Welcome
We are North Queensland Cultural Artists
We are innovators in contemporary wicker
As Cultural Artists, we seek to reinterpret the metaphors for
the myth and meaning of our times
Okka Wikka was established in 1980 as a contemporary lawyer cane
cottage craft design business.
In 1996, world heritage closed the 20 small cottage industry
innovated by our design
Influences: Renewable fibres, education and event curriculum,
remote youth at risk programs, contact with contemporary master
crafts people and indigenous elders and the needs of our own children
Okka Wikka innovated teaching natural fibre craft, as a medium to
hold international Folk Craft and FOLK LORE.
Okka Wikka now focuses on curriculum design and teaching using
natural fibres
We target networking Education, Health, Holiday Programs, Archival
Research, FNQ indigenous cultural custodians to develop an online
archive and train Indigenous Australians to take on teaching opportunities
Okka Wikka is a vehicle to carry ancestral memory, commercial and
cultural wealth, using renewable natural fibres
Primary fibres used are coconut leaf and banana trunk, bamboo,
hibiscus, lawyer cane, lomandra, NZ flax, papyrus, pandanus,
bullrush, etc etc
