Joanne Egan

  • Artist (Ceramist),
  • Artist (Photographer)
Mutti Mutti/Wiradjuri artist based in Mildura who was highly commended for the Koorie Heritage Trust Acquisition Award of the 2007 Victorian Indigenous Art Awards.
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Joanne Egan, Mutti Mutti/Wiradjuri artist, was born in Leeton (NSW) and spent her childhood in Robinvale in northwest Victoria. Egan has a Certificate IV in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultural Arts from the Sunraysia Institute of TAFE in Mildura. In 2007 she was highly commended for the Koorie Heritage Trust Acquisition award of the Victorian Indigenous Art Awards, for her work Dip-Tin – a ceramic rendition of the rectangular perforated metal basket that is used by Egan’s family and community for farm and river related activities. As she writes of the work in the Awards catalogue:

'Growing up in the Sunraysia district, dip-tins were used for many purposes. During the grape harvest, dip-tins were used to carry grapes. In my childhood days we would use these tins to gather fresh fish, live bait, shrimps and yabbies.’

Egan was also short-listed for the 2006 and 2008 Victorian Indigenous Art Awards and participated in the “Looking Forward, Looking Blak” NAIDOC week exhibition at the Alfred Deakin Centre in 2007. In 2009 Egan was living in Mildura.

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Fisher, Laura
Date written:
2011
Last updated:
2011

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