Overview
This exciting new Art Box for Kids project invites children to discover the work of Trawlwoolway/Pairabeenee and Laremairremenner artist Mandy Quadrio. Quadrio’s people have been using Tasmanian bull kelp as a material for thousands of years. The kelp is used in many ways, including to make carriers to hold water, food or seeds. As part of this project, you can create your own unique paper carrier to hold your special objects and treasures.
The creation of cultural objects using customary techniques, including the use of bull kelp to make water carriers, is a practice held by Tasmanian Aboriginal women. In this children's activity, Trawlwoolway/Pairabeenee and Laremairremenner artist Mandy Quadrio draws on this practice to share and increase general understandings of Tasmanian Indigenous cultural knowledges more broadly. This project has the endorsement of the Tebrakunna Circle of Elders and the artist’s Trawlwoolway/Pairabeenee family and community from north-east Tasmania/Lutruwita/Trouwerner.
FREE activity. Drop-in anytime between Mon-Fri 10:30am-2:30pm or Sat-Sun 10:00am-4:30pm.
Booking required for groups of 10 people or more. Contact QAGOMA at 07 3840 7255 or groupbookings@qagoma.qld.gov.au to book.