A place to share
2018
- Medium
- ungaire (reed), pandanus, wool, cotton yarn, raffia, Red Emperor fish scales, sea ropes
- Measurements
- 134.5 × 133.5 × 11.5 cm (variable) (installed)
- Place/s of Execution
- Quandamooka, Queensland
- Accession Number
- 2020.145
- Department
- First Nations Australia
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, Victorian Foundation for Living Australian Artists, 2020
© Elisa Jane Carmichael/Licensed by Copyright Agency, Australia - Gallery location
- Not on display
- About this work
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A place to share represents a place of coming together. The work was inspired by First Nations women coming together to connect and create, often sitting in a circle to share culture and knowledge. The weaving was influenced by an overseas trip that the artist took to Bougainville, as part of the Women’s Wealth Project in 2018–19. For this project, Carmichael brought with her the traditional weaving fibre from Quandamooka Country, ungaire (swamp reed), which is woven throughout the work together with the contemporary materials of raffia, wool and yarn. She was gifted a 142 piece of noni (dyed pandanus) from Bougainville, the maroon material that forms the inner circle.