Colin Martin, Baskets & Belonging - Entwined lives

The exciting eye-opener in the British Museum's Australian season is a novel exhibition of historic and contemporary indigenous Australian baskets. The purity of form and function of indigenous Aboriginal baskets resonate with a spirituality that is beyond mere monetary worth.�The London exhibition demonstrates the great variety of techniques used in Aboriginal basketry. Basket making and baskets survived.�Recent work is included in an exhibition,� tayenebe - Tasmanian Aboriginal women's fibre work. Contemporary makers also experiment in using novel materials, which include 'ghost nets'.