The Australian, Australia's national newspaper reports in more detail concerning the controversy affecting the 2008 Telstra Awards and the entire Australian Aboriginal art contretemps.
Read all about it here:
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,,24195875-16947,00.html
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Sunday, August 17, 2008
Saturday, August 16, 2008
2008 Telstra Awards for Aboriginal Art Announced
Awards for the 25th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards (NATSIAA) were announced on Aug 15, 2008.
Despite controversy surrounding the participation of some community art centres that declined to compete because of the involvement of certain commercial galleries, the competition proceeded without apparent complication.
The winners:
Major award - Makinti Napanangka from Kintore for her painting depicting designs associated with the rock hole site of Lupulnga. The Dreaming associated with the site is of a small bird known as the Peewee and Two Women Dreaming.
The Telstra General Painting Award (A$4,000) was given to Doreen Reid Nakamarra. Her winning work of designs associated Marrapinti rock hole site in Western Australia.
The Telstra Bark Painting Award (A$4,000) was presented to Terry Ngamandara Wilson of Gochan Jiny-jirra, Northern Territory. Terry's work is a design for spike rush (Gulach) that is found in profusion in the swamps of Barlparnarra.
The Telstra Works on Paper Award (A$4,000) was awarded to Dennis Nona from Badu Island, Torres Strait in Queensland for his etching, Dugam. It is named for the harvest star that appears in the early morning sky during August.
The Wandjuk Marika Three-Dimensional Memorial Award (A$4,000), sponsored by Telstra, went to Nyapantapa Yunupingu, a Yolngu artist from Yirrkala, for her installation entitled incidence at Mutpi.
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Reported by William Ernest Waites, proprietor of Aboriginals: Art of the First Person Gallery at TribalWorks.com.
Despite controversy surrounding the participation of some community art centres that declined to compete because of the involvement of certain commercial galleries, the competition proceeded without apparent complication.
The winners:
Major award - Makinti Napanangka from Kintore for her painting depicting designs associated with the rock hole site of Lupulnga. The Dreaming associated with the site is of a small bird known as the Peewee and Two Women Dreaming.
The Telstra General Painting Award (A$4,000) was given to Doreen Reid Nakamarra. Her winning work of designs associated Marrapinti rock hole site in Western Australia.
The Telstra Bark Painting Award (A$4,000) was presented to Terry Ngamandara Wilson of Gochan Jiny-jirra, Northern Territory. Terry's work is a design for spike rush (Gulach) that is found in profusion in the swamps of Barlparnarra.
The Telstra Works on Paper Award (A$4,000) was awarded to Dennis Nona from Badu Island, Torres Strait in Queensland for his etching, Dugam. It is named for the harvest star that appears in the early morning sky during August.
The Wandjuk Marika Three-Dimensional Memorial Award (A$4,000), sponsored by Telstra, went to Nyapantapa Yunupingu, a Yolngu artist from Yirrkala, for her installation entitled incidence at Mutpi.
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Reported by William Ernest Waites, proprietor of Aboriginals: Art of the First Person Gallery at TribalWorks.com.
Sunday, July 20, 2008
Controversy clouds upcoming Telstra Awards
According to The Australian, Australia's national newspaper, the annual Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards are coming up for criticism concerning the transparency of the competition.
Individual artists submit their works through Aboriginal Art Centres. Allegedly due to concerns about who can submit, who will be accepted and how works will be judged, six Aboriginal Art Centres are reported to have withdrawn previously submitted pieces.
Despite the controversy, Telstra's sponsorship manager has stated Telstra's continuing commitment to the event.
As more information becomes available, it will be reported here.
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Brought to you as a public service by Aboriginals Gallery and its partner web sites at ZuniLink, TribalWorks, Native-PotteryLink and Native-JewelryLink.
Individual artists submit their works through Aboriginal Art Centres. Allegedly due to concerns about who can submit, who will be accepted and how works will be judged, six Aboriginal Art Centres are reported to have withdrawn previously submitted pieces.
Despite the controversy, Telstra's sponsorship manager has stated Telstra's continuing commitment to the event.
As more information becomes available, it will be reported here.
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Brought to you as a public service by Aboriginals Gallery and its partner web sites at ZuniLink, TribalWorks, Native-PotteryLink and Native-JewelryLink.
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