Artist unknown

28 x 8cm

Tjanpi (Grass) meaning 'grass' in Ngaanyatjarra, Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara languages, emu feathers

Tjanpi Desert Weavers represents more than 400 Aboriginal women artists from 26 remote communities on the NPY lands. The NPY lands cover approximately 350,000 square kms across the tri-state (WA, SA, NT) border region of Central Australia. Tjanpi field officers regularly travel to these communities and purchase artworks from the artists, supply art materials, hold skills development workshops and facilitate grass collecting trips. These trips also allow a number of other cultural maintenance activities to take place.

Tjanpi also runs public weaving workshops, a public gallery in Alice Springs, it regularly exhibits work in national galleries right through to facilitating commissions for public institutions and collectors.

Text © and courtesy of Tjanpi Desert Weavers, NPY Women's Council.