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Embroidered artwork on Croatian linen
Gina Sinozich2010
Australian National Maritime Museum
Sydney, Australia
It is part of a collection of artworks, miniature models and mementos relating to Gina Sinozich’s migration from Istria, Croatia, to Melbourne, Australia on the Lloyd Triestino liner SS NEPTUNIA in 1956-1957, her reflections on her childhood before World War II, her later life in Sydney and her first return visit to Croatia in 2004.
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- Title: Embroidered artwork on Croatian linen
- Creator: Gina Sinozich
- Date: 2010
- Location: Sydney
- Type: Embroidery
- Significance: This item is part of a highly significant collection of new artworks, models and mementos that gives three-dimensional form to the stories and memories explored in Gina Sinozich’s series of paintings commissioned for the ANMM collection in 2003. Gina started painting in 2000 when she was 70 years old, after her husband Eugen was diagnosed with dementia and she recognised the urgent need to capture her memories of their life together and their family’s migration from Croatia to Australia in 1956-1957. While Gina’s commissioned series focused on the journey from Istria to Melbourne on the Lloyd Triestino liner NEPTUNIA, this new series of intimate, powerful – and tactile – works provides a different perspective by revisiting her childhood in Istria before World War II, her settlement in Australia and her first return visit to Croatia in 2004.
- See institution's online collections: http://www.anmm.gov.au/collections
- Medium: Linen
- Dimensions: 3000 x 2600 mm
- Credit line: ANMM Collection Gift from Gina Sinozich
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