Dulka Warngiid (Land of All) was launched as part of Dame Elisabeth Murdoch’s 99th birthday celebrations, and its completion coincided with her 100th birthday celebrations in February 2009. This tapestry, an interpretation of a painting by seven Aboriginal women from Bentinck Island in the Gulf of Carpentaria, brings together two of Dame Elisabeth’s loves: tapestry and music.

Dame Elisabeth is Patron of both the Australian Tapestry Workshop and the Melbourne Recital Centre. This vibrant tapestry can be thought of as a map, or landscape, with each of the artists placed in their story place within this abstracted Island image. Unusually, this interpretation is a one to one scale of the artwork, which is owned by the National Gallery of Victoria.

The Workshop was established in 1976 and has since produced a significant collection of tapestries for a wide range of purposes such as public art commissions, site-specific designs for public and residential buildings, as well as private, public and corporate collections across Australia and abroad. Public tapestries commissioned from the Workshop hang in a range of institutions including the Great Hall at the National Gallery of Victoria (International), the foyers of Sofitel Melbourne and St Vincent’s Hospital, the Melbourne Museum and the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

Visitors are invited to view completed works displayed in a gallery setting as well as current works in progress on the loom during opening hours.