“Wisdom of the Mountain: Art of the Omie” at the National Gallery of Victoria
December 2, 2009 by All Art
Filed under Collectives & Decorative Arts
MELBOURNE.- The National Gallery of Victoria presents a beautiful selection of over thirty barkcloths in Wisdom of the Mountain: Art of the Ömie, the Gallery’s first exhibition of contemporary art from Papua New Guinea.
The Ömie, a small tribe of less than 2000 people, live on the steep, south-eastern slopes of Mount Lamington, Oro Province in Papua New Guinea.
The art of making barkcloths (nioge) is practised exclusively by Ömie women and is created from the inner bark of the paper mulberry [...]
