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Acclaimed Cairns artist, designer, curator, mentor and business owner, (and former Oasis Magazine cover model) Grace Lillian Lee will add another string to her already highly decorated bow, when her designs are showcased at the Bendigo Art Gallery later this year, in the country’s first major exhibition exclusively featuring contemporary indigenous design.
Piinpi: Contemporary Indigenous Fashion brings together the work of both established and emerging First Nations designers and artists.
Piinpi, an Indigenous word commonly used across regions of East Coast Cape York Peninsula, refers to Indigenous ‘seasonal changes’ and the regeneration of Country.
It was chosen as the name of the exhibition because of the significant influence Country and the land have on the work of many First Nations artists.
For centuries, Indigenous knowledge and connection to the land has played a pivotal role in art and culture for Australia’s First Peoples.
This exhibition seeks to share the stories indigenous designers and artists are telling through wearable art. Grace’s experience in this field will also be on display as a guest panelist discussing the bonds between art, culture and the seasons for creatives across the country.
She will be joined by the exhibition’s curator, Shonae Hobson, and the Victoria National Gallery’s Indigenous Art curator, Myles Russell-Cook.
The exhibition will show in Bendigo from 5 September to 29 November.
