Raiki wara : long cloth from Aboriginal Australia and the Torres Strait / Judith Ryan & Robyn Healy with contributions from James Bennett ... [and others]
A history of painted and printed textiles in aboriginal Australia / Judith Ryan -- Screenprinting as an indigenous textile art / James Bennett -- The story of Ernabella Arts / Winifred Hilliard -- Singing the silk: Utopia Batik / Jenny Green -- Utopia Batik: the halcyon days 1978-82 / Julia Murray -- Hanging raiki wara: articulating the cloth / Robyn Healy
Summary
This important exhibition celebrates the use of an introduced medium, which has encouraged a daring break with tradition in contemporary Aboriginal and Toores Strait Islander art. In focussing on painted and printed textiles and on the last three decades, Raiki Wara draws attention to the contribution of indigenous artists throughout Australia who have made this new medium their own
Notes
Exhibition opens at the National Gallery of Victoria on 4 Sept. 1998. It will travel to other galleries in Adelaide, Darwin, Cairns and Sydney during 1999
