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Tony Park said Rimmer’s work looked so deeply into Africa’s heart that you could almost feel the heat and taste the dust
the work is warm in palette but lively in form
‘The Angelus’ is a deeply evocative image
It is evocative and mysterious – a vestige of feeling over exactness
The etching is a pure celebration of parenthood and encapsulation of childlike innocence
Yosl Bergner 'The Dedicated Photographer, from The Kimberley Album' figurative Tony Park said Rimmer’s workThe story behind this work is stranger than fiction. It begins in 1933 when Yiddish poet, playwright, essayist and activist Melech Ravitch (a pseudonym for Zekharye Khone Bergner) left Europe in search of a new home for Europes increasingly threatened Jewish population. He arrived in Australia with the fantasy that among the Kimberleys lied the Promised Land for his people. Decades later his son, the acclaimed artist Yosl Bergner, memorialised this
