Ricky Maynard (born 1953)

Wik Elder, Gladys, 2000

from the 'Returning to Places that Name Us' series

silver gelatin photograph

95.0 x 120.0 cm
107.0 x 135.0 cm (frame)

edition: 14/15

Stills Gallery, Sydney (label attached verso)
Private collection, Melbourne, acquired from the above in July 2009

Returning to places that name us, Bett Gallery, Hobart, 1 January – 2 February 2000 (another example)
Ricky Maynard – Returning to Places that Name Us, Stills Gallery, Sydney, 25 July – 25 August 2001
Ricky Maynard: Portrait of a Distant Land, Musée du quai Branly, Paris, 30 October 2007 – 11 January 2008; and touring internationally (another example)
Half light: portraits from Black Australia, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 21 November 2008 – 22 February 2009 (another example)
Ricky Maynard – Portraits, Stills Gallery, Sydney, 15 July – 15 August 2009
Volume One: MCA Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 12 March 2012 – 31 July 2016 (another example)
‘My Country’: I Still Call Australia Home: Contemporary Art from Black Australia, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, 1 June – 7 October 2013 (another example)
Highlights from the MGA Collection, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne, 9 May – 12 July 2015 (another example)
Past Legacy: Present Tense, The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Melbourne, 1 September 2017 – 28 January 2018 (another example)
Tell: Contemporary Indigenous Photography, UNSW Galleries, Sydney, 6 January – 24 February 2018 (another example)
Queen’s Land: Black Portraiture: From late 19th century to the present, Cairns Art Gallery, Queensland, 17 May – 11 August 2019 (another example)
STORYLINES + SONGLINES: Contemporary Australian Art from the Arthur and Suzie Roe Collection, Justin Art House Museum, Melbourne, February 2021 – November 2022 (another example)
Longing for Home, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 6 March – 22 August 2021 (another example)
Who Are You: Australian Portraiture, The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Melbourne, 25 March – 21 August 2022 (another example)
Yiribana Gallery: opening collection display, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 3 December 2022 – 29 May 2023 (another example)
‘Snap Blak’, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, 30 August 2025 – 16 September 2026 (another example)
The Stars We Do Not See, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 18 October 2025 – 1 March 2026; and touring internationally (another example)

MacFarlane, R., ‘Images that stay in the memory’, Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, 8 August 2001, p. 16
Fink, H., et al., Tradition today: Indigenous art in Australia, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2004, p. 88 (illus., another example)
Ogden, J., Portraits from a Land Without People, Cyclops Press, Sydney, 2008, front cover (illus., another example)
Perkins H. and Jones J., Half light: Portraits from Black Australia, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2008, p. 95 (illus., another example)
Perkins, H., Art + soul: a journey into the world of Aboriginal art, The Miegunyah Press, Melbourne, 2010, pp. 34 (illus., another example), 35, 278

Other examples of this photograph are held in the collections of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, the Phillips Collection, Washington, The Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection, Charlottesville, the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney and Museum of Australian Photography, Melbourne