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Five Aboriginal women artists from a remote NT community will exhibit their work in Paris
L-R: Elizabeth Kala Kala, Bridget Sampson, Jennifer Wurrkidj and Jesinta Lami Lami at the Darwin Passport Office. Source: Ingrid Johanson
A women's arts centre in Arnhem Land is sending five women to Paris for an exhibition and series of workshops - but getting passports for everyone proved a challenge.
Updated Updated 20/06/2019
By Evan Young
Art runs in Elizabeth Kala Kala’s family.
The 49-year-old's father was a bark painter, as are her older sisters. A few years ago, they showed her how to draw dillybags, a traditional Aboriginal bag woven from vines and grasses.
That led the Mayali, Kriol and Rembarrnga speaker, who hails from the Bolkjam region of Arnhem Land, to develop her own dillybag designs, which she now designs and screen prints.
“I love my designing,” she told SBS News. “I feel proud of myself because of my dillybags.”
Elizabeth Kala Kala Babbarra Women's Centre
Ms Kala Kala is among five artists from the Babbarra Women's Centre, a design studio in the Arnhem Land community of Maningrida, heading to Paris in October.
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The Babbarra Women’s Centre artists and team at Maningrida barge landing Babbarra Women's Centre
The centre works with dozens of local women in Maningrida, many of whom count English as their third or fourth language.
'Very proud'
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Deborah Wurrkidj at Bábbarra Women’s Centre with her Man-djarduk design, depicting the bush apples which grow on her Kuninjku country Babbarra Womens Centre