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Zoom Tote Bag - Deanne Gilson, Gum Blossom
Zoom Tote Bag - Deanne Gilson, Gum Blossom
Zoom Tote Bag - Deanne Gilson, Gum Blossom

Tote Bag - Deanne Gilson, Gum Blossom

$84.95
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Description

This tote bag has been made in collaboration with artist Deanne Gilson, featuring Gilson’s artwork Karrap Karrap Beenyak Mundi-gurrk - Baskets of Knowledge.

Dr Deanne Gilson is a proud Wadawurrung woman and an award-winning visual artist who lives and creates from her ancestral home of Ballarat in Victoria. Her multidisciplinary art practice interrogates the colonial disruption of her family and explores ways in which contemporary art can create a platform towards healing, acceptance and re-claiming back cultural identity often drawing upon traditional knowledges of her ancestors.

Specifications

Cotton canvas
Dimensions: 43 x 47cm
Made in Melbourne and exclusive to NGV design store

Photography: Liz Sunshine

About the artwork

The dilly bags and baskets in Deanne Gilson’s artwork reclaim knowledge, traditional business and practice, re-enriching lives with culture, Country and connection through sharing women’s knowledge once again. Gilson’s artwork includes Indigenous plants that highlight their uses from medicine and healing plants to bush tucker, artefacts, Kulin creation stories and deep connection to Country.

Deanne Gilson Before Joseph Banks, Our Baskets and Plants Held Sacred Knowledge 2022; charcoal, synthetic polymer paint, 18ct gold leaf and fool’s gold on canvas. Purchased, Victorian Foundation for Living Australian Artists, 2022
© Deanne Gilson.

Tote Bag - Deanne Gilson, Gum Blossom

$84.95

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