Wadeye women, young and senior, spent the week designing and painting canvases which depict connections to country. Many of the women incorporated personal totems into their work. Artworks will be for sale at Mindil Beach Market on Thursday 13th August.
Artists from the Ngepan Patha Women’s Centre spent last week learning and refining their etching skills with artists from Northern Editions. Here are some of the creations which the women hope to have editioned.
A group of six weavers from the Wadeye Palngun Wurnangat Association are busy preparing for a week-long collaborative workshop with Indigenous weavers from Dandenong, Victoria. The combined group will complete an artist’s residency at Eltham College and share their stories to create a narrative sculpture that will be auctioned in September.
Here are some images of our weavers preparing the thithimampe (sand palm) for weaving.
