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This basket was exhibited in the touring exhibition Tayenebe. Over the past three years more than twenty five Tasmanian Aboriginal women have journeyed together across the island in a determined process of cultural retrieval. The impetus for the Tayenebe project was the desire to reconnect with the cultural craft of Ancestors. Thirty seven Tasmanian Aboriginal woven-twined baskets, created during the 1800s from lily, iris, sedges and rushes, that survive in museums internationally, particularly inspired these makers. The exhibition showcases the unique connections that Tasmanian Aboriginal people have with the land and the sea. The exhibition Tayenebe: Tasmanian Aboriginal women’s fibre work includes baskets and kelp carriers made by more than twenty women aged from 7 to 87 years of age, alongside historical pieces and contemporary and historical interpretive material. The exhibition explores links and changes across time, and celebrates the reinvigoration of fibre and kelp work that is unique to Tasmania. This project is the result of various forms of interaction. Individuals and institutions have worked together; women have worked to teach and re-learn fibre skills, and to learn about the plants once used everyday and the places that grow them. The Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, the National Museum of Australia and Arts Tasmania co-managed the project to ensure that women involved had support and opportunities to express ideas from making to exhibiting to writing and planning future work. The exhibition opened at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery on 4 July 2009 and will tour nationally in 2010 and 2011, funded by Visions Australia. 25 March–25 July 2010 – National Museum of Australia, Canberra 21 August–21 November 2010 – Queensland Museum, Brisbane 26 March–5 May 2011 – Australian National Maritime Museum, Sydney 30 August–23 October 2011 – Koorie Heritage Trust, Melbourne 16 December 2011–19 February 2012 – Flinders University City Gallery, Adelaide ‘It’s like your life. You look after your baskets, you look after your family, you look after your threads of your life, which you weave with your reeds.’ Eva Richardson was born in Hobart in 1936. She is a descendant of the Trawlwoolway people of Cape Portland in north-east Tasmania. Eva’s early childhood was spent in and around Hobart, which afforded her almost unlimited access to resources from the land and sea. Her father was a proud Tasmanian Aboriginal man who possessed a sound knowledge of the bush. It was through her father that Eva began to learn the skills that she employs today as an artist. Eva works with media including fibre, natural dyes, clays, kelp, fabrics and natural found materials to create work that includes water carriers and woven baskets. Eva sees her work as a ‘hobby’ because her art making ‘comes from the heart and not the head’, though she has been making fibre work seriously since the early 1990s. In 1994 Eva attended the first fibre camp organised by Jennie Gorringe, and met experienced fibre workers including Gwen Egg. Eva stresses that it was the sharing of Gwen’s knowledge and skills at this camp that led to the reclamation of the Tasmanian fibre arts. A passionate believer in the passing on of knowledge, Eva shares her skills with the young by working in the Aboriginal Education Speakers Program. She is also an active member of her local Community and a committed worker for Reconciliation. Eva has exhibited widely and her work is held in collections in Australia and internationally.
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