Kaiela Arts Shepparton
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Ocean Waves The artwork represents my family sitting and camping on the beach watching the waves rolling into shore.
Ocean Waves The artwork represents my family sitting and camping on the beach watching the waves rolling into shore.
Ocean Swirls The artwork depicts water swirls within the ocean as we look down into the water.
Gwarda Gona brown snake The brown snake and the course of the old river before the cadell fault 28,000 years ago the earth rose 200 ft and pushed the water and out on country so the old people dug out the new course of the river to let the flood Read more…
Bitjimidja Tree Goanna Tree Goanna Hunting eggs in the grass lands and climbing gumtrees looking for nests also symbolic for doing the goanna dance cooroboree. Young man doing a cooroboree. the eight eggs represent the nest and the eight clans of the Yorta Yorta. Ulupna, Kwat Kwat, yallaba, Pangerang, also Read more…
Bathi (Pandanus Basket) Bathi are woven from the split leaves of the Screw Palm (Pandanus Spiralis). Coil weaving was introduced to Arnhem Land in the 1930s. It was adapted from techniques used by Indigenous women throughout South East Australia.
Bathi (Pandanus Basket) Bathi are woven from the split leaves of the Screw Palm (Pandanus Spiralis). Coil weaving was introduced to Arnhem Land in the 1930s. It was adapted from techniques used by Indigenous women throughout South East Australia.
Mindirr (Pandanus Bag) Miṉḏirr (dilly bags) are made from gunga (Pandanus spiralis), baḻgurr (kurrajong) and natural bush dyes. The body of the miṉḏirr is made from gunga, and the handles from baḻgurr. Once the gunga fronds and baḻgurr bark have been collected, they are stripped and prepared then boiled with the dyes. Miṉḏirr were used traditionally for every day Read more…