COMMUNITY & PROJECTS

Follow Our Journey

"Since 2016, we committed to a journey of working with rural communities, and collaborating with other like-minded organisations who also engage with various marginalised communities across Sarawak, Borneo."

Highlight: The Ranee Artisan - A Weavers Tale

The Magic of Upcycling - The Journey

Once unusable fan covers, the transformation into these versatile trays is brilliant. Challenging traditional weaving skills, this...

Collaboration: Helping Hands Penan - Basket Weaving

A collaboration between the Ranee Artisan Gallery and Helping Hands, an NGO who helps the nomadic Penan tribe in Sarawak, Malaysian...

Forbidden Fruit - Rainforest Fringe Festival 2018

Rattan baskets were never regarded by the indigenous people, who made them as purely functional objects, devoid of meaning – they often...

Rural Craft Development Projects: Rumah Bebanggai Kanan

The Iban Tote Basket project was started in 2018. From this longhouse weaving community, attractive Iban motif baskets are hand-woven...

Rural Craft Development Projects: Rumah Kerapa Spak

Once, only accessible by longboat, this is one of the furthest longhouse in the Layar area, and this is our second longhouse project...

Rural Craft Development Projects: Rumah Merunjau Padeh

Our very first longhouse community we started craft development with back in 2016. Specialising in mat weaving, we have since created...

Rural Craft Development Projects: Rumah Engkranji

A project close to their hearts, this group of ladies were very keen on a cross-stitch project. A relatively new form of craft to this...

Collaboration: Narong Daun, Silk and Canvas Artist

One of Borneo’s finest indigenous and most sought-after Bidayuh artists, Narong Daun is self -taught and brings Sarawak’s unique flora...

Collaboration: Abot Gudang, Embellisher of Nature

A state treasure, Abot Gudang is a local Bidayuh artist who has mastered illustrating on non-conventional canvasses. He works mostly...