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Delia Summers

1960

BiographyBorn on Flinders Island Delia Summers grew up on Cape Barren Island. A ceramic, fibre and textile artist Summers’ gained a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Tasmania in 2001. A member of the Aboriginal Elders Council of Tasmania Summers participated in the ‘meenah mienne (My Dream)’ mentorship project in 2005. The project established by Tasmanian Aboriginal elders, artists and Youth Justice professional aims to build supportive local networks by fostering mentoring relationships between at risk Indigenous youth and Indigenous mentors and cultural practitioners in Northern Tasmania.

Her works have been shown in several exhibitions including ‘Cultural Forms’, University Gallery, University of Tasmania, Launceston (1997); ‘Taking our Place’, University Gallery, Launceston & Burnie Regional Gallery, Burnie (2001); ‘Fibre Culture’, Ten Days on the Island Festival, Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston (2003) and ‘Woollily: Continuing a Living Culture’, Carnegie Gallery, Hobart (2003). Summers was the project curator for the National Gallery of Australia’s touring exhibition “Keeping Culture: Aboriginal Art to Keeping Places and Cultural Centres” exhibition (2000) and has also worked as a Aboriginal Health Liaison Officer at Launceston General Hospital.

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