Explore the Painting history of this artwork.
After being held in a private collection, Earth’s Creation was purchased by the Mbantua Gallery & Cultural Museum at the Lawson-Menzies auction in Sydney on 23 May 2007 for $1,056,000. At the time, this was the world record price for Aboriginal art and for a work by a female Australian artist.On the request of the National Museum of Australia, Earth's Creation was loaned immediately on purchase to tour in Tokyo and Osaka in Japan in 2007, and to be exhibited at the National Museum in Canberra in 2008. It was exhibited in the Great Hall of Parliament House in Darwin before heading to Alice Springs, where it had never been displayed publicly.
In 2015 the work was exhibited in the Giardini Central Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale, "All the World’s Futures", curated by Okwui Enwezor.Earth's Creation was sold at auction in 2017 to New York-based dealer Tim Olsen for a client for $2.1 million, breaking the record it had set in 2015 for the highest sale price achieved by an Australian female artist.
Venice Biennale National Museum of Australia Australia Okwui Enwezor Aboriginal art Mbantua Gallery & Cultural Museum Alice Springs Lawson-Menzies Canberra