about Stuart & Kate
Stuart and Kate Lloyd are Cultural Artists who have worked in remote Australia for 30 years. They live in the wet tropics of Far North Queensland
Master Weavers
As master weavers they
innovated a contemporary weaving industry "Okka Wikka " in the wet tropics in 1980 and
have worked since as community artists in events and schools internationally
Developing a natural fibre curriculum they work with a Queensland Education accredited program in
FNQ & remote Australian schools
Since 1982 they have acted as national ambassadors for the crafts and performed as master weavers and educators throughout Europe and the Pacific Basin
Education with primary/archetypal fibre craft skills
Their life experience has demonstrated the powerful results the folk craft kinaesthetic skills have in connecting left and right brain motor skills and hence precursor skills recommended for the 3 R's development.
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Equally valuable is the finer perception of connecting the student to the continuum of culture and land through the fibre craft
They have facilitated an "Urub Trust" as a unincorporated networking body for indigenous fibre artists in Far North Queensland & Cape York. Under encouragement from many Elders they have networked, archived pattern language, developed curriculum and are educating apprentices to contemporize these cultural heritages
Painters
Painting since 1982 has actively complimented an
archetypal narrative
which explores the power of metaphor and symbolism in the visual arts
This narrative explores the Arts as nourishing for our contemporary
community: activating a quest to articulate anew the
"Story for our Time"
This
"Story for our Time"
carries a contempory essence
reflecting a mirror to
Karrinyarra and our Indigenous Australian's
"World's Oldest Living Visual Narrative"
Karrinyarra Artists
The Llwyd's have been encouraging their Karrinyarra family to find self empowerment and independence through their extraordinary painting gifts and life on their traditional land
The Llwyd's recognize that Karrinyarra is a Homeland initiative that holds a traditional family continuum. Karrinyarra has no direct affiliation with any Indigenous Community Art Centre or Art Hub
"Karrinyarra Artists" is a Karrinyarra family business designed to self help Homeland - Outstation economic independence
The Llwyd's support the young people
who would like to keep returning to Karrinyarra to live & be on country
The Llwyd's present their own art production along side their traditional western desert family
