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Sculpture Tjilkamarta Echidna
Materials: Tjanpi (grass) acrylic wool, raffia
Artist: Lynette Lewis
Tjanpi Desert Weavers, a signatory to the Indigenous Art Code, is a dynamic social enterprise of the NPY Women's Council. Tjanpi (meaning native desert grasses) supports Aboriginal women living in remote central and western desert communities to create contemporary fibre art.
When collecting desert grasses (minarri, warngumu and yirlintji) women visit sacred sites and traditional homelands, hunt and gather food for their families and teach children about Country. Grass is bound with wool, string or raffia and at times combined with ininti (red seeds of the bant-wing coral tree) and wipiya (emu feathers).