Exhibition Dates:

National Museum of Australia, Canberra: 27 November 2008 - 25 May 2009

Caloundra Regional Gallery, Caloundra: 8 July 2009 - 16 August 2009

Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory Darwin: September - December 2009

An Artbank Northern Territory touring exhibition, ReCoil: Change and Exchange in Coiled Fibre Art reflects the changing practices of coiled basketry techniques within contemporary Indigenous fibre art culture. While once unique to the people of south-east Australia, early missionaries and recent workshops have helped transport and transform the practice to the desert regions of the Northern Territory, South Australia and Western Australia continuing to spread today along lines of kinship and via skills exchange.

Exhibiting the work of 12 Indigenous and three non-Indigenous Australian textile artists, ReCoil includes bags, baskets, mats, two- and three-dimensional innovative sculptures and paintings to highlight the rich and discursive effects that inter-cultural exchange has had on the coiling movement. Curated by Margie West, together with Indigenous curator Karen Mills, ReCoil includes the work of well-known South Australian weavers Yvonne Koolmatrie, from Berri, and Niningka Lewis, from Ernabella, and is touring nationally until late 2009.

Established by the Australian government in 1980, Artbank Northern Territory is a part of Artbank, the nation's largest buyer of contemporary Australian art.

Kantjupayi Benson, Truck and Driver, 2007, grass, raffia, string, wool, wire, mesh, wheels, 112 x 190 x 75cm. Courtesy Tjanpi Desert Weavers, Alice Springs. Photograph by Peter Eve, Monsoon Studio, Darwin.

Yvonne Koolmatrie, Biplane, 2001, sedge, 45.6 x 123 x 110cm. Courtesy Tropman Collection, Sydney. Photograph by Peter Eve, Monsoon Studio, Darwin.