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NALDA MAY SEARLES

E: naldasearles1@bigpond.com

EDUCATION

1989 - 91 Fine Arts degree painting major (distinction). Curtin University of Technology, WA

1978 till present Self taught fibre textile basketry and stitch skills

1969 - 72 Psych nurse training Mental Health Services, WA

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2012 Roads Cross Flinders University SA. and national tour.

2011 Nalda Searles Drifting in my own Land continues national tour until 2013

2010 13th Trienale of Tapestry Lodz Poland

The Stringmakers. Tjulyuru Art Centre Warburton Ranges and Holmes A Court Gallery WA?

2009 -13 Nalda Searles Drifting in My Own Land. National tour to 18 venues

2007 - 10 Recoil National touring exhibition. MAGNT

2006 - 08 Woven Forms National touring exhibition

2007 Canopy of Air Elllenbrook Gallery, WA

Mine own Executioner Mundaring Arts Centre, WA touring exhibition

2004 - 06 Seven Sisters: Fibres Arising from the West FORM, WA touring exhibition

2001 SOFA Chicago USA. Australian Craft Council

On Line artist in residence John Curtin Gallery with Pantjiti Mary Mclean

Folded Australian Embassy, Bangkok, Thailand

Home is Where the Heart is Art Museum University of South Australia, SA

1983 Basketry of Nalda Searles Cheese Factory, Balingup, WA

ENVIRONMENT COMMUNITY AND PUBLIC ART PROJECTS

2000 East Kalgoorlie Primary School Mine painting project with Pantjiti Mary Mclean

East Kalgoorlie Primary School Mural with ngaatjatjarra language

with Pantjiti Mary Mclean

1998 Mullewa Community Park Design, WA

1997 Piney Lakes Sculpture Project Melville, WA

1997 O’Connor Primary School Design and Structure Project with Mary Mclean

( State Gov Award for excellence)

WORKSHOPS, RESIDENCIES, TEACHING, LECTURES

2010 Northern Queensland Indigenous communities Ghost Net Project

2009 Sustaining Yarns Speaker and workshop Museum of Australia ACT

2008 Creative Development Workshop, Hobart, TAS

Canning Stock Route project. Kunnawaritie Martu Milli Arts & Form

2007 South Project Soweto. Johannesburg, South Africa

Basket Makers of Victoria Design Development Workshop

Curtin University Visual Art Students Workshop. Fibre Textiles

Blackstone Festival. Tutor. Blackstone Community

Clever Hands FORM Port Hedland in association with Woven Forms exhibition. Tutor

Jigalong Community. Martumilli Arts. Punmu Community. Tutor

2006 Tafta at Geelong Tutor. Fibre Textile Workshop by 1 week. Tutor

Selling Yarns (Indigenous Fibre textiles) Charles Sturt University Darwin. Speaker

Woven Forms Workshop Leader. 100 women at FORM

Woven Forms Forum. Speaker

2005 Residency Blackstone Community. Fibre textiles. Tutor

Tatfta @ Brisbane, Tutor

Residency Parrngurr Community. Tutor

2004 South Project. Craft Victoria Speaker and Workshop

Residency Parnngurr Community. Tutor

Arts Event Blackstone Community. Tutor

Tjanpi Festival Warburton Ranges. Speaker and Tutor

Dwellings Onslow Primary School (with Wallace Greenham)

2003 Residency Punmu Community Western Desert. Tutor

Residency Carnarvon Community. Tutor

Publications

The Art of Mankind. Thames and Hudson Mary s. 2012

2009 Nalda Searles Drifitng in My Own Land, Publication. Catalogue for the exhibition Editor Andrew Nicholls

A Stitching Of Words DVD 28 minutes. For the exhibition Producer Dr G Skevos Karpathakis ECU.

2009 Surface Design USA .Writer Wendy Lugg.

2008 Recoil ArtBack NT. Edited Margie West

2007 Canopy of Air Catalogue essay Philippa O'Brien

ART TEXTILES of the WORLD Australia Vol 2. Telos. UK

Cultural Strands FORM Publication

2006 17thTamworth Fibre Textile Biennial Catalogue

2005 Woven Forms Object Gallery, NSW. Catalogue

2004 Seven Sisters - Fibres Arising from the West Catalogue for the exhibition editor Andrew Nicholls.

2003 Tracking Cloth Wollongong City Gallery Catalogue

2002 17thTamworth Fibre Textile Biennial Catalogue

2000 Essential Truths Readily to Hand Catalogue

1998 17thTamworth Fibre Textile Biennial Catalogue

1997 Masters of Their Craft Noris Ionou

Recovering Catalogue for the exhibition.

Awards and Grants.

2009 Lifetime contribution to the arts. Perth WA. Inaugural Artsource Award

2006 New Work Grant. ArtsWA for preparation for Fellowship application

1998 Award for Excellence in Public Art, Government of Western Australia

1995 Mid career fellowship form WEST Australian Dept for the Arts.