On Monday 4th July we listened to a talk given by local elder and artist Desiree Walker.
Desiree Walker is an Auntie within the Indigenous Community and has devoted herself to learning how to make authentic indigenous products and handiwork as they were in the past. She has made herself familiar with weaving techniques used in basket making and fish traps. She has used this knowledge to not only to reproduce artifacts but to also use these methods in the production of artworks that stand on their own.
Desiree's work is on display in the Gallery under the title Interwoven:Stories of Country from North and South.
Desiree Walker is an Auntie within the Indigenous Community and has devoted herself to learning how to make authentic indigenous products and handiwork as they were in the past. She has made herself familiar with weaving techniques used in basket making and fish traps. She has used this knowledge to not only to reproduce artifacts but to also use these methods in the production of artworks that stand on their own.
Desiree's work is on display in the Gallery under the title Interwoven:Stories of Country from North and South.
The title for 'First Mondays' on 7th August is 'Cooper and Spowart Artists Talk'. Local Benalla artists Victoria Cooper and Doug Spowart 'traverse themes, both personal and political, in the investigation of 'site' and 'place' in the Australian landscape....Their work is resolved as visual narrative in the form of online media, wall works, artists’ books or photobooks.' Join other members for coffee and a chat at the Munro & Sargent cafe after the session.
Neville Gibb
Neville Gibb
