00:02Felicity Chapman seeks inspiration in the most unlikely places.
00:07I work with fish skins that are destined for the garbage bin.
00:10The Aboriginal weaver and textile designer uses fish skin to create textiles, hair accessories and jewellery.
00:18Art is such a powerful tool to actually solve problems for a lot of the current modern world issues that
00:27we have.
00:27She sources the skins from a local fish market.
00:31It was a random one. Felicity came in one day and she wanted to know if fish skins were available
00:35and what we had.
00:36We give it barramundi skins and coral trout skins, which are normally a by-product, go into landfill anyway.
00:41At this market alone, up to 30 kilograms of skins are dumped every day.
00:46One of the traditional foundations of all First Nations' culture is you fully utilise the resources that you harvest, hunt,
00:57gather.
00:57So we have very little waste traditionally.
01:02Ms Chapman's works will feature at the Cairns Indigenous Art Fair this month.
01:07Yes, Ms Chapman.
01:07It really is.
01:08Ms Chapman,
01:09You can see I think in the UK sensing
01:10manner,
01:10you can see we can.
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