16 AM 6151/09
Mick Quilliam The Honey Hunt 2009
Acrylic on cotton 815 x 815mm SOLD
Mick is showing how Aboriginal women hunt for honey. The U shapes show the women. They have kelp
(seaweed) baskets for storing the honey. The central circle depicts the group of trees where the bees have their
honey. To find the honey the women would attach a spiders cobweb to a bee then follow that bee back to the
hive. The cobwebs are shown waving in the wind. You can see the women's footprints as they follow that bee.
The bee's flight path can be seen as the continuous line in the background of the painting.