Colleen St. Ledger’s “Little Light” (Limited Edition A2 Print)
Specs: 42 x 56cm giclée print, on Hahnemuhle archival 100% cotton 308gsm paper.
Digital album included with purchase.


Colleen St. Ledger’s “Little Light” (pictured) is a painting from the second of her two exhibitions held in the 1980s, “Rembetika”and “Flowers In The Grass”.

Colleen’s work featured on the cover of our ‘Picture Music’ release from 2022 and also on the original cassette from ’86. She initially came in contact with the Picture Music crew as she rented and worked from a small back room at their studio space in Brisbane.

Colleen’s paintings were inspired by the music and poetic-lament songs of Rembetika (songs of the Greek underground 1925 - 47). There were approximately 40 paintings, with a common theme being the indistinguishable and hypnotic female character juxtaposed against a backdrop of colourful patterns, flowers and tobacco.

Colleen was well regarded within the Brisbane creative community. Her works were well received engaging attention from high profile private collectors. Queensland Art Gallery acquired her 1986 International Year of Peace Calendar.

Whilst researching and archiving the music of the Picture Music collective it was hard to look past the distinctive cover art of Colleen and her impact in the significance of the release, luckily while we were locating the master tapes in Rainer Guth/Jan Archurch’s garage “Little Light” was located.

More challenging was locating Colleen. Luckily her niece Harriet reached out on social media and we were able to connect with Colleen, where we caught up in Brisbane and decided to collaborate on a small run of 33 hand numbered and signed prints.

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