Cecily Yates

Warakurna, WA

Cecily Yates

Cecily is an artist belonging to the Ngaanyatjarra language and cultural group and lives in the remote community of Warakurna, Western Australia.

Cecily began weaving Tjanpi in 2018 and quickly took to the art, creating strong, well-sewn animal sculptures made of wool and minarri grass. She remains in Warakurna where she is happily surrounded by her children and grandchildren.

Learn to Weave Kit

$40.00

Gift Card

From $50.00

Our Artists

Tjanpi Desert Weavers is a social enterprise of the Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (NPY) Women’s Council that enables women living in the remote Central and Western deserts to earn an income from fibre art.

Tjanpi represents over 400 Aboriginal women artists from 26 remote communities who make spectacular contemporary fibre art in the form of baskets and sculptures.