Recent Fabrics from Wadeye Women’s Centre

08 March - 30 March 2013

 

The Wet Season reinvigorates the landscape and brings new life across the Top End.  As you fly into the community of Wadeye at this time of year, you see vast stretches  of green – brilliant carpets of light and dark  punctuated by mirror-like giant ribbons of water stretching across the land and isolating the communities beyond them.   ‘The Wet’ brings new growth, new ideas and inspiration. Palngun Wurnangat Association Inc (which translates to ‘women working together’ in Murrinhpatha ) is proud to share with you, the designs and first-time screened fabrics of new young artists of the Wadeye region , along with some of the traditional designs that are well known and loved.

 

Design is sometimes literal and sometimes conceptual  – drawing reference from the hint of a shape or the idea of movement. This exhibition includes the work of several younger artists of the Wadeye region, who’s work represents the beginning of that contemporary line of thought in the artist’s mind – sometimes it’s a story, sometimes it’s just a feeling.