Collection: Woven to our Ancestors

Woven to Our Ancestors depicts family relationships and that there are long connections to our Ancestors. Woven to Our Ancestors particularly relates to the written words of Bethel Delaney (artist Grandmother) in 1974, ‘Dilly bag and mat making like our grannies did’.

The loop pattern shows the connections between each of the generations and the lines are the individual people. As the artist draws on her own family - the daughter of Evelyn Delaney, who is the daughter of Bethel Delaney (Martin), who is the daughter of Matilda Brown, who is the daughter of Granny Mibu, who is the daughter of Granny Ngiri.