ONE of Arts Ceduna’s staff members will soon have her work on show in an upcoming exhibition due to start in May.
Outreach arts worker Sherrie Jones and Adelaide-based artist Amanda Radomi met at a workshop in Fowlers Bay a few years ago where they learnt how to weave baskets.
They’re now working together to create a collection of pieces, from artwork to baskets and ceramics.
“Sherrie’s a very talented artist who has a go at everything, so she might also have some ceramics and lino prints,” Arts Ceduna manager Serena Gunter said.
Arts Ceduna is the premier Aboriginal art centre in South Australia, and has about 140 talented in-house artists from the state’s far west.
The centre, established in 2001, encourages artists to produce, develop, promote and sell Aboriginal visual arts, which include paintings, lino prints, artifacts and ceramics.
The diverse environment of land, sea and desert – the vast plains of the Nullabor west of Ceduna, the largest untouched virgin mallee and spinifex country north of the town, the pristine waters of the Great Australian Bight in the south and ancient rock formations such as the Gawler Ranges to the east – is reflected strongly in the work of the artists.
“Artists can come here and work in our art studio, and we run workshops for artists, but we also have a gallery where we can display all forms of Aboriginal art,” Miss Gunter said.