Shirley Macnamara, of the Indjalandji-Dhidhanu people, Queensland and Alyawarr people, Northern Territory, presents woven fibre works in ‘Layered Threads’. Working with spinifex, emu feathers, bone and ochre, Macnamara draws focus to the environment, and her people’s histories including Aboriginal military service. The exhibition features a centrepiece described by Macnamara as ‘a landscape of spinifex rings’, and photographs she took of the spinifex landscape and its wildlife. The artist will also undertake a residency at the Museum assisted by Copyright Agency Cultural Fund.
Shirley Macnamara, Well of remembering, 2016, spinifex, bullock bone cross, emu feathers and fixative, 28 x 26 x 20cm. Collection of the University of Queensland, purchased 2017. Courtesy the artist, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne and University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane
University of Queensland Art Museum
18 August to 25 November, 2018
Queensland
