How It All Began: Tiwi Textiles and Prints draws on Diana Wood Conroy’s archives including Tiwi textiles from 1974, diaries, tapestries and watercolour painting, and from the joint book Tiwi Textiles, co-authored with Bede Tungutalum (launched December 2022). The artists use cloth and paper to tell tales of encounter, of Country, of creative cultural survival and economic adventure, of uneven government initiatives and of Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists seeking new spaces in the art-world. This exhibition makes manifest historical interactions across cultures, feeding pathways to voice, treaty and truth.
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