A North-West Coast shell-stringer is the only finalist from Tasmania in the running for the King & Wood Mallesons Contemporary First Nations Art Award 2020. On a Friday night you may see me at the ...

Jeanette James combed remote Tassie beaches as a child, collecting tiny iridescent maireener shells with her family. Decades later she celebrates the importance of this ancient cultural practice. “My ...

James was about 40 at that time, and says it is common for Tasmanian Aboriginal women to spend their younger years collecting shells but not learn the traditional art of stringing necklaces until ...