ReCoil: change & exchange in coiled fibre art : Artback Northern Territory Arts touring exhibition 2007.

A$85 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Darwin, NT : Artback Northern Territory Arts Touring, 2007. Large quarto (275 x 225 mm), pictorial stiff wrappers, pp. ii, 107, colour illustrations throughout, map; foreword by Louise Partos; introduction by Louise Hamby; essays by Margie West, Thisbe Purich, plus a series of studies on individual fibre artists; a fine copy of a scholarly and spectacular catalogue, inscribed on the title page by exhibition curator Margie West for collectors Dr. Colin and Liz Laverty, in appreciation for your enthusiasm and support . Exhibition catalogue of a range of coiled fibre art, from baskets to three dimensional forms to flat sculptural pieces; includes work of twelve Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists from Arnhem Land, the desert regions of the Northern Territory, South Australia and Western Australia; includes the history of coiling in South East Australia, how it came to Arnhem Land, the introduction of dyes and the revival of basketmaking in South East Australia. (NLA)

• Binding: Hardcover

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