Colleen Mundy is a member of the Palawa people of Tasmania whose basket-weaving maintains a long-held matrilineal tradition of her people. Mundy has spent most of her life in the bush or on the beach and this personal history provides the foundations for her craft: she employs natural fibres and dyes derived from the bush, and in some cases shells are integrated into the weave to enhance the appearance of her baskets. Mundy’s work was exhibited in the Object Gallery’s “wovenforms” exhibition in 2005, and she has been involved in a number of workshops to educate the public about Tasmanian Aboriginal weaving practices, alongside shell-workers and other weavers.
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- Writers:
- Fisher, Laura
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- Date written:
- 2008
- Last updated:
- 2011
