Monday, June 18, 2018

WOVEN WOMAN AND FRIENDS

 Cairns  Art  Gallery  
Made from wool, raffia and Tjonpi (desert grasses) , entitled   I am a Tjanpi Woman  2017, this is the work of  Tjunkaya Tapaya. Another photograph by Abra below provides  a different  perspective  and  greater detail of  the intricate work.
Tjunkaya , born 1947 in the  South Australian  desert,  brought up at the Ernabella Mission , is internationally  renowned   for  her  batik . In 1974 she and  other  Pitjantjatara  women  went  to Indonesia to study   batik  making . She  also works  in  acrylic, painting, weaving , ceramics  and wood carving . Her work has been exhibited  widely overseas  and is in  Australian galleries  and  the  British Museum