PATCHWORK, APPLIQUE, PICTURE

2017
Overview

This patchwork and applique quilt, ‘Balbuk’s Country: Djildjit (Fish)’ by Stella King, is one of 15 designed and stitched by WA Inspired Art Quilters for an exhibition, acknowledging and celebrating the life of Fanny Balbuk Yooreel, a Noongar aboriginal activist in the 19th century and her aboriginal culture.
A collage on background of pieced hand dyed and commercial fabrics. Fish machine appliqued on surface.
Fish were a major source of food for aboriginal people living near the coast, particularly during the summer months. Having no form of water transport, they confined their fishing to sheltered areas such as lakes, rivers and estuaries. They pursued the fish - sea mullet, salmon and tailor - into shoal waters, and either speared them, or collected them as they basking on the surface.

Details

Details

Registration number
cwa-org-78-2017.44
Item type
Width
300 mm
Height or length
300 mm
Year
Embroiderers' Guild of WA

Embroiderers' Guild of WA

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Patchwork and applique picture
Patchwork and applique picture

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