Kirrily Jordan is an award-winning multi-disciplinary artist working for social change
With a practice in textiles, basketry and socially-engaged arts, Kirrily creates spaces where people connect to their creativity, their community, and their inner strength through mindful making and shared ritual.
Her work centres ‘making as medicine,’ weaving together craft and community to call in a fairer world where people are grounded in themselves, joyful and kind to each other.
Basket weaving workshops
The Pod Project is a collaborative weaving and wellbeing project created with Warlpiri, Arrernte and Luritja young people at Yipirinya School in Alice Springs. Students have learnt a simple basketry technique and contributed to the making of large, cocoon-like pods designed as a sensory refuge that supports wellbeing, regulation and connection, while standing as a visible celebration of collective achievement within the school community. It’s a sharing of skills that are both practical and deeply human.
The project was made possible with the support of the Newmont Tanami Operations’ Local Community Investment Program.
Sextillion Ways to Kneel and Kiss the Ground is the outcome of a community weaving project with 250 people in Alice Springs. Photo Credit: Brenton McGeachie
Be the Light is an ongoing community weaving project that teaches people a simple coil weaving stitch to add to a series of collective lanterns.
Projects
Latest news
Kirrily’s work Sextillion Ways to Kneel and Kiss the Ground selected as a finalist in the prestigious Alice Prize. Photo credit Brenton McGeachie
Kirrily Jordan and Jacky Lo at the opening of Emerging Contemporaries. Photo credit: Lucy Irvine
Kirrily celebrates two wins in the Emerging Artist Support Scheme Awards. Photo credit Francis Jaye Johnson
