This basket is created from hand dyed raffia veggie dyes, which depict the “colours of the country we live in.” [The] “spirit wheel represents all the Aunty’s and Nanna’s that watch over us from the Dream Time.”
Name: Frances Castles
Biography:
"I was actually born in a small town called Walgett in New South Wales. My family originated from hear but I didn’t know that until I was here. I’ve been tracing my family and the furthest relative is a great grandmother, Lizzie James Thargomindah from Queensland. She taught my grandmother how to weave and my grandmother passed it to me."
Frances is a Kamilaroi and Martu woman
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Wirnpa Wirnpa is an extremely significant cultural site and a soak surrounded by a cluster of salt springs and located within a salt lake at the northern end of the Percival Lakes region. Wirnpa lies Read more…