Lola greeno biography of albert
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Artist:
Lola Greeno
A lot of my work is about cultural awareness, letting people know what we did, what we are doing, and it’s about passing on to future families, for them to know about where we come from. I think you’ve always got to be grounded in your own culture. You know, what means so much to you and your family. I think that’s really important to be preserved for younger generations.
Photo: Mel de Ruyter
Lola Greeno (Pakana people)
Black crow and cockle shell necklace 2016
Purchased 2017 in recognition of the 50th Anniversary of the 1967 Referendum.
Lola Greeno (Pakana people)
Green Maireener shell necklace 2016
Purchased 2017 in recognition of the 50th Anniversary of the 1967 Referendum.
Search for works by this artist in the national collection.
Lola Greeno (Pakana people)
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LOLA GREENO – LIVING TREASURE
The irridescent Maireener shells that make the grandest of Greeno's necklaces - photo - John Leeming
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 11.09.14
Dates: 30.08.14 : 11.10.14
Location: Object Gallery, Surry Hills, Sydney
The first Indigenous artist/craftsman has been recognised as a Living Treasure – Master of Australian Craft. Tasmania's Lola Greeno joins a distinguished list of Treasures which includes potters Les Blakebrough and Jeff Minchin, glass artist Klaus Moje, and jeweller Marian Hosking. Part of the honour includes a four-year national tour exhibiting her work and a tribute catalogue.
The 68-year old, born Lola Sainty, has come a long way from Prickly Bottom, Cape Barren Island where her idyllic childhood was spent farming a sustainable block of land, going to church, mutton-birding and collecting shells. Her description of it at the opening of her exhibition in Sydney's Object Gallery (having debuted in her home town of Launceston) was refreshingly different from fellow Tassie artists artists like Ricky Maynard, who paint a gloomy picture more in accord with the politics of the 19th Century's Black Wars, which saw all surviving Aborigines exiled to the Bass Strait Islands with a qui
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Aki Inomata
Inter-species collaboration – artistic collaborations with landdwelling creatures.
Milingimbi Weavers
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