David Rankin 'Brown Lily' pop including the State Library of

including the State Library of Victoria and the Burnie Regional Art Gallery in Tasmania

With a title that playfully alludes to the intense vigilance of the birds

the memory of Gallipoli—Nolan’s early landscapes reveal the foundation on which these legends were built

” serves as a metaphor for both exposure and concealment

David Rankin 'Brown Lily' pop including the State Library ofBrown Lily is a portrait of David Rankins wife, Lily Brett. An author and Holocaust survivor, Rankin is profoundly inspired by his wifes life, illustrating two of her books about the Holocaust and producing a series pivoted around Jewish and matrimonial themes. This particular work (in a different colour) even graced the cover of Brett's 2021 memoir 'Old Seems to be Other People'. Wide eyed, world weary and washed in colour, Rankins depiction is a