Finishing touches

Ahmed Nimad, the carver from the Maldives, is carefully inlaying pieces of rusted metal that Lorraine Connelly-Northey has found and cut for their piece. For Nimad, the accomodation of these elements into a traditional Maldivian form is a very important expression of cultural collaboration. Traditionally, bronze is often inlaid into tombstones. Barbed wire found by Lorraine has replaced the rope pattern of the original design. All the Common Goods artists are very busy putting the final touches to their collaborations, to be presented to the public on 28 February at the Melbourne Museum.