Kupungarri On Country Printmaking Project

Title: Kupungarri On Country Printmaking Project

Summary: The Kupungarri On Country Printmaking Project focuses on how remote women develop their art careers and develop new skills to further their careers. The project attends to the transmission of intergenerational Indigenous knowledges through artmaking and learning through developing printmaking skills in the remote community of Kupungarri, Western Australia.

The project aims to address needs in the field by supporting remote women’s opportunities to advance cultural knowledge in the areas of artmaking, particularly in the requested area of printmaking. There are few, if any, opportunities for learning new art skills like printmaking without leaving the local area and going to the Art Centre at Mowanjum or further afield.

For young women, practicing and producing art may be an income-generating opportunity, as well as a way to research, build, and maintain Indigenous knowledges.

The ecosystem approach to the health and sustainability of Indigenous material arts practices in Australia is of urgent need. Indigenous arts practices across Australia are classed and recognised on international scales as critically endangered (ICTM-anz, UNESCO).