ReCoil: Change and Exchange in Coiled Fibre Art

ReCoil: Change and Exchange in Coiled Fibre Art introduces some of the most recent, innovative and important developments in contemporary Australian fibre practices.

One of the central themes of the exhibition is the coiled basketry technique and the way it has spread and diversified over the past two decades. This basketry technique was traditionally practiced by Aboriginal people of south east Australia and was transplanted by missionaries many years ago to Arnhem Land and has spread rapidly along lines of kinship and through skills exhchanges and workshops.

Non-Indigenous Australian fibre artists have also been influenced by the coiling technique and ReCoil highlights this inter-cultural exchange by featuring works of 12 Indigenous and three non-Indigenous artists', with eight of the 15 artists featured in the exhibition from the Territory.

Artback NT Curator Margie West will provide a free curatorial floor talk in the gallery at 11am, Saturday 28 November. All welcome and bookings are not required.

The development and tour of this exhibition has been generously sponsored by Visions of Australia, an Australian government program supporting touring exhibitions by providing funding assistance for the development and touring of Australian cultural material across Australia. Additional support has been provided by the Northern Territory Government through the Department of Natural Resources, Environment, The Arts and Sport (NRETAS), ERA and Rio Tinto.

Image Credits: Kantjupayi Benson
Ngaanyatjarra language
Blackstone (Papulankujta)
Truck and Driver
2007
Grass, raffia, string, wool, wire, mesh, wheels, 112 x 190 x 75 cm

Courtesy Tjanpi Desert Weavers