Naomi Tcherna, Bridget Bunduck and Elizabeth Gumbaduck silkscreen printing Cecelia Kurungaiyi’s design Waterholes at Palngun Wurnangat Aboriginal Corporation, Wadeye, 28th August 2017. Photograph by Joanne Pilcher.

Joanne Pilcher is currently undertaking a Design Star-funded PhD at University of Brighton on ‘Aboriginal Australian Textile Design in the Northern Territory’. Joanne recently went on a British Library PhD Research Placement. Her project explored contemporary publishing in Australia and links to her project blog posts are at the following links:

http://blogs.bl.uk/americas/2018/05/indigenous-australian-comic-characters-in-the-british-library.html

http://blogs.bl.uk/americas/2018/01/resources-for-engaging-māori-contemporary-culture-and-politics-1.html

http://blogs.bl.uk/americas/2017/09/resources-for-engaging-with-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander-contemporary-culture-and-politics.html

http://blogs.bl.uk/americas/2017/07/australasia-in-the-americas-blog.html