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Winya is supported by a number of renowned Indigenous Artists, who can work with your Interior Design firm on design and colour to produce large format Corporate paintings and murals, and then translate these into unique fabrics, bespoke loungesand ottomans, tables and timber goods, to achieve the design you require for both individual fit outs and also larger scale branding that reinforces your Company’s Indigenous engagement .
Bibi Barba
Tribe: Durumal/Woka Woka, North Queensland
Bibi Barba was born in Roma, a town in the Maranoa district of South West Queensland, and raised in Liverpool, Sydney. The daughter of Aboriginal Featherweight boxing champion Buddy Claire, Bibi’s practice is inspired by her Grandmother’s storytelling and her love of the land.
Speaking fondly about her childhood Bibi says, “Every Sunday night, we’d go to Nan’s for dinner, and she would tell us stories of her life. She would say, ‘you have to go back home. Go home and get the feeling for your country. Feel it. Paint it’”.
Bibi did just that: “I adored my Grandmother. Even at 19, I would cuddle up to her, all the kids would. So I went back to the Australian Bush and started to physically feel my culture. That’s what she told me to do. In a way, I’m saying thank you to her in my paintings”.
Bibi’s paintings are instantly recognisable, merging a strong sense of design and colour with vivid stories of her culture. Having invented an original method for painting on silk canvas, her works have a vitality and rich lustre that compliments her use of repetitive patterns and motifs.
Bibi’s work is held in a number of private collections in Australia and internationally, including the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Switzerland, Germany and the United States. She works closely with children and people with disabilities, conducting numerous mural design and art workshops. In 2015 she had the pleasure of conducting a private art workshop for the children of celebrities Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt.
See Bibi's web page and a gallery of her works www.bibibarba.com
A stunning example of Bibi's work for the Royal Flying Doctor Service, representing the Service's travel across the sea and land and the linking of regional Australia through its life-saving service.
Bibi consulted with RFDS and employed thier Corporate colours
Artwork like this can adorn a key locations in your Company and can be replicated into the fabrics for seating and accoustic panelling, and screening throughout your organisation .
Winya can also create the images and fabrics in the colours you need to suit your design themse or your Corporate Branding. We use Pantone Fasion and Home as our colour reference
