Join JCG Curator Lia McKnight, with artists Nalda Searles and Janis Nedela, for an in-depth discussion about their artwork in Dirt Feeling, and their recent creative practices.

About the Artists

Nalda Searles is a fibre textile artist with a practice rooted in the transformative quality of the material she uses to produce basketry, body adornment and sculptural works.

Starting her practice in 1979, Nalda gradually developed her art in a self taught manner. Several years later, Nalda met Eileen Keys who, for the next ten years, steadily encouraged and guided her in her artistic practice. Many other artists inspired Nalda and still do. As the expression goes, pick up a blade grass and the whole world comes with it and so it did. Nalda still seeks diverse materials to use in different ways.

Banner images:

Nalda Searles portrait. Photo by John Parkes.

Janis Nedela, Earthenware bowl, 1989 earthenware, 26.5 x 85 x 86cm. Curtin University Art Collection. Purchased 1989. Photo of artwork in situ in Dirt Feeling exhibition by Gaylene Galardi.

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