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Featured below news articles and editorial featuring Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders. Download a PDF of the article, or read on-line includes reviews and artist features.

Menagerie

2010 ABC
Short video on the Australian Museum's Menagerie exhibition, featuring the work of Dennis Nona & Ken Thaiday.

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King Abdullah's University of Science & Technology

2010 Press Release by Urban Art Projects
Document outlining Urban Art Project's involvement in this significant commission, containing images of Dennis Nona's work,
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Dennis Nona: Between Sky, Land and Sea

2011
Short video of the Dennis Nona: Between Sky, Land and Sea exhibition, featuring interviews with Dennis Nona and Stephane Jacob

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Torres Strait Islander Artists Scoop This Year's 24th Telstra Indigenous Art Awards

2007
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.
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Dennis Nona: Subtle and Spiritual

Friday March 02, 2007 The Times, Arts and Entertainment by Sasha Grishin
In recent years Dennis Nona has been one of the rising stars in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander printmaking. Born on Badu Island in the Torres Strait in 1973, Nona - with other children - was trained in wood carving. When he was 16 he began carving linocuts for which he is now gaining a national reputation.
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When Alick Tipoti dreams

May 29th 2009 The Australian by Nicolas Rothwell
At once contemporary and traditional, youthful and steeped in the past, instinctual and possessed of analytic rigour, Tipoti is a man suspended between distinct cultures and reflective realms. ... read more
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2010 Western Australian indigenous art awards artists announced

Friday 23rd April 2010 Government of Western Australia by John Day
The finalists in the nation's richest indigenous arts prize, the Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards, were today announced by Culture and the Arts Minister John Day.

Mr Day congratulated the 16 artists who have been invited to participate in the awards exhibition and have the opportunity to share in $65,000 in prizes.

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Feature exhibition...


Dennis Nona: Between Sky, Land and Sea

 Recent works: Prints and Sculptures

The exhibition presents a series of new works by Dennis Nona that majestically combine engraving and sculpture: 33 etchings; 6 linocuts; 11 sculptures and a remarkable sand installation. The exhibition features monumental works of exceptional technical calibre including a spectacular four-metre bronze sculpture involving a crocodile and a human figure, a six-metre linocut and an etching of 5 by 2 metres.

The art of Dennis Nona transports the viewer to a captivating dream world through the imaginative combination of sea creatures (turtles, dugongs, sharks and crocodiles), with totemic representations of the stars, or by setting highly inventive forms and Jérôme Bosch-like characters, against subtle background narratives.)

The art of Dennis Nona transports the viewer to a captivating world through the imaginative combination of totemic sea creatures (turtles, dugongs, sharks, crocodiles and sting rays), the constellations, mythical Jérôme Bosch-like figures within complex background narratives.

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