Michael Leunig 'Catkin' mid century modernism ” serves as a metaphor

” serves as a metaphor for both exposure and concealment

creating an almost monastic atmosphere that lingers long after witnessed

Australian artist John Perceval

He melds the erotic and foreign

Wald’s recent works have explored her relationship to land and its legacy

Michael Leunig 'Catkin' mid century modernism ” serves as a metaphorMichael Leunig was an iconic Australian cartoonist, writer, painter, philosopher and poet, best known for his cartoons published in the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. Spanning the political, cultural and philosophical, his visual world was at once tender and perceptive, forever preoccupied with the idea of a sacred inner life. In this quintessential Leunig etching, a curious hybrid form unfurls from a field of vivid orange. Part person, part cat,