Basket | Katherine Coulthard | Tjanpi Desert Weavers meta-science-week-25 digital printing to reduce waste

digital printing to reduce waste

artists' practices & other happenings around Sydney

and the land is a part of them

Issue #1 contains articles on Tacita Dean

Eric Michaels

Basket | Katherine Coulthard | Tjanpi Desert Weavers meta-science-week-25 digital printing to reduce wasteThis vibrantly hued woven basket has been handmade by Katherine Coulthard, an artist from the community of Finke, in the Northern Territory. Weaving with fibre in this way has become a fundamental part of Central and Western desert culture and draws on the traditional practice of making manguri rings a ring worn on the head made of grasses and cloth. Here we see traditional weaving techniques re framed using a mix of traditional and contemporary