Nalda May Searles

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  • Artist (Painter)
Nalda May Searles, craftworker and painter, has also taught herself basket-making. She and Pantjiti Mary Mclean did a collaborative work in the 2000 Australian Heritage Commission exhibition at Canberra. The first exhibition to contain a section for indigenous/non-indigenous collaboration.
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Craftworker and painter, taught herself basket-making at Western Australia in 1980 and still makes them (2000) as well as painting. She uses natural materials and techniques in her baskets: coiling, twining and netting. Examples include a grass dilly bag of sedge grass coiled with linen (?) strings, galls from Cajebut trees – all traditional Pilbara materials – and a palm fibre basket. She held a basketry workshop on 30 September 1988 and was a visiting artist at ANU CSA in 1999. In her painting she works closely with the Indigenous WA artist Pantjiti Mary Mclean – and is Pantjiti’s agent. The two did a collaborative work in the 2000 Australian Heritage Commission exhibition at Canberra, the first to contain a section for indigenous/non-indigenous collaboration.

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Date written:
1999
Last updated:
2011