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Tjanpi desert weavers

by Penny Watson

This book documents the contemporary fibre art of the Tjanpi Desert Weavers, showcasing grass sculptures and baskets created by Indigenous women in Central Australia. It includes translated artist commentary and explores the cultural and social impact of the enterprise.

Accession 12767 ISBN 9781921394461 Publisher MacMillan
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Tjanpi Desert Weavers is a dynamic employment enterprise within the Ngaanyatjarra, Pitjantjatjara, Yankunytjatjara (NPY) Women's Council. Today more than 350 women across three states are making spectacular contemporary fibre-art sculptures from locally collected grasses. This book presents a huge range of art works and the environments and circumstances of their making, along with elucidating commentary by the women artists, which has been translated from their various languages. -- blurb

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