Lola Greeno: Cultural Jewels is the eighth iteration of Australian Design Centre’s Living Treasures: Masters of Australian Craft series - a biennial recognition and national tour of an iconic artist whose body of work epitomises the best of various Australian craft fields.

Lola Greeno is Australian Design Centre’s first Indigenous Living Treasure and is a shell worker and artist from Tasmania, whose career spans 30 years. Greeno’s award-winning talent in shell- working is magnificently displayed in the exhibition. 50 highly visual and textural works uniquely champion the traditions and culture of the Indigenous women of Tasmania’s Cape Barren and Flinders Islands.

Lola Greeno: Cultural Jewels is supported by Australian Design Centre’s National Exhibitions Strategy funded by the Australia Council and is supported by Visions of Australia, an Australian Government program supporting touring exhibitions by providing funding assistance for the development and touring of Australian cultural  material  across Australia.

Australian Design Centre is supported by the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an initiative of the Australian, State and Territory Governments. Australian Design Centre is assisted by the New South Wales Government through Create NSW, and the Australian government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.

Lola Greeno
laewurrar necklace 2014 (detail)
scallop shells, leather cord
Photo: John Leeming, QVMAG