Selling Yarns

Australian Indigenous textiles and good business in the 21st century

 

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Lola Greeno: Biography

Program Officer, Aboriginal Arts, Arts Tasmania

Lola Greeno was born in 1946 on Cape Barren Island and later moved to Flinders Island. In 1972 she moved to Launceston to allow her children a wider education as well as extending her own education as a mature age student. In 1997, Greeno completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts at the University of Tasmania in Launceston. Since graduating, Greeno has developed her knowledge and skills though a traineeship at the University of Tasmania Gallery Launceston and as a participant in an internship program at the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra.

Greeno is a well respected Tasmanian Aboriginal shell worker, sculptor, installation artist and fibre artist who also works as a curator and is the Program Officer, Aboriginal Arts at Arts Tasmania. Greeno's work has been exhibited widely throughout Australia and is represented in state, national and private collections including, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, The National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, the Campbelltown Gallery, NSW, the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, National Maritime Museum, Sydney, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane and the National Museum of Australia, Canberra.

Greeno co-curated the Tasmanian work in Woven Forms: Contemporary basket making from Australia, exhibition currently touring Australia. Her recent art work includes completing a commissioned long green maireener shell necklace for National Gallery of Victoria. She is currently working with a group of Tasmanian Aboriginal women in researching the plants and techniques used in the historical Tasmanian Aboriginal baskets to create a selection of new work.

See also: Abstract of Lola Greeno's paper:
Raising the Profile of Indigenous artists