The Australian National Maritime Museum in Sydney is to open a new art exhibition for NAIDOC week bringing together some of Australia’s most renowned Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander female artists.
The exhibition, Unbroken Lines of Resilience: Feathers, Fibre, Shells, is to open on the first day of NADOC week (July 8) and will showcase the work of leading female practitioners in their fields of weaving and shell stringing.
The exhibition will highlight the unbroken practices of First Nation women who have carried their deep cultural connections and knowledge systems down through the generations for at least 65,000 years.
The exhibition will include intricate and beautiful body wear and adornments which are skillfully crafted by harvesting and processing organic and contemporary feathers, fibres and shells.
It will also feature domestic fishing implements made from organic material.
Aside from the exhibition, the Museum will also celebrate NAIDOC Week with Saltwater Sunday Celebrations on 8 July where museum-goers can try their hand at weaving at a special workshop given by Peta-Joy Williams, a Wiradjuri woman and Sydney based artist.
Visitors can also cruise on board the Tribal Warrior’s Mari Nawi (pictured) to Be-lang-le-wool (Clark Island) while enjoying stories of the Cadigal, Guringai, Wangal, Gammeraigal and Wallumedegal people of Sydney Harbour.
They can also take part in an Aboriginal cultural performance.
