Women with Clever Hands past and present at UQ Anthropology Museum

Event Details

Date:

Monday, 09 September 2013 - Friday, 14 February 2014

Time:

All Day

Room:

Anthropology Museum Gallery

UQ Location:

Michie Building (St Lucia)

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Full Description:: A dazzling array of fibre objects from Arnhem Land form the new exhibition Women with Clever Hands past and present at the University of Queensland Anthropology Museum. Hats suitable for the Melbourne Cup, handbags for shopping expeditions and feathered bodywear for ceremony are all to be found here with mats, baskets, string bags and a small menagerie of animal sculptures.

This exhibition with its emphasis on the tactility of making follows the recent exhibitions Musical Landscapes of Lihir and the visually complex In the red; on the vibrancy of things.

Arnhem Land is home for many clan groups from Kunwinjku in the west to Mara in the southeast, each expressing their identities through fibre work. The majority of the works in this exhibition were made by artists living in the communities east of Maningrida towards Yirrkala. Two-thirds of the objects originate from Lake Evella or Gapuwiyak; these are contemporary works made during the last fifteen years.