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Torres Strait Islander Artists Scoop This Year's 24th Telstra Indigenous Art Awards
The Telstra Indigenous Art Awards are the richest and most prestigious awards for Australian indigenous artists.
Dennis Nona and Alick Tipoti, who are represented by Aboriginal Art Prints, took out two of the five main awards.
Dennis was the overall winner of the $40,000 main prize with his extraordinary, life size cast bronze sculpture, 'Ubirikubiri of the Awailau Kasa'. Alick Tiopoti was the winner of the Works on Paper category with his monumental, 3 metre x 1 metre linocut, 'Gabau Aimai Mabaigal'.
You can download the official award publication in PDF here (2.2mb)
Read what Simon Wright, Director of the Dell Gallery at the Queensland College of Art wrote about these two artists in a recent issue of the Queensland Art Gallery's magazine, Artlines
See Dennis Nona's work in the National Gallery of Australia's inaugural National Indigenous Art Triennial '07, Culture Warriors
Upcoming Exhibitions
- Dennis Nona (the last venue in the 2006/2007 international and Australian touring exhibition)
Art ob - November 16 to December 9 2007. 29 Hunter Street, Hobart, TAS.
- Alick Tipoti (the first venues for the 2007/2008 international and Australian touring exhibition).
- Andrew Baker Gallery - 14 November to 24 December 2007. 26 Brookes Street, Bowen Hills QLD, 4006.
- Nellie Castan Gallery - January 12 to January 27 2008. 12 River Street, South Yarra, VIC, 3141.
- Impressions on Paper Gallery - 21 February - 16 March 2008. 7 Lonsdale Street, Braddon, ACT, 2612
- New Work from Vanuatu. Bold graphic limited edition screenprints by six young artists from Mataso, Vanuatu. Exhibition opens 2 November 2007, Aboriginal Art Prints, 68 Oxford Street, Darlinghurst, NSW, 2010.
Further reading
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