Piccabeen vessels painted with Ochre
Artist: Melissa Ladkin
Mob: Awabakal, Wonnarua, Bundjalung
Medium: Ochre on palm
Year: 2024
Size: 5 litres
Made from a single sheath, soaked and stitched with natural fiber and painted with earth pigments. Archontophoenix cunninghamiana grows in rainforest and wet scleophyll forest, in swampy areas and beside rivers and creeks, at altitudes ranging from sea level to 1,200 m Bangalow Palm is endemic to coastal Eastern Australia and ranges from the bottom of NSW up to Townsville in QLD.
*proceeds of the sale of these baskets will go to Women Up North https://wunh.org.au/
Artist: Melissa Ladkin
Mob: Awabakal, Wonnarua, Bundjalung
Medium: Ochre on palm
Year: 2024
Size: 5 litres
Made from a single sheath, soaked and stitched with natural fiber and painted with earth pigments. Archontophoenix cunninghamiana grows in rainforest and wet scleophyll forest, in swampy areas and beside rivers and creeks, at altitudes ranging from sea level to 1,200 m Bangalow Palm is endemic to coastal Eastern Australia and ranges from the bottom of NSW up to Townsville in QLD.
*proceeds of the sale of these baskets will go to Women Up North https://wunh.org.au/
Artist: Melissa Ladkin
Mob: Awabakal, Wonnarua, Bundjalung
Medium: Ochre on palm
Year: 2024
Size: 5 litres
Made from a single sheath, soaked and stitched with natural fiber and painted with earth pigments. Archontophoenix cunninghamiana grows in rainforest and wet scleophyll forest, in swampy areas and beside rivers and creeks, at altitudes ranging from sea level to 1,200 m Bangalow Palm is endemic to coastal Eastern Australia and ranges from the bottom of NSW up to Townsville in QLD.
*proceeds of the sale of these baskets will go to Women Up North https://wunh.org.au/
