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Allen Palm Island
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Born on Palm Island in 1961, Allen learnt to draw by watching his
father decorate boomerangs and souvenir ornaments for sale to visiting
day trippers. Allens father decorated these objects with traditional
patterns and iconography that would have appeared for centuries
on shields and message sticks.
As a young girl, Allen’s mother was sent to the penal colony of
Palm Island off the Queensland coast along with hundreds of indigenous
people dislocated from their traditional culture by white government
administrators adhering to the assimilationist policy of that time.
The indigenous people are known on the island as Buluguyban.
Allen attended school at Charters Towers and was introduced to pottery,
painting and batik at the Aboriginal Arts Unit of Cairns TAFE college.
Linocut printing, however, captured his artistic imagination and
flair, and this remains his speciality.
After completing the Associate Diploma in Visual Arts (Aboriginal
& Torres Strait Islander) at Cairns TAFE in 1993 Allen moved to
Darwin and gained a Diploma in Fine Arts at the NTU. His intense
optical style was developed during this Diploma in Art.
In 1998 he was Artist in Residence at RMIT in Melbourne and presented
a solo exhibition at the University Gallery.
Allen gained a scholarship and is now studying for a Bachelor of
Fine Arts at RMIT, Melbourne.
Allen uses only four colours, red and yellow representing the traditional
ochres of his island; blue the sea, and black is used to highlight
the patterns and motifs.
In 1993 his work was part of a group show at the Adelaide Festival
a show which later toured Australia. In 1997 one of his prints was
exhibited in the Telstra National Aboriginal Art Award, one of the
most prestigous indigenous art awards which is held yearly at the
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory in Darwin.
The Aboriginal word Manbarra appears on every one of Allen’s prints.
This word refers to the traditional owners of Palm Island.
exhibitions
Group exhibitions
1993 Time and Tide, Adelaide Festival Centre Foyer, Adelaide, and
touring.
bibliography
Aird, M.,1993, Campfire Consultancy,Queensland
Aboriginal Art Prints Home
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region
Palm Island
state
Qld
community
Cairns
born
1962
art centre
Queensland Aboriginal Creations
medium
acrylic paint on canvas, limited edition prints
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DENNIS NONA CURRENT SOLO EXHIBITION
Sesserae: New Works by Dennis Nona
Paris, London, Sydney, Brisbane
Dennis Nona is widely acknowledged as one of, if not the most, important living Torres Strait Islander artist.
This exhibition of installations, limited edition linocuts, etchings and cast bronze sculptures showcases the artist's most recent work.
PARIS
The Australian Embassy
6 April - 8 June, 2006
LONDON
Rebecca Hossack Gallery
35 Windmill Street,
LONDON
(Dates TBA)
SYDNEY
31 Lamrock Avenue
BONDI BEACH, NSW
30 March - 16 April, 2006
BRISBANE
Dell Gallery, Queensland College of Art
BRISBANE, QLD
3 June - 10 July 2005
OTHER EXHIBITION VENUES
Other Australian and overseas venues and dates to be announced.
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