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Ngaye ngawam nganang kunred kukimukken, kubba nakornamkuyeng karri. (I travelled a long way away, to that place with the tall tower

Luke Scholes, NATSIAA’s curator, said about her work:

“In 2019, a group of artists from the Bábbarra Women’s Centre in Maningrida, a remote Aboriginal coastal community in West Arnhem Land, travelled to Paris for an exhibition. Impressed after her visit to the Eiffel Tower, one of the group, Deborah Wurrkidj vowed to use it as inspiration. As she remembers ‘I saw that tower, and I said I’ll go back to Maningrida and I’ll make her, that tower. Yes, I can weave that tower in our way, our Aboriginal way…‘ The end result is a remarkably innovative sculpture made primarily with pandanus leaves collected around Maningrida.”