Bern Emmerichs

Stiff Competition for Justice and Fortitude

2021

painted ceramic (fired) and frame embellished with seashells

30.00 x 90.00 cm

The two female bushrangers at the top are:
1. Mary Ann Bugg (1834-1936), A bold Worimi woman, born in Berrico near Gloucestor in New South Wales. A mother of fifteen children, with relationship to the bushranger Fred Ward who’s alias was Captain Thunderbolt.
 
2. Jessie Hickman (1834-1905), Known as The Lady Bushranger. Jessie established herself as a leader of a gang of cattle duffers in the 1920s. She lived also in New South Wales in the area that is now known as the Woolemi National Park.

The male bushrangers depicted below the women were operating in that same area at that time.

$12,500.00