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Fibre Weaving exhibition
continues its national / international tour in the Desert
The exhibition will tell for the first time the comprehensive story of the baskets. The show will highlight the influences and events that shaped the growth and movement of this craft as it rapidly spread enormous distances across the deserts of Central Australia. Exciting, humorous and anecdotal, Manguri Weaving provides a glimpse into the lives of Aboriginal desert women. We will see through the story of the baskets, photographs and accompanying text, the women’s skill at weaving the traditional and modern. These are women who travel, camp, support their families and still depend on the bush for the old and the new ways.
An inaugural Desert
Weavers’ Festival will be held on 11, 12, 13 November,
with fibre basket and weaving workshops planned for women and young
people to exchange and share weaving skills – all visitors are
welcome. School children free – Adults $50 per day. This exhibition has been kindly sponsored and supported by Visions Australia, the Commonwealth funded arts touring program, the Australia Council, for the Arts, Country Arts WA Regional Arts Fund and Shire of Ngaanyatjarraku. For further information please contact curator Thisbe Purich Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Women's Council on: Phone: +61 8 8950
5452 Fax: +61 8 8952 3742 Tjulyuru Regional
Arts Gallery Gallery hours: Monday – Friday 8.30am – 4.30pm Weekends & Public holidays – by appointment.
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Manguri
Weaving is a touring exhibition featuring over eighty baskets and grass
sculptures made by the Ngaanyatjarra, Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara
women of the Central and Western Deserts of Australia. The exhibition
is a permanent collection of the significant baskets and sculptures
that were purchased by the Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara
Women's Council since 1995.
It
will be the first time Ngaanyatjarra audiences will see the exhibition
at their own Tjulyuru Regional Arts Gallery, Warburton, in the vicinity
where the early basket weaving workshops were held with women at Blackstone
Community in 1995. The show will be officially launched at 10 am on
Wednesday, 12 November 2003 by Ms Maggie Kavenagh, long serving Coordinator
of the Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Women’s Council.
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