G.W. BOT

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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 especially 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.

Printmaker G.W. Bot was born in Pakistan and currently resides in Canberra. She has taught printmaking in Australia and India and exhibited in Australia and internationally in London, Paris and Los Angeles. Bot’s work has been included in group shows at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra and the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney. She was awarded the Tweed River Prize in 1992 and the Canberra Critics Award for visual arts in 1994. A monograph of the artists work titled ‘Gardens: Rites of Passage’ was published in 2001. Bot’s work is held by the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; the Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane; the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide; Artbank, Sydney; Parliament House, Canberra and internationally by institutions including the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Museum of Modern Art, Osaka, Japan and the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing.