Selling Yarns

Australian Indigenous textiles and good business in the 21st century

 

Speakers

Louise Partos: Biography

Manager, Bula'bula Arts Aboriginal Corporation

Louise Partos has worked hard to promote the predominantly female artists who produce the stunning fibre art for which Bula'bula Arts is renowned. She is the curator of the Gunga Dhawu (Pandanus story) exhibition which will be presented at Territory Craft during the Selling Yarns conference and is the Director of the film of the same name, which will also be featured at the conference. Louise Partos has curated many exhibitions that showcase the region's top fibre artists and continues to make the promotion of fibre artists a priority for Bula'bula Arts, a locally owned and governed not-for-profit Aboriginal artists' cooperative which markets the work of local painters, fibre artists and sculptors.

Previously, she has worked as Project Coordinator, Indigenous Cultures Department, Museum Victoria; been a Producer for the Bunjilaka Aboriginal Centre, Melbourne Museum and, in the late 1990s, she was the Art Coordinator at Ernabella Arts, a community based artists' association in Central Australia.

See also: Abstract of Louise Partos's paper:
"Gunga Dhawu" (Pandanas Story)