Grace Rosendale, Seedpods dress 2019. Silk organza, elastic, sequinned fabric. Courtesy of the artist, Hopevale Arts and Cultural Centre and Queensland University of Technology Model: Magnolia Maymuru. Photographer: Bronwyn Kidd.
Created by the Bendigo Art Gallery, the exhibition Piinpi: Contemporary Australian Indigenous Fashion will shine a light on Australia’s leading First Nations creatives, and a design movement that is fast becoming a national fashion phenomenon.
Featuring the work of Indigenous artists and designers from the urban centres to remote communities, Piinpi will highlight the power and diversity of the rapidly growing Indigenous fashion and textile industry.
What is Piinpi?
Piinpi is an expression that Kanichi Thampanyu (First Nations people from the East Cape York Peninsula) use to describe changes in the landscape across time and space. For First Nations people across Australia, knowledge of the land and seasons is culturally important. While the number of seasons can vary across First Nations groups around Australia, the exhibition is themed around four widely recognised seasons: Season of Fire and Burn, Season of Rain, Season of Flowers, and Season of Cool Winds.
Piinpi is coming to Paris as part of Australia now France 2021-2022, for display at the Australian Embassy in France and at the Observatory in LE BHV MARAIS exhibition space as part of the Australian takeover of the store (29 January – 27 February 2022).
SOURCE: Australia now France 2021-22.