Basket Weaving with Bev Coe
LOCAL ARTIST
Beverly June Coe
Wall hanging made with a lazy squw stitch and the material used is called " Raffia"
LOCAL ARTIST
Biography
Beverly June Coe
2008
Bev was born in Condobolin on 3rd June 1959, the youngest daughter of Charlie and Isabel Coe (nee Bowden) of Condobolin.
"I am fortunate I have inherited my mothers' artistic talents and my fathers' talent for craft"
Bev has a variety of styles in Contemporary and Traditional Aboriginal Art.
Bev has been practicing art for 26 years and has completed the Associate Diploma in Creative Arts at Mitchell College Advance Education of Bathurst in 1984 (Charles Sturt University, Bathurst campus).
She has completed Certificate 1 in Aboriginal Art and Cultural Practices at the Western Institute of TAFE, graduating 4th July 1997, and began teaching part time at Condobolin TAFE from 1997-2002 in Aboriginal Art and Culture. She has also conducted workshops for the Condobolin Art and community Centre.
Bev is a practicing artist, who has expanded her fibre art techniques into Traditional Aboriginal Basket weaving.
Her creative skills and knowledge of weaving has led her to be one the most productive weavers of our region.
Bev's aim for her practice in fibre-art is to re-introduce women in the Central west to the Traditional skill of Basket Weaving. She would like to establish local and regional women's networks to support fibre- art, and to establish a project to protect and/or re-introduce fibre producing plants in local areas.
Bev and other weavers from "West Women Weaving" have been tutoring workshops for the past 18 months with the aim of creating self surviving groups in our region.
Bev has joined interstate weavers for gatherings/workshops at the Coorong S.A, Trangie NSW and Gerringong NSW.
At these workshops, techniques, styles and skills are shared.
These workshops have introduced Bev to other traditional native grasses that Indigenous communities have used in their area.
Bev explains her practices in Fibre-Art as "a strong connection to the history of her Wiradjuri background and a strong relationship to the land"
Bev has been exhibiting paintings, drawings, silk paintings, woven baskets and pottery since 1987.
- Condobolin Art Exhibitions, winning local Exhibitor 1998
- PAH & I Condobolin Show, Champion Exhibitor 1998
- A member of Boomalli Aborginal Artist Co-Operative 1998 - Art Works on display
- Exhibited at Boomalli and Sydney 2000 Olympics
- Designed and painted 2 murals at Condobolin Primary School 1987/1988
- Designed the logo for Lachlan Mobile Child Care Service
- Designed logo printed on T-Shirt for Aboriginal Health Workers
- Invited to exhibit at the Japanese Gardens, Cowra 1992
- Aboriginal Cultural Art Exhibition Condobolin
- Community Centre for tourism development (Solo) 2001
- Participated in the Wiradjuri Condobolin Pty Ltd Art competition (Logo) 2004 NAIDOC Week
- Have been a guest teacher at Condobolin High School and St Joseph's Catholic School
- Designed and painted the two large Mt Tilga signs on Melrose Road Condobolin 2003
- Designed and painted 4 logos for Central West Recruitment and Condobolin Aboriginal Health Service
- Designed and painted banners, posters and flyer books for Born to Read program 2004
- Exhibited at Age of Fishes Museum Canowindra, October 2004
- Movin' around Exhibition Orange 2005
- Mining Sacred Ground Exhibition Boomalli 2006
- Kinross Wolaroi Art Exhibition Orange November 2006
- Little Black Book of Strong Women, paintings and weaving
- Guest appearance in Australian Artist Magazine September 2007
Recent Fibre-Art Exhibitions and Workshops
- Murrin Bridge and Lake Cargelligo workshops November 2006- May 2007
- Cowra Art Gallery Exhibition and Workshop 21st April- 27th May 2007
- Parkes Workshops November 2006- July 2007
- Exhibition and Workshop NAIDOC Week July 2007
- Wellington LCMA Workshop August 2007
- Orange Elders Week Local Aboriginal Lands Council Workshop October 2007
- Corinella Primary School Workshop November 2007
- Trangie Central West Catchment Authority Workshop, with Mirring Aboriginal Women's Group ( N.T), and Coorong (S.A) Ngarrindjeri April 2008
- Gerringong "Boolarng Nangamai" Aboriginal Art and Culture Workshop May 2008
