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Ingkerrenh/Antey (Stories)

26 July - 8 September 2024

Ingkerrenh/Antey (Stories)

Shirley Dawson
Umbrella

Shirley Dawson, Alangkwe (Bush Banana) jug, 2024, Glazed ceramics, 21 x 18 x 14cm. Photograph: Amanda Galea.

Ingkerrenh/Antey (Stories) is Shirley Dawson's second solo exhibition with Umbrella, and her first working primarily in ceramics. The artist's recent work has been with slip-cast vessels and hand-built ceramics. This exhibition explores stories of bush plants (as medicine and food), and animals including enarpa (echidna). 

Exhibitions launch
6pm Friday 26 July 2024. 
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Shirley Dawson is from the Eastern Aranda people of Huckitta, Northern Territory. She has been making art and exhibiting since the 1980s, and is now based on Kalkadoon Country / Mt Isa. Shirley’s artistic interest commenced in 1973 during primary school with sketching and then acrylic painting on canvas. She expanded her practice, incorporating her artworks onto ceramic pieces and using bush plants to dye material before applying her artwork designs onto women's clothing. Shirley completed a course on all aspects of airbrushing in 1985 through the Flying Arts School. She started a small arts and ceramic business in 1988 with a loan through the Aboriginal Development Commission. After this, she gained a certificate qualification in teaching in ceramics. Shirley won a number of prizes for her paintings and ceramic pieces at the Mt Isa Annual Art show during the 1980's & 1990's. Shirley exhibited with Umbrella at the Cairns Indigenous Art Fair over several years, and her first solo exhibition, The Long Walk, was exhibited at Umbrella in 2021.

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Umbrella Studio Contemporary Arts respectfully acknowledges the Wulgurukaba of Gurambilbarra and Yunbenun and the surrounding groups of our region - Bindal, Gugu Badhan, Nywaigi, Warrgamay, Bandjin and Gudjal - as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we gather, share and celebrate local creative practice. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging. We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders as the first people of Australia. They have never ceded sovereignty and remain strong in their enduring connection to land and Culture.

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Acknowledgements

Umbrella is supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland, part of the Department of Communities, Housing and Digital Economy, and by the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an initiative of the Australian, state and territory governments. | Umbrella is supported by the Tim Fairfax Family Foundation and receives funding from Creative Australia through the Australian Cultural Fund. | Townsville City Council is a funding partner of Umbrella's program.