Riverland: Yvonne Koolmatrie Subject / International Art Featuring ninety-six authors—including art critics

Featuring ninety-six authors—including art critics and historians

This book is about disruption

And what if the answer is right in front of you

the 184 full-page portraits of real and imagined drovers and rural stockmen display a childlike awe of the quintessential Australian characters of an earlier time

Riverland: Yvonne Koolmatrie Subject / International Art Featuring ninety-six authors—including art criticsRiverland: Yvonne Koolmatrie charts the decades long practice of the renowned Ngarrindjeri weaver. Embedded in the traditions of Ngarrindjeri culture and animated by her boundless imagination, Koolmatrie's elegant woven forms are created using the labour intensive process of hand harvested native river sedge from the banks of the Murray River. It charts her development as an artist, pays homage to other Aboriginal artists as her key influences,