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Handwoven Dragonfly

Fibre Art is an ancient Aboriginal women’s craft that is still made today using the same techniques as their ancestors. Making fibre art is labour intensive and much care and fine needlework is required to ensure the finished object is both functional and beautiful. Fibre art from Ghunmarn Culture Centre includes dilly bags, floor mats, bush fans, woven creatures found in the landscape, plants such as yams (bush potato), baskets, place mats, and spirit figures such as mermaids and Mukuys. Natural pandanus fibre (Mukarra), is used to make much of the fibre art produced by the artists of Djilpin Arts. Women collect the pandanus by pulling from the top of the pandanus tree, then stripping and drying the leaves before they are dyed with natural bush colour collected from the Beswick surrounds.

Categories: Djilpin Arts Aboriginal Corporation

Name: Julie Ashley

Language: Rittharrngu

Community: Wugularr (Beswick)

Biography:

Julie was born on Elcho Island off the coast of Arnhem Land. She was taught to weave with pandanus and to collect the natural bush dyes by her mother. Julie has created a range of contemporary fibre artefacts such as lampshades, hats, mobiles and quirky animals including fish, turtles and dragonflies. She has also designed for Djilpin's textiles and jewellery ranges range and created a number of limited edition screen prints. Julie leads weaving workshops and dances Bunggul.

Julie has conducted weaving workshops in Canberra, Darwin and Wugularr. As well as being an artist, Julie has been an Arts Worker at Djilpin Arts and currently a Board Director.

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