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Yvonne Koolmatrie

Yvonne Koolmatrie (b 1944) is an Australian artist and arts educator. She is an internationally renowned weaver, credited with preserving a traditional Ngarrindjeri weaving style from the Coorong region of South Australia, where she spent some time growing up. Koolmatrie has works in the collections of the National Museum of Ethnology in Osaka, Japan, the South Australian Museum, the National Museum of Australia, the Art Gallery of South Australia, Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute, the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, the Art Gallery of Western Australia, the Art Gallery of NSW, the National Gallery of Victoria and the National Gallery of Australia. Her work was included in the 1997 Venice Biennale. In 2016 she received the National Indigenous Arts Awards' 2016 Red Ochre lifetime achievement award - Australia's most prestigious, peer-assessed Aboriginal art prize.