Woven basket (image courtesy Bare Hands / First Hand Solutions)
From the desert to the sea – Aboriginal owned art gallery
First Hand Solutions, who run the iconic Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art and craft markets the ‘Blak Markets’, will be opening a pop-up retail art gallery in Surry Hills on Thursday 9 April 2015.
According to Blak Markets manager and curator Peta-Joy Williams, it is a chance to showcase the best of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art and craft not featured in the Blak Markets:
The gallery will illustrate the diversity of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture through artwork and crafts from the desert to the sea – from both remote and urban communities and everything in between.
A highlight will be art and craft workshops that will be held in the gallery space with boomerang painting and shellwork workshops for children during the school holidays ($40 a child). They get to take home their artwork and workshops will continue after the holidays including a coil weaving workshop with Aboriginal weaver Karleen Green at 12pm-4pm, Saturday 18 April ($60).
The Blak markets pop-up shop is a social enterprise with proceeds going to running First Hand Solutions community programs – which focus on cultural reconnection for Indigenous youth. First Hand Solutions Aboriginal Corporation is a charity with DRG status whose aim is to find hands on solutions to issues faced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
When: 11am-6pm Thursday to Saturday and 12pm-4pm Sundays, from 9 April 2015. Launch event will be on 23 April 2015 at 6pm, hosted by Brand X.
Bookings and enquiries: Peta-Joy Williams 0424 191 237 or email stalls.firsthand@gmail.com
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