Selling Yarns

Australian Indigenous textiles and good business in the 21st century

 

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Jennifer Martiniello: Biography

Writer, artist and academic,

Jennifer Martiniello is an award winning writer, visual artist and academic of Arrernte, Chinese and Anglo-Celtic descent. She has published six books and won a variety of awards, including the Canberra Critics Circle Award 2000 for Literature. She has a BA in Visual Art, and her works are held in numerous private collections.

Martiniello has exhibited her textiles widely in the ACT, Regional and Metropolitan NSW, and her lino and wood block prints are to be editioned by Northern Editions, NT this year. She has taught Contemporary Indigenous Social Issues (University of Canberra), Cultural Studies, Indigenous Art History and Creative Writing (Canberra Institute of Technology) and conducted numerous regional community workshops.

Martiniello is currently a member of the ACT Indigenous Textile Artists Group, and is the ACT representative on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Arts Board of the Australia Council for the Arts.

See also: Abstract of Jennifer Martiniello's paper:
Marketing and exhibiting concepts:
contemporary urban Indigenous texctiles in the ACT