Vicki and Nannette demonstrate how to use indigenous techniques to fashion tools and art work out of grass and kelp (Credit: Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, 2009)
Tayenebe
Art Gallery 4
4 July 2009 - 25 November 2009
Tayenebe is a Tasmanian Aboriginal word meaning ‘exchange’.
Tayenebe is also the name of an art project underway in which Tasmanian Aboriginal women are reviving traditional fibre skills as part of a larger process of reclaiming culture.
Integral to Tayenebe is sharing between people and across time.
A series of fibre workshops facilitated by Arts Tasmania will culminate in an exhibition opening at TMAG during NAIDOC week 2009, and tour major Australian cultural venues from January 2010.
proposed tayenebe travelling schedule
1 March – 16 July 2010 – National Museum of Australia, Canberra (confirmed)
21 August – 21 November 2010 – Queensland Museum, Brisbane
30 August – 8 November 2011 – Koori Heritage Trust, Melbourne
28 November 2011 – 8 January 2012 – Flinders University Art Museum, Adelaide
Tayenebe - education resources
Tayenebe - website