Floating life: contemporary Aboriginal fibre art

156 157 Acknowledgments Contributing authors Sponsor Gadens Lawyers Lenders Bandigan Art Morning Star Collection — Suzanne Lowe and John Colquhoun Project support The many artists, communities and their representatives are gratefully acknowledged for their assistance. Thanks also to the many individuals and institutions who generously assisted with the provision of images, permissions and research for this project, particularly: Aboriginal and Archaeology Collections, South Australian Museum Aboriginal and Pacific Art, Sydney Australian Plant Image Index, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Parks Australia, Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts Will Stubbs, Buku Larrnggay Mulka Art Centre, Yirrkala, NT Durrmu Arts, Peppimenarti, NT Elcho Island Arts, NT Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne Girringun Aboriginal Corporation, Qld Kowanyama Aboriginal Land & Natural Resources Management, Qld Maningrida Arts and Culture, NT National Library of Australia South Australian Museum Library University of Queensland Anthropology Museum Brenda and Steve Westley Whitney Museum of American Art Queensland Art Gallery Board of Trustees Professor John Hay, ac (Chair) Dr Amanda Bell Tim Fairfax, am Mark Gray John Lobban David Millhouse Avril Quaill David Williams Executive Management Team Tony Ellwood, Director Andrew Clark, Deputy Director, Programming and Corporate Services Lynne Seear, Deputy Director, Curatorial and Collection Development Celestine Doyle, Manager, Marketing and Sponsorship Curatorial Team Diane Moon, Curator, Indigenous Fibre Art Julie Ewington, Curatorial Manager, Australian Art Bree Richards, Curatorial Assistant, Contemporary Australian Art Exhibition Project Team Tarragh Cunningham, Exhibition Manager and staff Renai Grace, Principal Sponsorship and Grants Officer and staff Andrew Dudley, Head of Registration and staff Don Heron, Design Manager and staff Amanda Pagliarino, A/Head of Conservation Liz Wild, Conservator, Sculpture and staff Kate Ravenswood, Head of Access, Education and Regional Services Donna McColm, Senior Program Officer, Education, Children’s Art Centre and Membership and staff Publication Publication committee Tony Ellwood, Director Lynne Seear, Deputy Director, Collection and Curatorial Development Julie Ewington, Curatorial Manager, Australian Art Diane Moon, Curator, Indigenous Fibre Art Coordination: Judy Gunning, Head of Information and Publishing Services Copy editing: Kylie Timmins, Publications Assistant Project assistance: Abigail Fitzgibbons, Project Officer, Publications Design Manager: Don Heron Design: Lisa Boxshall, Designer Photographs of art works in the Queensland Art Gallery Collection by: Natasha Harth, Photographer, GoMA Selected bibliography compiled by: Amanda Gardner, Librarian Merrkiyawuy Dhalulu Ganambarr is the younger sister of Nuliny, and was educated at Dhupuma College and Nhulunbuy High School. She became a registered nurse and went on to graduate as a teacher, and has worked at the Yirrkala Community Education Centre for almost 30 years. She is the author of several academic papers, an artist, elder and mother of three. Barbara Nuliny Ganambarr is one of the 35 natural children of deceased artist Mowarra Ganambarr, oam . In her early years she was brought up at his homeland at Rorruwuy on Arnhem Bay. She is director of Bawaka Cultural Tours to her homeland and co-author to the traditional basket-weaving handbook, Weaving Lives Together at Bawaka , and is an artist of bark, weaving and prints. Anna Haebich is a multi award winning author known for her innovative approaches to Australian history and culture. She has worked for many years with Aboriginal people and is part of the Nyungar community through marriage. Anna is a Research Professor at Griffith University and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities and the Australian Academy of the Social Sciences. John Kean is an exhibition producer at Museum Victoria, and was Museum Victoria’s Thomas Ramsay Science and Humanities Scholar 2004. In 1990 he curated ‘East to West: Land in Papunya Tula Painting’ at Tandanya, the National Aboriginal Cultural Institute in Adelaide, South Australia, and in the late 1970s he was Art Adviser for Papunya Tula Artists Pty Ltd. Elina Spilia is an art historian, writer and researcher who works across the disciplinary and industry domains of culture, ecology and law. She has worked with and for Yolngu people in northeast Arnhem Land, and is currently completing a PhD at the University of Melbourne while working in the field of environmental law. Diana Wood Conroy is an artist and writer with degrees in archaeology and art. Her concern with Aboriginal communities began in 1974 when she was coordinator of Tiwi Designs, Bathurst Island, Northern Territory. An archaeological approach informs her critical writing on textiles and tapestry. She is Professor of Visual Arts, Faculty of Creative Arts, University of Wollongong. Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art Julie Ewington, Curatorial Manager, Australian Art Angela Goddard, Curator, Australian Art to 1970 Ruth McDougall, Curatorial Assistant, Australian Centre of Asia Pacific Art Bruce McLean, Associate Curator, Indigenous Australian Art Diane Moon, Curator, Indigenous Fibre Art and curator of ‘Floating Life: Contemporary Aboriginal Fibre Art’ Francis E Parker, Curator, Contemporary Australian Art Bree Richards, Curatorial Assistant, Contemporary Australian Art Lynne Seear, Deputy Director, Curatorial and Collection Development Ian Were, Editor Overleaf Jeannette James Palawa people TAS b.1952 Traditional Palawa shell necklace (detail) 2006 Black crow and green maireener shells from Flinders Island with synthetic thread 182 x 1.5cm Acc. 2007.205 Purchased 2007. Queensland Art Gallery Foundation