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Title

Low Tide Basket

2023

Artist

Paula Savage

Australia

1982 –

Language group: Kala Lagaw Ya, Torres Strait region

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  • Details

    Place where the work was made
    Moa Island (Banks Island) → Zenadth Kes (Torres Strait Islands) → Australia
    Date
    2023
    Media categories
    Sculpture , Weaving
    Materials used
    raffia
    Dimensions
    14.0 x 40.0 cm
    Signature & date

    Not signed. Not dated.

    Credit
    Purchased with funds provided by the Aboriginal Art Collection Benefactors 2023
    Location
    Not on display
    Accession number
    270.2023
    Copyright
    © Paula Savage
    Artist information
    Paula Savage

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  • About

    Paula Savage is a Torres Strait Islander artist from the Kubin community of Moa Island. With a practice that includes weaving, drawing, printmaking and carving, Savage has established herself as one of the most prolific and diverse artists working at the local arts centre, Moa Arts. Her works represent her cultural heritage, as well as inherited stories and knowledge.

    This basket depicts the low tides that occur between the reefs showing the channel for a dinghy to run through. It reveals the deep end of the channel showing the low tides on the shallow end of the reef bed.

Other works by Paula Savage