Lyn Thorpe

  • Designer (Textile Artist / Fashion Designer),
  • Maker
Lyn Thorpe is a Yorta Yorta and Wemba Wemba designer who created the possum skin cloak that the "Jaara Baby" was buried in.
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Lyn Thorpe is a Yorta Yorta and Wemba Wemba designer who designed and created the cloak that the “Jaara Baby” was wrapped in for burial upon its return to its traditional country of the Dja Dja Wurrung people of Victoria. This baby was found in 1904 wrapped in a cloak and with more than 100 gifts and then spent the next 100 years in a museum collection. In 2007 Thorpe’s work Emu Feathered Skirt was Highly Commended in the Deadly Art Award category of the Victorian Indigenous Art Awards.

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Writers:
Allas, Tess Note:
Date written:
2008
Last updated:
2011

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Roles
  • Designer (Textile Artist / Fashion Designer)
  • Maker
  • Artist
  • Artist (Industrial / Product Designer)
Copyright agents
  • Thorpe, Lyn
  • Thorpe, Lyn
Related works
  • Emu Feathered Skirt (creator of)
  • Emu Feathered Skirt (creator of)
Related recognitions
  • 2007 Highly Commended - Victorian Indigenous Art Awards (received)
  • 2007 Highly Commended - Victorian Indigenous Art Awards (received)
Related events
  • Victorian Indigenous Art Awards 2007 (None)
  • Victorian Indigenous Art Awards 2007 (None)
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