Indigenous Owned

Tjanpi Desert Weavers

Weaving; Jewellery & object design; Textiles including fabric and fashion; Merchandise and licensed products

Indigenous Owned

Tjanpi Desert Weavers

Tjanpi Desert Weavers is a social enterprise of the Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara Yakunytjatjara (NPY) Women’s Council, that enables women living in the remote Central and Western deserts to earn an income from fibre art. Tjanpi (meaning grass in Pitjantjatjara language) represents over 400 Aboriginal women artists from 26 remote communities who make spectacular contemporary fibre art in the form of baskets and sculptures.

The NPY Lands cover approximately 350,000 square kilometres across the tri-state border region of NT, SA and WA. The Creative Development team regularly visit communities by road to purchase artworks upfront from artists, supply art materials, run workshops, and facilitate grass collecting trips. These trips provide an opportunity for women to visit culturally significant sites, hunt, perform inma and share important teachings and stories with their young people.

Tjanpi embodies the energies and rhythms of Country, culture and community. The shared stories, skills and experiences of this wide-reaching network of mothers, daughters, aunties, sisters and grandmothers form the bloodline of the desert weaving phenomenon and have fueled Tjanpi’s rich history of collaborative practice.

Contact details

website:http://www.tjanpi.com.au
address: 3 Wilkinson Street, Alice Springs, NT 0870
email:tjanpi@npywc.org.au
phone:08 8958 2377
ABN:77 902 127 562
open:
Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu and Fri 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM

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Indigenous Art Code acknowledges the Traditional Owners and custodians of Country throughout Australia and recognises their continuing connection to the land, waters and skies, often expressed through art. We pay our respects to artists, Elders and community members past, present and future.