7^th October – 3 November

Venue: Exhibition Space, Building 418:108 School of Design and Built Environment, Curtin University

The String Craft: Bilum + Dilly Bag exhibition is a platform to promote the value of indigenous practice through its focus on the PNG Bilum (string bag) and the Aboriginal Dilly Bag. The dilly-bag inspired art features installations from First nations WA artists Lea Taylor and Katie West and a selection of dilly bags and textile artworks from Northern Territory artists from Bula’bula Arts Ramingining and Babbarra Women’s Centre, Maningrida.  The bilums come from a grouped private collection and cover a range of traditional and contemporary bilum styles, patterns, fibres and functions of bilums found across the culturally and linguistically diverse country of PNG.

String Craft: Bilum + Dilly Bag is part of and supported by IOTA24 – the Indian Ocean Craft Triennial, a celebration of contemporary craft that takes place in Western Australia every three years. The theme for IOTA24 is ‘Codes in Parallel’ and runs from August to November.

Learn more about the exhibition here.

Please direct enquiries to: g.koczberski@curtin.edu.au