Portfolio: The Eel Trap (Hinaki)

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Client:
Regional Arts Victoria

Project Type:
Workshop & Community Arts

Role:
Artistic Director

Project Brief:

The Eel Trap / Hinaki was a large-scale contemporary interpretation of the Koorie and Maori eel traps – a temporary installation on the banks of the Wimmera River. The work a collaboration between two Maori and four Koorie artists, all respected for their approach to contemporary basket weaving. Women from local Indigenous communities will bring their regional weaving traditions to exchange.

Creative team: Tania Remana and Hoana Panoho (Aotearoa) and Kimba Thompson, with Vicki Couzins, Treahna Hamm, Elaine Terrick and Ricado Idagi.

Sista Girl Productions acknowledges the traditional custodians of the land on which we work, live and create – the Wurundjeri people and Elders past and present of the Kulin nations.

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