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 History. [164-17] (Found Materials and Fibres) Australian Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) artwork by LISA WAUP of Baluk Artists. The title is Woven History. [164-17] (Found Materials and Fibres)
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LISA WAUP

Woven History
164-17
Found Materials and Fibres
 Woven History | 164-17
Found Materials and Fibres
 30 x 15cm | 11.81 x 5.91in (irregular)
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30cm x 15cm x 10cm
Porcelain, Glaze, Emu and Parrot Feather, Cottons, Pandanus, Jobs Seed

Woven History depicts, the Sunrise (front) and Sunset (back), which details the strong traditional customary associations with the Torres Strait and Papua New Guinea (PNG), the two being interconnected. The Sunrise symbolizes the waters of the Strait, where the Coral and Arafura Seas meet in one of the most fragile and intricate waterways in the world. You will find the rise of hundreds of islands, islets, cays, reefs and sandbanks. No two islands are identical, each being shaped by its unique landscape, stories and history. Sunset symbolizes the connection that PNG has with the Torres Strait, they maintained a complexed trade practice, with intricate kinship relationships and social behavior which was guided by long held rituals and customs, many of these customs and practices still continue still this day. My ancestral connections are with Torres Strait, my children their ancestral connections also extend to PNG, their place of birth through their father. The shape of Woven History depicts 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.

30cm x 15cm x 10cm
Porcelain, Glaze, Emu and Parrot Feather, Cottons, Pandanus, Jobs Seed

Woven History depicts, the Sunrise (front) and Sunset (back), which details the strong traditional customary associations with the Torres Strait and Papua New Guinea (PNG), the two being interconnected. The Sunrise symbolizes the waters of the Strait, where the Coral and Arafura Seas meet in one of the most fragile and intricate waterways in the world. You will find the rise of hundreds of islands,...