Woven photograph of weaver Robyn Djunginy by Fiona McDonald
Fibre
A series of articles about weaving and fibre work produced by Indigenous and non-Indigenous female fibre artists
Making and Breaking: Cross Fibre
Artlink. Summer, 1995
A PAPER DRESS TO CALL HER OWN
Eyeline No 33 Autumn-Winter 1997
Review of ‘Dress - Ups’ by Darwin paper artist Winsome Jobling who made twelve archetypical dresses from bleached banana fibre pulp using the tray of a ute as the vat, to create a frock salon hung with oversize fashionable shrouds.
Lena Yarinkura and the Maningrida Innovators
Art Monthly. no 107, 1998
Shoes that move: Judith Durnford, moves, moves not
Eyeline No 47 2001
Review of Judith Durnford’s first solo exhibition shown which opened in Darwin, and toured to Japan. She made one hundred and thirty-five pairs of shoes from paperbark sewn together with cotton and pandanus fibre and installed them on the floor on paper mats made of photocopied scribbled drawings. The review mentions earlier works by Durnford.
judy holding dilly bags
June 2002
Essay commissioned by the artist for an exhibition at Gallery 101, Collins St, Melbourne
Reading the vest: one reading among many
Nov-Dec 2003
Catalogue essay for ‘Captured’ an installation by Judith Durnford, with projections by Bronwyn Wright. 24 HR Art, Darwin.
Judith Durford lives between Darwin and Lombok and her vests are sculptural constructions made from a range of natural and man-made materials readily found in both locations - seed pods, feathers, coconut shell, ring pulls, human hair, flywire mesh, palm string, cigarette packets- which reference Durnford’s complicated response to moving between Australia and Indonesia.