Pollyanne Smith

Kaltjiti (Fregon), SA

Pollyanne Smith

Pollyanne Smith is an artist belonging to the Pitjantjatjara language and cultural group and lives in the remote community of Kaltjiti (Fregon), South Australia.

Pollyanne began weaving baskets in 2010 after learning the art from other ladies in her community. Kay Tunkin taught Pollyanne how to make sculptures in 2012, and she took to sculptural weaving immediately and with great vigour.

Pollyanne has a highly imaginative and distinctive sculptural style, using wire to create animals with quirky and unusual forms. Although always modelled from actual creatures, exaggerated features push Pollyanne's work to the edge of reality. Pollyanne took part in the Beastly exhibition at the Delmar Gallery in Sydney in 2014.

Learn to Weave Kit

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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.