Selling Yarns

Australian Indigenous textiles and good business in the 21st century

 

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Lyndy Delian: Biography

Arts, writer and musician,

Lyndy Delian is an Aboriginal woman, originally from Victoria, who now resides in the ACT. She is an accomplished visual artist, writer and musician and has seven children.

Delian's art works and textiles are held in the collections of the National Museum of Australia, the National Gallery of Australia, the Canberra Institute of Technology, and in numerous private collections.

Also an experienced curator, Lyndy has been profiled in the book Black Lives, Rainbow Visions: Indigenous Sitings in the Creative Arts (1999), and has exhibited widely. She teaches part-time in the Indigenous Art and Fashion Course at the Canberra Institute of Technology, and for various community groups. Lyndy is a founding member of the ACT Indigenous Textile Artists Group and its current coordinator.

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