Aly de Groot's large-scale woven works see her using a variety of materials, including recycled textiles, discarded fishing nets, and light.
Her recent installation projects include "Wish Upon a Jellyfish," an installation of 100 jellyfish woven from recycled fishing line, nets, and fabrics, illuminated in Festival Park for Darwin Festival I(2021, 2022.
Multidisciplinary home-grown fibre artist Aly de Groot celebrates the unique fauna and flora of the Top End, with an emphasis on the importance of preservation. Long fascinated by the beautiful but dangerous box jellyfish, Aly combines this obsession with her other passions for marine conservation and basketry to create ethereal jellyfish art-forms from discarded fishing line and recycled fabrics – entire fleets of them, both large and small, matching their proliferation in the seas”
Darwin Festival program 2022
