Arrernte artist Jenni Kemarre Martiniello translates the language of Indigenous weaving into contemporary hot-blown glass forms. In this work, Martiniello emulates the long weaves, coils and looping stitches of dillybags (traditional Australian Aboriginal bags woven from plant fibres) by employing caneworking techniques to twist, pull and stretch coloured glass into entwined patterns.

Martiniello uses brown, red and green glass canes to articulate the earthy, natural palette of woven plant fibre (bush string). As caneworking allows for cooled glass to be bundled and re-stretched, the available combinations of colour and pattern — the warp and the weft they configure — are endless.