The Fire and Ice sculpture displays a woven sun, melting a sheet of ice woven as a net to form droplets of water woven from ancient coil weaving.
The women from the Victorian Aboriginal Weaving Collective continued traditions for NAIDOC Week 2016 by creating a Fire and Ice sculpture using traditional weaving techniques for the Light In Winter Festival held at Federation Square during the Winter Solistice.
In this interview Glenda and Maralyn Nicholls, Donna Blackall and Hanna Preisley all share their input of the weaving techniques of the sculpture for this interview.
The women told Khi-Lee Thorpe it took three days to create the work at the site of the Leempeeyt Weeyn' campfire in Federation Square. The rain and wind led the women to weaving inside the Atrium for part of the week, but the sun came out for the community on the final day for the march through the city, where celebrations were held afterwards at Federarion Square, home to SBS Radio Melbourne.
The Koorie Heritage Trust invited the women from the Victorian Aboriginal Weaving Collective to demonstrate their cultural practice of weaving for the NAIDOC Week Celebrations.
