Sarah Ashley's Katherine Prize Entry

"Two Young Boys"

Bush Toys at Minyerri School

Grass Baskets at Jilkminngan

BUSH TOYS @ Barunga Festival

This workshop was packed both days at the festival. Andrina and Dorcas from Ngukurr helped make the workshop a fun and creative activity for everyone. Next week we will be taking the workshop to Timber Creek festival on Saturday 13th June then down to Minyerri to spend two days at the school.

Sarah admired my latest work "town +kantri". This work that speaks of the subtle cultural exhcange present in Katherine town. She told me i have " clever pinger!"

11th May 2009. Workshop at Ghulmarn Culture Centre. We were joined by Noreena Armstrong . Sarah showed her how to make a Mawkouy "devil devil".  Teressa  joined us and made a pandanus mosquito!  I showed them part of my latest work using pandanus to form text for a piece for a show at CAST Gallery in Hobart in July.. Good Day!

Visit to Beswick. Stripping Pandanus with Sarah and Patsy at the Cultue Centre and cooking up colour with Lucy at Dook Creek

Opening Night 21st Jan 2009

 

Roy Ashley and Tom E Lewis make music at the opening. 

Ahsa and Lucy Cameron stand in front of their work.

The Pandanus Project 

The Pandanus Project showcases fibre works resulting from a six month artistic exchange between weavers from the Beswick community  and fibre artist Adrienne Kneebone.  The artists  worked with Adrienne to develop new work , ideas and techniques  and easily adapted to contemporary fibre art forms, fusing traditional knowledge with their new skills. This project will be used as a platform for future projects and  to raise awareness of fibre as a sustainable medium  in  contemporary art.