In 2009, the International Year of Natural Fibre and the International Year of Reconciliation, an artists’ exchange project was arranged, supported by the Department of Culture and the Arts. This enabled a small group of women artists from the coastal plains of Perth to visit and work with senior women artists from the remote community of Warburton in the Gibson Desert. This exhibition is the result of that meeting.
Sujora Conrad is an artist and the Warburton fibre art project coordinator. Sujora has had a fifteen year association with Warburton Community. Holly Story arrived in Australia in1970. She finished formal art training at Curtin University School of Art in 1991. Since that time her practice has encompassed textile, print, installation and, most recently, video work. Her interest is in the interface between the human and natural worlds. She is represented in both state and national collections. Bronwyn Goss makes small installations which reflect on the nature of belonging as different stories meet in country. She also writes about the cultural role of art with attention towards the function and purpose of big cultural stories. She taught for many years in the School of Art at Curtin University and her work is represented in six Australian public collections. Nalda Searles has been involved in the soft arts as a maker for 30 years. She used found, salvaged and donated textiles mixed with other items to make pertinent statements. Her exhibition Nalda Searles Drifting in my own Land is currently on national tour. She has a long association with indigenous women through the fibre arts and in particular with the painter Pantjiti Mary Mclean. http://www.holmesacourtgallery.com.au/
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