Cassie Leatham Fisher-Patterson
Cassie Leatham Fisher-Patterson
Ripple effects of climate change
78 × 78 × 7cm Lomandra, bush-dyed raffia, native fibres, 2024/2025
Weaving the Ripple effects of climate change the landscapes that are changing with the impacts on environmental conditions, travelling over country witnessing the harvest seasons become unsettled with biodiversity loss and more dry seasons. The bush-dyed woven mat has the colours of country that share the importance of protecting country for a better future for continued woven journeys.
Cassie is from the Dja Dja Wurrung and Daungwurrung people from the Kulin Nation. She is a multi-disciplinary Indigenous artist. Her skills revolve around weaving, fashion and jewellery design, painting, ceramics, bushtukka and cultural education. All of Cassie's works has a deep connection to Country, biodiversity and traditional sustainable living of the past, to carry on in the present, for future generations to witness and learn.