Ghost net earrings - Tammy Lalara - Anindilyakwa Arts - 18-3546

Regular price $110.00

Artist: Tammy Lalara

Art Centre Community: Anindilyakwa Arts is a thriving hub of creativity located on Groote Eylandt and Bickerton Island in the Gulf of Carpentaria in the Northern Territory.

Code:18-3546

Size: 6.5 cm wide

Colour: Multicolor 

About:

A ghost net is a plastic fishing net lost or discarded at sea from a fishing boat that continues to drift and ‘fish’ on its own entrapping and killing marine life. In many Northern Australian communities tonnes of ghost nets – the majority from South East Asia – wash up on beaches, causing pollution, damaging reefs and killing wildlife. The name has evolved from the net’s ‘ghostly’ ability to fish by itself.

Ghost net weaving on Groote Eylandt has developed since a seeding project initiated by Ghost Nets Australia where contemporary fibre artists Aly de Groot and Cecile Williams worked with the rangers, school and weavers to experiment and explore with creative ways to utilise this environmental threat. Ghost net weaving has since been incorporated into the creation of baskets, jewellery and sculptures by Anindilyakwa women in continuous changing ways. Since 2017 these creations have begun to incorporate re-purposed textiles, bush dyed cotton and silks, occasionally even the artist’s skirt!

Artist: 

Tammy is a senior artist at the art centre. Tammy doesn’t speak or hear, but she learns incredibly quickly and will never stop making baskets. Tammy comes to work every day, and loves doing basket making and bush dyeing. It’s easy to spot a Tammy basket!

This biography was interpreted by Bernadette Watt, Tammy’s friend.

Community: Angurugu : NT

Language: Anindilyakwa

Clan: LALARA (WARNUNGWAMADADA)


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