Aly de Groot’s woven forms and works on paper reflect and resemble the delicate sea creatures and fragile marine ecosystems that inspire her creative practice. She has exhibited extensively in Australia and abroad, including at the Tilburg Textile Museum in the Netherlands (2017). Aly’s work has also featured in numerous group exhibitions and award shows, including the Waterhouse Natural Sciences Award in 2021 where her work “Sea Birds’ was highly commended. As an artist in residence at the Museum and Art Gallery of the NT in 2022 (MAGNT) she responded to the natural sciences collection, resulting in her most recent solo exhibition- Tales of a Whale and Other Stories, a Darwin Festival visual arts event at the historical Audit House, Darwin.
“I'm the Chair of the Museum and Art Gallery of the NT and a couple of years ago MAGNT held an exhibition called FRESH. It explored the connections between new and old in the Museum's Aboriginal, Australian and South East Asian art collection, and in it, standing proudly beside the works of Albert Namatjira, Sidney Nolan, Grace Cossington-Smith and the Tiwi's Dino Wilson was Aly's Ghost Net Crocodile Study 2015. For Aly, it was most impressive artistic company to be keeping but well deserved”.
- Clare Martin, former Chief Minister, NT