Maureen Ali

Biography

Maureen Ali learned to weave under the guidance of her sister Bonny Burarn.garra, a highly skilled fibre artist who has exhibited in commercial galleries around Australia since the 1990s. She also learned from her watching her mother, leading fibre artist Lorna Jin-gubarrangunyja, who won the Wandjuk Marika Award at the 20th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award (NATSIAA) in 2013 with a colourful pandanus fish trap.

Maureen has been practicing since 2006. She is Burarra, one of the east-side language groups who specialise in the customary conical dilly bags, woven string bags and mats. She is particularly renowned for the use of mirlarl, (malaisia scandens), a type of vine that grows in the coastal jungle. The use of this vine to manufacture fish traps, barriers and large strong dillybags is unique to this region. 

Languages

Burarra (Martay)

Community

Maningrida

Date of birth

1978-01-16

Clan

Gamarl

Artworks


Past Exhibitions

Group

  • 2022
    An-jawa (Creek), Sabbia Gallery, Redfern NSW
  • 2022
    Fibre Fun!, Everywhen Artspace
  • 2021
    Lineage, Delmar Gallery, Ashfield NSW
  • 2017
    Into the Water curated by Maningrida Arts & Culture, Tactile Arts, Darwin, NT