brewster Bequest in 1983.
This work by Peter Taylor deals with the international fight to preserve the ancient rain forests of south-west Tasmania. The threat to the unique wilderness area is the proposed construction of a hydro-electric power station. As well as the natural environment, this development threatened caves in the area which had been settled by Indigenous Australians for the previous 18,000 years.