Prints from Yolngu Country Prints from Yolngu Country

Prints from Yolngu Country Prints from Yolngu Country

 
 

Prints from Yolngu Country

Opening at the Long Gallery, Faculty of Creative Arts from 6.30 pm on Saturday 27th March 2004. The exhibition runs until April 26 2004.

Three Yolngu artists, Watjumi (Marrnyula) Munungurr, Dhangal Gurruwiwi, and Djapirri Mununggurritj, whose work is represented in the Tracking cloth exhibition at the Wollongong city Gallery are currently artists in residence at the Faculty of Creative Arts.

As part of their residency they will be working on developing designs to be reproduced on cloth, an ongoing artistic exchange with Sue Blanchfield, visual arts lecturer in the textile studio. The exchange with the Yirrkala artists began in 1995 with a workshop in resist dying and batik conducted in the community. Successive workshops in printmaking on cloth and prints on paper were also conducted in Yirrkala throughout 1996 with many of the artists coming to Wollongong to make use of the studio facilities in the Faculty.

In 2001 Sue returned to Yirrkala and worked with the three artists specifically to produce the three works to be included in the Tracking Cloth exhibition. Wollongong City Gallery has recently announced its intention to purchase these works for their collection.

The artists will also participate in the Tracking Cloth Symposium which begins with artists talks at Wollongong City Gallery on Friday 26th March and continues on Saturday 27th of March at the Faculty of Creative Arts with presentation of papers, followed by a shibori workshop on Sunday. The artists will be in Wollongong until the 2nd April.

More information: about the Symposium and exhibitions at UOW's
Faculty of Creative Arts can be directed to Beth Dray on 42221 5853.

Last reviewed: 19 September, 2007