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Subject: map tapestry at Uni Melb.
Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2005
From: Brendan Whyte <[log in to unmask]>
To: maps-l

http://uninews.unimelb.edu.au/articleid_2735.html (with photo of the
map-like tapestry)


University welcomes Mappamundi

[ UniNews Vol. 14, No. 16  5 - 19 September 2005 ]

A tapestry based on the work of renowned Indian artist, Gulammohammed
Sheikh was unveiled in the University of Melbourne's Sidney Myer Asia
Centre recently.

The tapestry, Mappamundi (Latin for 'world map'), is a meditation on
contemporary global civilisation. Woven by Cheryl Thornton, Rachel Hine,
Caroline Tully and Amy Cornall of the Victorian Tapestry Workshop, it
depicts Indian village life and mythology alongside Giotto-inspired
religious motifs.

Mappamundi hangs in the Sidney Myer Asia Centre's Yasuko Hiraoka Room,
named in memory of the wife of Mr Ken Myer. Yasuko was a keen weaver and
studied at one time under Cheryl Thornton, the lead weaver in the
Mappamundi project.

The work, on loan to the University, was donated to the Victorian Tapestry
Workshop by members of Yasuko's family, including Mrs Neilma Gantner, Ken
Myer's sister.

The Sidney Myer Asia Centre collection is open to groups on application to
Asialink tel: 8344 4800. Other works in the collection include John Young's
The Pilgrim's Path and Akio Makigawa's Spirit Wall, one of Melbourne's
landmark artworks.


Dr Brendan Whyte
Assistant Map Curator
ERC Library
University of Melbourne
Vic 3010
AUSTRALIA
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