Containers of Power : Women With Clever Hands Subject / Female Artists some paint and paper

some paint and paper

where Jeffrey Smart was born in 1921

The prominent Australian artist Nora Heysen has been said to have worked in the shadow of her father Hans Heysen

and more recently for sculpture

Containers of Power : Women With Clever Hands Subject / Female Artists some paint and paperContainers of Power is the most comprehensive and consummate insight yet published into the Indigenous fibre art of northeast Arnhem Land. Based on Louise Hamby's long term engagement with the women of Gapuwiyak (Lake Evella) in Arnhem Land, this book retrieves recognition for the relatively unknown creative practice of this community. Over 700 images illustrate the work of the Gapuwiyak women past and present to highlight their individual styles and