GAAWAA MIYAY
BY LUCY SIMPSON
01 story
L U C Y S I M P S O N // G A A W A A M I Y A Y
"Design is a tool, making a process, and art the narrative that connects us back to story and experience. Through my work I create and interpret in ways that can often transcend words and language, flowing from deep within my bones.
Winangaylana ngay mara, my hands remember (their making continues)".
Yuwaalaraay woman Lucy Simpson, founder of Gaawaa Miyay (2009), is a process led graphic designer / textile artist and maker specialising in visual narrative, installation art, fabric and conceptual design.
02 select works
Baayangali
Bespoke mural design // Ausgrid
Image courtesy Meg Minkley + Group GSA
Image courtesy Meg Minkley + Group GSA
Dhuwi
Dhuwi // Australian Design Centre
Image courtesy Chris Chen
Image courtesy Chris Chen
Four Thousand Fish
Visual Storytelling // Sydney Festival
Image courtesy Sydney Festival
Image courtesy Sydney Festival
Baayangali
Bespoke design // Ausgrid
Image courtesy Luc Remond + Group GSA
Image courtesy Luc Remond + Group GSA
A Woven Workplace
Site Specific Design 'Nawi' // Westpac
Image courtesy There Design
Image courtesy There Design
Four Thousand Fish
Visual Storytelling // Sydney Festival
Image courtesy Sydney Festival
Image courtesy Sydney Festival
Dyalgala Reflection Pods
Site Specific Concept Design // Westpac
Four Thousand Fish
Visual Storytelling // Sydney Festival
Image courtesy Sydney Festival
Image courtesy Sydney Festival
Yilaalu
Ceramics + Fibrework // Museum of Contemporary Art 2015, FirstDraft Gallery 2017
Acknowledgement of Country
Westpac Weave // Reconciliation Action Plan: Visual Identity
Burrul Warrambool
Framed Prints // Corban + Blair Collaboration
Buunhu
Bespoke locker design // Planex + Gaawaa Miyay // Image courtesy Planex
Dhina
Digital Print // QANTAS Curates
Spirit of Things
Production Design // Stiff Gins + Performance Space
Image courtesy Performance Space (Liveworks)
Image courtesy Performance Space (Liveworks)
Ngaarr
Digital print // City of Sydney Creative Hoardings
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03 clients + collaborators
Ausgrid
City of Sydney + Inner West Councils
Dharriwaa Elders Group
Group GSA
LendLease
Planex
QANTAS
Sydney Festival
Sydney Opera House
State Library NSW
TAFE NSW
THERE Design
Westpac
33 Creative