Alison Winn-Fishing For <emories -woven wall hanging

This piece represents my oyster farmer and fishermen great-grandfather, grandfather, uncle, step-father and brother and the place and river on which they have fished and lived all my life. It connects to memories of their fishing shacks on the Myall river, helping them boil up prawns and check nets, fishing with old hand reels from rowboats with my grandfather and mother, watching my great-grandfather and grandfather tend their oyster leases. My family have lived continuously on the Myall River and shores of Port Stephens since the late 1880’s and it is the place my body feels ‘home’ deep in its bones.

Size: 600mm diameter

Medium: Encaustic coated corrugated iron, vintage fishing line and reel, vintage rope, cotton thread, sari silk and fish scales