Explore the Red Centre - Tjanpi Desert Weavers
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Tjanpi Desert Weavers is a social enterprise of the Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (NPY) Women’s Council created to enable women in remote central deserts to earn their own income from fibre art.
Tjanpi represents more than 400 Aboriginal women artists from 26 remote communities on the NPY lands. Tjanpi field officers regularly travel to these communities and purchase artworks from the artists, supply art materials, hold skills development workshops, and facilitate grass collecting trips. These trips also allow a number of other cultural maintenance activities to take place.
Tjanpi also runs public weaving workshops, has a public gallery in Alice Springs, and regularly exhibits work in national galleries right through to facilitating commissions for public institutions and collectors.
Our Neighbourhood Community Grants Winner - Tjanpi Desert Weavers
The 2016 Our Neighbourhood Community Grants Winners have been announced. The grants give a helping hand to small groups working together to build better neighbourhoods. See how one organisation in Central Australia used the funding from last year's grants in their area. Learn more:
Good Spender: Tjanpi Desert Weavers
Tjanpi Desert Weavers is a dynamic social enterprise established by the Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Women's Council.
Tjanpi was created to enable women living in remote communities across the Central and Western Deserts to earn their own income from fibre art. You can find their products at:
Margaret Smith Christmas message 2015
NPY Women's Council and Tjanpi Desert Weavers director Margaret Smith at Tjanpi corner in Alice Springs with a special Christmas message for all our supporters
Aboriginal Art in Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia
Go along for the ride when actress Zoe Naylor explores Australia's Northern Territory.
Follow Zoe as she explores the outback town of Alice Springs, Australia's Aboriginal art capital. Zoe travels to the West MacDonnell Ranges and learns how the land inspires local Aboriginal artists. She visits Tjampi Desert Weavers to view the collection of Aboriginal craft and goes on a fun-filled mountain biking tour of Alice Springs with a local indigenous guide.
Unearth Aboriginal art in the Red Centre:
Aboriginal Artist Lilly Campbell Napangardi 0935
Artist: Lilly Campbell Napangardi
Dreaming: Hail Storm
Painted in Alice Springs 2011
Contact: info@desertartcentre.com.au
Australia's Red Centre: My Alice Springs with Miriam Pickard
Join Alice Springs local Miriam as she explores Alice Springs, the famous outback town and Aboriginal art capital of Australia's Northern Territory.
Follow Miriam to Alice Springs attractions like the vibrant Aboriginal art galleries. Join an Aboriginal dot painting or basket-weaving workshop, enjoy the vibrant dining scene, or have a go at adventure activities including bushwalking, mountain biking or camping in MacDonnell Ranges, Tanami Desert and Simpson Desert.
What will YOU love about Alice Springs?
Pro bono project in Alice Springs with Artists in the Black
Property lawyer Chris Rumore travelled to Alice Springs to work on a pro bono project with Artists in the Black, an initiative of the Arts Law Centre of Australia to help indigenous artists who would not otherwise have access to legal assistance or legal advice. Chris has worked for Colin Biggers & Paisley for 44 years and described his involvement with the project as one of the most challenging, humbling and different experiences in my legal career.
Chris worked on a broad variety of matters during his time in Alice Springs, including drafting wills, advising in family disputes over art works and royalties, dealing with matters related to the different arts centres, such as the question of whether the artists were contractors or employees, regulatory requirements, GST matters, supply contracts and contracts with major arts centres in the capital cities. What he found was that his advice and assistance were very gratefully accepted.
According to Chris, this kind of hands-on exposure broadens a lawyer's horizons and deepens understanding of how legal services affect people in their own environment. His work on the project gave him an opportunity to witness how indigenous people try to better themselves in a fairly hostile environment and in difficult economic circumstances. There is very little money to fund projects of this type.
Chris observed that indigenous people want to make a contribution and they want to keep their culture alive through their art. In his view, lawyers should be encouraged to assist with these endeavours. Not only does it help indigenous artists, which is very worthwhile, but it also helps to add value to the associations which we partner with. The Arts Law Centre derives a really practical, hands-on benefit from having Colin Biggers & Paisley assist with this kind of project.
According to Chris, working with Artists in the Black showed him in a very practical and stark way how our pro bono efforts can make a difference and how much of a difference our charitable foundation is making to the lives of people less fortunate than ourselves.
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Speaking at a Prescribed Area People's Alliance conference, Alice Springs, Sept 2008. Footage courtesy of Elleanor Gilbert, Enlightning Productions.
Desert Mob 2016
Desart and Araluen Art Centre invite you to attend Desert Mob 2016; September 8-10.
Exhibition opening - 5:30pm September 8
Symposium - Stories from Artists - 10-3:30pm September 9
Market Place - 10-2pm September 10
For more details visit desart.com.au; or facebook/desertmob
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Quandong, The Indigenous Australian Aboriginal Jewelry
Earth Girl Indigenous Australian Aboriginal Jewelry, presented by Fremantle Historical Bus Tours, is available at E-Shed Markets Peter Hughes Dr, Fremantle WA 6160 (Opened in 1929).
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Indigenous Art speaking to The World
Rob Russell is a partner in the relatively new - and relatively different - Sydney based art gallery, Piermarq. His gallery is building a large international client base for the large scale works from the artist Tommy Watson. InsideArt talked with Rob Russell in Alice Springs as he prepared for the gallery's first major Tommy Watson show...
Flinders - Tayenebe
Tayenebe, a Tasmanian Aboriginal word meaning 'exchange', celebrates the revitalisation of Tasmanian Aboriginal weaving that has been taking place in recent years. In a project that saw a group of 35 Tasmanian Aboriginal women and girls travel across Tasmania, sharing stories and practicing the traditional Aboriginal fibre skills of their ancestors, new objects were created that now sit at the heart of this exhibition. Exquisite baskets and kelp water carriers in contemporary and traditional styles are shown with a historical basket made around 1845 which has never before been seen outside Tasmania. This project is a collaboration between the artists, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, National Museum of Australia and Arts Tasmania.
Warakurna Artists: Our Story, Our Art Centre
This YouTube video and important message is from the artists of Warakurna Artists Aboriginal Corporation.
We are an Aboriginal owned and operated Art Centre, Ngaanyatjarra Lands, Western Australia.
The short film is about our Art Centre and also shows examples of paintings by some of Warakurna Artists leading painters. They include wonderful works by Ivan Shepherd, Tommy Mitchell, Peter Tjarluri Lewis, Tjapartji Bates, Myra Cook and Carol Maayatja Golding.
The great sound track played on this film is from the CD -
UPK#2 Tilun Tilun ta
This brilliant CD was produced by Nganampa Health Council as part of a collaborative ongoing music project by APY musicians.
The tracks on the CD reflect 'community life and ways of making things better'.
Copyright 2003 Nganampa Health Council
Available from -
nganampahealth.com.au
Tel: (61+) 08 8952 5300
For more information about Warakurna Artists and Western Desert Mob please visit -
westerndesertmob.com.au
Palya and enjoy our video!
Indigenous Culture and Art of Australia
Indigenous Culture and Art of Australia
Aboriginal Art
At the next Sydney Rare Book Auctions sale (September 25th 2011) we have these highly unique and collectible pieces of aboriginal bark art. They are from Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory and were originally collected in the 1970's.
Abandoned cars in desert turned into 'ghostly' works of art
Abandoned cars in desert turned into 'ghostly' works of art
Updated November 06, 2017 08:58:21 The roads of the remote APY lands, which straddle the Northern Te...
Southern Desert Ranger Forum
In June 2017, more than 80 indigenous rangers and other land managers met at Ilkurlka Roadhouse in the Great Victoria Desert in Western Australia to share knowledge, learn skills and build capacity for looking after country.
Hosted by the Spinifex Rangers and organised by the Indigenous Desert Alliance and Ten Deserts Initiative, the first Southern Deserts Ranger Forum was an important event for galvanising partnerships across southern Western Australia, Northern Territory and western South Australia.
Filmed at the inaugural Southern Deserts Ranger Forum held at Ilkurlka Roadhouse in the Great Victoria Desert in June 2017.
Filmed by NG Media for the Arid Lands Environment Centre
This film made possible by funding provided by The Nature Conservancy.