Finding Place - Lisa Waup Solo

A Collection of Fine Baluk Indigenous Art

Finding Place - Lisa Waup Solo

A Collection of Fine Baluk Indigenous Art

Australian Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) artwork by LISA WAUP of Baluk Artists. The title is Woven Bridges. [273-17] (Found Materials and Fibres) Australian Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) artwork by LISA WAUP of Baluk Artists. The title is Woven Bridges. [273-17] (Found Materials and Fibres)
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LISA WAUP

Woven Bridges
273-17
Found Materials and Fibres
 Woven Bridges | 273-17
Found Materials and Fibres
 40 x 16cm | 15.75 x 6.3in (irregular)
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40 x 16 x 5cm

Woven Bridges depicts the strong traditional customary ties between the Torres Strait and Papua New Guinea (PNG), the two being interconnected. The Torres Strait was a land bridge that connected the present day Australian continent with PNG. The patterns etched into the porcelain represent the land bridges that traditionally connected the two together, before the land changed approximately 12,000 years ago. The land bridge was submerged by rising sea levels at the of the last ice age glaciation, forming the Strait that now connects the Arafura Sea and Coral Sea. For many generations the two have shared a complexed trade practice, and an intricate kinship relationship and social behaviours guided by a long held connection between rituals and customs. Today you will find many of these rituals and customs still take place.

Lisa’s ancestral connections are with the Torres Strait Islands and her children, their ancestral connections also extend to PNG, their place of birth through their father. The shape of Woven Bridges is from a series of art work depicting a shell that would have traditionally been worn in ceremony and most likely a traded object between the two communities. It is also inspired by the shell that Lisa was given through bride price being married to a Papua New Guinean, long before she knew that she had ancestral links between the two countries. The woven feathers link the two into one and the shells reflect the importance of the water especially as Lisa is a salt water person.

40 x 16 x 5cm

Woven Bridges depicts the strong traditional customary ties between the Torres Strait and Papua New Guinea (PNG), the two being interconnected. The Torres Strait was a land bridge that connected the present day Australian continent with PNG. The patterns etched into the porcelain represent the land bridges that traditionally connected the two together, before the land changed approximately 12,000 years ago. The land bridge was submerged by rising sea levels at the of the last...