Art Holds a High Place in my Life: DAMP Monograph 1995- Indigenous Fibre Art transforming ordinary dishes into extraordinary

transforming ordinary dishes into extraordinary feasts

Billycans are commonly used to make hot cups of tea on the fire at Town Camps in Mparntwe/Alice Springs as well as on bush trips to Country

told us alyurr are the Lightning people's children

Tatyana Mcfadden

But without it

Art Holds a High Place in my Life: DAMP Monograph 1995- Indigenous Fibre Art transforming ordinary dishes into extraordinaryTitled after an early work by Melbourne based artist group DAMP (Art holds a high place in my life, 1997), this substantial monograph by curator and scholar Rosemary Forde chronicles nearly 30 years of DAMPs practice. Art Holds a High Place in my Life: DAMP Monograph 1995 includes reproduced archival essays, ephemera, reviews, alongside new critical writing and extensive visual documentation, as well as notes and drawings from DAMPs archive. DAMP is