Episode in the Vessantara Jataka illustrating Prince Vessantara and his family being banished from his kingdom. Painting on cloth (detail).
Gill Green will present a large cloth banner painted with episodes from the Vessantara Jataka that she purchased in Thailand. Clearly of some age, its origin was assuredly Burmese because of its figures’ distinctive dress. This lecture will discuss research into the banner’s possible history that led to comparison with specific contemporary images created in other artistic media in Burma in the late 19th to early 20th century, including painted ‘family group’ portraits, and portraits on film taken by European photographers.
GILL GREEN
Gill Green is an independent scholar of Southeast Asian textiles specialising in Cambodian textiles. She has an MA in Art History from ANU and was an Honorary Research Associate in the Dept of Art History and Film Studies at the University of Sydney. Green has written two books Traditional Textiles of Cambodia (2003) and Pictorial Cambodian Textiles (2008). Most recently she was invited to contribute a chapter to the publication The Angkorian World (2023). She has published many articles in the TAASA Review as well as articles in Arts of Asia and Textiles Asia. She is immediate past president of TAASA.
Kalaga –shwe chi doe – detail of textile panel embroidered and embellished with sequins, stumpwork, gold thread and couching on velvet illustrating the Ramayana, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
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