Eddie's title: All-about 'e bunch up top 'la hill — make'm ladder go 'la sky, follow 'm up woman — 'e climbin' up. climbin' up nothing! All t'em woman 'e stop 'la sky — You see 'm night time? 'e there alright — 'la star ... Artist's note The story tells of a husband who unsuccessfully pursued his wives who had fled into the sky region where they turned into stars. There are several versions of this old legend. The one that recounts the women as turning into seven stars has parallels with the Pleiades story of Greek myth. Living ladders constructed of human forms cunningly arranged were used in ceremonies to make contact with the celestial regions, to reach high surfaces on which to paint symbols, or to deposit human remains in a safe niche. The extensive body of work, visual and written, created between the years 1994 and 2000 that comprises The Art of Eddie Burrup is the final phase in the evolution of Elizabeth Durack’s oeuvre. In spirit and purpose it aligns with all that came before; it can be traced back some 60 years. It was nascent in the 1930s and probably first emerged in recorded visual form via The Whirlwind drawings and paintings of 1940–41. Towards the end of her life — through her daemon, Eddie Burrup — Elizabeth Durack distilled a lifetime of living and learning, of giving and taking, of exploring, reflecting upon and of recreating lost worlds of an ancient culture. Her art is homage to this culture. It also honours and fulfills an exceptional talent. In the relatively few examples presented here The Art of Eddie Burrup clearly references works from The Rim, the Rim of our brittle and disintegrating world — a continuum that emerged in the early 1970s. (References to other phases may be more oblique but in all, the same mind and eye and hand are evident). As in The Rim works, where Dantean images float out of caves and darkness, The Art of Eddie Burrup exists within its own disturbing milieu. (http://www.elizabethdurack.com/artworks_series.php?curPage=1&series_id=33)