G W Bot
Landscape Manuscript 2006
71.5 x 102 cm
Linocut on Magnani paper
According to Aboriginal totemic belief, each member of a clan inherits a totemic relationship with a particular plant or animal of the region.
I like this idea of oneness with the environment.
Where I live wombats are particularly prevalent and they have become my totemic animal.
The earliest written reference to a wombat occurs in a French source where it is called “le grand Wam Bot”, and hence my exhibiting name -
G W Bot
I was born in Quetta in Pakistan of Australian parents and studied art in London, Paris and Australia graduating from the Australian National University in 1982.
My drawings were first published in a book in London in 1980, and since 1985 I have worked as a full time artist.