Piper Stewart
Murrumbidgee Regional High School
Woven Together, My Culture, Our History
Textile and Fibre
While on a family holiday to the Northern Territory, exploring and connecting to my Aboriginal culture, I participated in traditional basket weaving workshops. This link to my culture inspired my body of work. I was also motivated by learning that British museums hold many valuable Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural heritage artefacts, including some from my family. These artefacts were “Gifted, sold, exchanged and bartered by Indigenous people, and accepted, bought, collected and taken by travellers, colonists, explorers, missionaries, officials and others”. The incorporation of these powerful words, shadowed over my weaving, demonstrates how Aboriginal culture has been mistreated and misinterpreted since colonisation.
