Student Workbook 2O14

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Yidinji mimjan njundu bama wabil Please do not take all the pamphlets wawal Gimuy yabanday bama bidjuga from the stalls. Your Gimuy Walubara Yidinji people teacher’s will collect one welcome you to our country Cairns. for your class room.

Hello teachers and students and welcome to the 2O14 Cairns Indigenous Art Fair

NAME OF EXHIBITOR • You can THINK about touching but 1 Yarrabah Art Centre and Menmuny Musuem, Yarrabah • WE DON’T TOUCH ARTWORKS 2 Girrigun Aboriginal Art Centre, Cardwell 3 Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne • You can TALK about what you see 4 Gab Titui Cultural Centre, Thursday Island 5 ProppaNOW Collective, Brisbane •TALK ABOUT EVERYTHING 6 KickArts Contemporary Arts 7 Erub Erwer Meta, Darnley Island • You might want to RUN but 8 Saltwater Murris Quandamooka Inc, North Stradbroke Island • YOU COULD BUMP SOMETHING 9 Lockhart River Arts Indigenous Corporation, Lockhart River 1O Pormpouraaw Art & Culture Centre, Pormpouraaw • You might want to LAUGH and BE 12 Umi Arts, Cairns 13 Michael Reid Gallery, Sydney HAPPY and POINT at art 14 Saltwater Gallery, Port Douglas 15 Yalanji Arts, Mossman Gorge • SO DO THAT 16 Baghulgaw Kuthinaw Mudh TSI, Badu Island • You will want to MEET ARTISTS 17 Wik & Kuga Arts Centres, Aurukun 18 Wei’Num Arts and Crafts, Weipa • BECAUSE THEY ARE REALLY 19 Martin Browne Contemporary, Sydney 2O Mornington Island Art, Mornington Island INTERESTING 21 Hopevale Arts & Cultural Centre, Hopevale 22 Umbrella Studio Contemporary Arts, Townsville DISCUSSIONS AROUND CONTEMPORARY ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER ART • What makes a work of art a work of art? • Is contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art defined by particular boundaries? • Who decides what an artwork means? Is it the artist, the critic, the Thoughts,Collect ideas, favourite ideas viewer, or history? artists, best practice, • Where do Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists find their inspiration? further research Draw, write, scribble, • What are the most important skills an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander make notes, annotate artist working today can have? • What materials and tools are Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists using to create art? • What is the difference between working alone and collaborating with fabricators, audiences, family members, others? • In addition to museums and galleries, what are other venues where art is exhibited? • What subjects, issues, and themes are important to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists? What subjects, issues, and themes are important to you and what connections can you make between the two? • Does a work of art need to be beautiful? Why or why not? Who defines what is beautiful? • Does contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art have a purpose, a role, a responsibility? HOW DO WE DISCUSS A SINGLE WORK OF ART • What do you see? •What do you hear? • What do you feel? • What might the art work represent? • What personal references do you make to this work? What does this work remind you of? • What relationship does this art work have to your own ideas, experiences, and opinions. • What questions does the art work evoke? • What does the work imply? • What visual, literary, and/or historical references are made in the work? What prior knowledge does the viewer need? • What choices or decisions have the artist made? such as materials, colours, size, placement, etc. • Why do you think the artist made those choices? • What can this work of art tell you about the artist, yourself, and/or the world around you? 1 YARRABAH ART CENTRE 5 proppaNOW Name Yarrabah is a Draw some things to put in this basket the artists is. who are in community of up to 3OOO What is proppaNOW people, predominantly different bout ggggggggg Gungandji and Yidinji. proppaNOW? Are ggggggggg Situated just south of Cairns, they an art centre? gggggggg Yarrabah is surrounded by Are they a gallery? ggggg tropical native bushland and WHAT ARE gggg mountain ranges. The Yarrabah THEY? gggggg Arts Centre offers many art gggggggg forms and cultural activities, w ggggggggg r including ceramics, painting, ite ggggggggg

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Gab Titui Cultural Centre supports more than 7O artists across the Torres Strait and Northern Sue Pascoe Lockhat River Art Centre Peninsula Area of Australia. The Centre has a Gallery Shop that provides an ethical outlet for the Torres LOCKHART RIVER ART CENTRE Strait artists to sell their work, maintaining at least 7O% of local Indigenous product. The sales made through Gab Titui create economic opportunities for local Indigenous artists, as a large percentage of Lockhart River Arts Indigenous Corporation is the earnings are directly returned to them, with the remaining amount reinvested into the operations home to world-renowned artists often referred of the centre. Gab Titui Cultural Centre supports local Indigenous artists to ensure that all the sales to as the “Lockhart River Art Gang”. The art proceeds go back into the Torres Strait community. Gab Titui will showcase 3 artist this year at CIAF: centre markets paintings, linoprints, carvings, • Edwin Turner is a wood carver, who lives on Hammond Island puunyas (grass baskets), ceramics, crafts and • Roseline Tomsana is makes glass bead jewellery and she live at Horn Island and Kubin community artifacts, all produced locally by our naturally • Anson Dorante makes Torres Strait Headdress – contemporary Dari or Dhoeri , he lives on talented artists and craftspeople. Thursday Island. Lockhart Art Centre has always been recognised for the ground breaking way in What materials and techniques has Edwin Turner used to make his work “Home Reef”? which its artists have explored traditional culture through cutting edge contemporary art. The Art Centre also facilitates cultural retention, dance and public art projects within the Lockhart community. ARTISTS Majorie Accoom Silas Hobson Irene Namok 9 Evelyn Omeenyo Josiah Omeenyo Lawrence Omeenyo Sue Pascoe Elizabeth Queenie Giblet Write words to describe this painting by Sue Pascoe. Is it a landscape? RESEARCHING ART CENTRES RESEARCHING THE ART CENTRES (research means to collect information on a topic) (research means to collect information on a topic)

Art Centre Name:______In the The Indigenous art centres are Art Centre Name:______Cairns Cruise Liner owned and governed by the communities ______in which they play significant roles. Art centres How many people does the Art Terminal are a number of provide places for the ethical production of How many people does the Art Centre employ?______authentic Indigenous artwork created by community Centre employ?______art centres from different based artists, and give emerging artists opportunities What are their jobs? communities. for professional development, training and What are their jobs? (what is their job title)______education. They are places where artists and their (what is their job title)______Find 2 art centres whose families are able to gather safely and work. They are ______places where young people can access positive role ______work you find interesting. models. The intended function of the art centre in a ______community is one of maintaining and strengthening ______Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ______cultures and identity. ______Write the names of 3 other art centres Write down 3 techniques or processes What types of art do they make there? that you will research back in class. that you would like to try back in class. What types of art do they make there? ______What special facilities do they have? ______What special facilities do they have? (eg kilns, printing press) (eg kilns, printing press) ______Sketch one of the artworks you find interesting. Sketch one of the artworks you find interesting. ______Make sure you write the artists name as well. Make sure you write the artists name as well. Who can use the art centre? Who can use the art centre? ______List 3 artists that they represent. List 3 artists that they represent. ______

Record what materials and processes the artist used Record what materials and processes the artist used ERUB ERWER META (Erub/Darnley Island) UMI ARTS 7 Erub is one of the most remote communities in Australia, located 16O km UMI Arts is the peak Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander 12 north-east of Queensland’s Cape York Peninsula. This beautiful volcanic island is arts and cultural organisation for Far North Queensland. UMI Arts has over 7OO individual Aboriginal and Torres situated in deep turquoise waters on the edge of the Great Barrier Reef. This year Strait Islander Members, all with traditional connection to the Far artists have developed a fashion line called Ailan Pasin. North Queensland region. A not-for-profit company, UMI Arts is proudly managed by an all- Indigenous Board of Directors and based in Cairns. Established in 2OO5, their mission is to assists Aboriginal and Torres Strait Design Islander peoples to participate in the maintenance, preservation ASK - What does UMI mean? Do the and protection of cultural identity. you think this is a good name? Why? UMI Arts also acts as the Cairns Arts Centre to provide support for material for Indigenous artists who live and work in Cairns. This year Cairns based members will be showcased. This is in this girl’s top, recognition of the dual role that UMI Arts plays, both as the peak Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander arts and cultural organisation tights and arm for Far North Queensland, and the “Art Centre” role, that UMI Arts provides to visual artists in Cairns. bands. These artists are: Arone Meeks, Bernard Singleton Jnr, Dave Daffey, Base your Gertrude Davis, Heather Koowootha, Jack Wilkie-Jans, Kathi Gibson, Kel Williams, Lisa Michl, Napolean Oui, Naseli Tamwoy, designs on Nickeema Williams, Paul Bong, Sam Savage, and Sharon Karami. things you can UMBRELLA STUDIO CONTEMPORARY ARTS find on a Umbrella Studio will be showcasing 22 2O linocut prints from Aboriginal beach. and Torres Strait Island high school students who are living and studying in Townsville. This project is collaboration between Umbrella Studio, Gallery Services Townsville and local high schools. Students had the opportunity to work at Umbrella and in their schools with master printmakers, Gail Mabo, Tommy Pau and Jo Lankester. Over 1OO students participated in the program in 2O13-2O14. Five works were selected from four schools to be showcased at CIAF alongside Murris in Ink printmakers. The Design 2 swatches of material based on aim of the program is to encourage the next other designs you find at the fair. generation of Indigenous printmakers in Townsville to be the very best they can be!

Back at school design a lino print of your favourite sport or a game you like to play or watch. Think about how you can show movement like these 2 jumping for the ball. Tristan Butler, Linocut print Kirwan SHS Abe Muriata Girringun Art Centre,2O14. Philomena Yeatman Yarrabah Art Centre,2O14. estern Australia your own section at the end at Brian Robinson’s sculpture - add at Brian Robinson’s and CONTRAST COMPARE baskets. of woven two versions at these Look and what is different. and is similar for what Look Brian Robinson, …and meanwhile back on earth the blooms continue to flourish 2O13, wood, plastic, steel, synthetic polymer paint, feathers, plant fibre and shell Artwork courtesy of the artist and Mossenson Galleries, © the artist, courtesy of Mossenson Galleries. Photograph courtesy Art Gallery of W Look Look

Christian Thompson He’s learning the language’,2O14. mean to you mean SOLID and how does it relate to the exhibition? does it relate to the and how is on the first floor. What does the word does the What floor. the first is on DISCUSS HOW TO LOOK AT VISUAL ART VISUAL AT TO LOOK HOW DISCUSS There are three exhibitions on at the Cairns Regional Gallery Regional Cairns on at the exhibitions three are There work of art. Describe the artwork. What are the artworks formal qualities: such as colour, composition, such as colour, artworks formal qualities: artwork. What are the Describe the media and materials. style, mood, artist’sConsider the and have they made, thinking, what choices What is the artist concept. have they used? what materials and process in which anthe work. What are the circumstances Identify the context of how the viewer sees a as when, where, and artwork is made, as well SOLID SOLID • • • I feel... I think... I see... Write what you see, think and feel about this art work by Christian Thompson what you see, think and feel about this art work by Christian Write Segar Passi Segar passi Koob ,2O14. Janet Fieldhouse Bride pendant series 1’ ,2O14. Janet Fieldhouse Bakei – 196Os. Mark and Memory Segar taught himself to Ceramic artist Janet Fieldhouse describes paint as a child and so he her work as ‘an expression of my Torres has been making art for Strait Islander heritage: the material over six decades. culture, rituals of social and religious life, and artefacts which are created to fulfil In the 196O’s he was the functional and spiritual needs of the one of eight Torres Strait peoples of the Torres Strait’. Island artists asked by This is a body of work arising from cultural anthropologist Margaret investigations undertaken by Fieldhouse. Lawrie to record, in These investigations have focused mainly paintings and drawings, the on three areas of Torres Strait Islander history, culture, flora and culture: women’s basketry; women’s dance fauna of the Torres Strait. adornments; and body decoration, in the The young Passi form of scarification – which is no longer made more than 135 practised – and ink tattooing. The ceramic pieces reinterpret traditional Torres Strait watercolours and sketches for Lawrie’s project. Some were depictions of bird and marine life, while Islander fibre baskets, as well as dance others told stories passed down to the artist by his elders on Mer (Murray Island). One of Segar’s armbands, and speak of the decorative particular interests, as an artist and as a cultural custodian, is weather conditions, and their importance and ritual aspects of scarification and in the lives of his people. He has devoted much time to communicating this knowledge to children on ink tattoos. Of her particular interest in Mer, and many of his pictures are themed around weather. scarification, Fieldhouse has said: The Segar Passi’s paintings, with their bold colours and directness of form and composition, are in some history of marking skin was unseen and not ways evocative of naive art, yet they possess a unique character that defies categorisation. And, while heard of in my generation. Instead, current generations use ink tattooing as a means of having a strong place within the artistic traditions of the Torres Strait, they are also recognised as expressing one’s heritage. My idea was to outstanding works of contemporary art. research and produce a body of work to bring back what was unseen marking, so that the next generation will know that scarification was once a strong part of our heritage. Look at the painting Koob. Write Sketch another of the works of Segar sentences about the weather you see. Passi. Include the name of the work. Janet Fieldhouse’s practice as a ceramicist both honours and maintains Torres Strait Islander culture. At the same time, Fieldhouse’s inventive melding of ancient forms and contemporary art idioms has gained ______her a reputation as one of Australia’s leading young contemporary artists. ______Sketch one of the works inspired by scarring. Create your own tattoo design based on a ______facial feature that is strong in your family - such as wide mouth or small eyes. ______Give these dogs features and decorate them with repetitive patterns