Shortlist announced for Victorian Indigenous Art Awards
07 September 2005
The Minister for the Arts, Mary Delahunty, announced the shortlist for the inaugural Victorian Indigenous Art Awards yesterday.
Ms Delahunty said 20 finalists, selected by an expert panel, were in the running for the $15,000 Deadly Art Award. Five artists aged 30 or less have been shortlisted for the $5,000 Lin Onus Award, sponsored by the Aboriginal Artists Development Trust.
Ms Delahunty said the hundreds of entries reflected the diversity of the Indigenous arts sector in Victoria.
“Submitted artworks included works on paper, bark and canvas, prints, photography, wooden artifacts and fibrecraft,” she said.
“They were submitted from artists across metropolitan, outer-metropolitan and regional Victoria.”
“These awards have been established to celebrate, recognise and support Indigenous artists working in Victoria.
Ms Delahunty said the inaugural awards ceremony would be presented on October 10 as part of the 2005 Melbourne International Arts Festival.
The Victorian Indigenous Art Awards judges are: Jason Eades, Chief Executive Officer of the Koorie Heritage Trust; Judith Ryan, Senior Curator of Indigenous Art with the National Gallery of Victoria; Vicki Couzens, established Indigenous artist from Warrnambool and previous recipient of the Deadly Art Award; and Dot Peters, Indigenous elder and accomplished Indigenous fibrecraft artist.
Deadly Art Award Shortlist
Peter Waples-Crowe, Where Spirits Fly Free, Nth Melbourne
irene o'loughlin, Summer down the point, Mooroolbark
Wayne Quillam, Lowanna (Beauty), Point Cook
Gail Harradine, Banksia Country, Pascoe Vale
Lorraine Austin, Encounter, Yarraville
Adrian Austin, Volcano, Preston
Bunta Patten, My Country, Mill Park
Turbo Brown, Kookaburras being cheeky to kangaroos, Mill Park
Jenny Dunne, Condah Cloak Motifs, Mill Park
Kunda-Beamo, Rock Art, Frankston
Jennifer Mulle,t Bruthen Dreaming, Bairnsdale
Jida Murray-Gulpilil, Yepenyun Bora Dancing Ceremonial Ground, Belmont
Eileen Harrison, Women Dreaming (possum stitch design), Warragul
Mick Harding, Cultural Charge, Churchill
Roy Patterson, The Dreaming of the Spirit World, Taggerty
Jennifer Solomon, Sunset along the Gippsland Lakes, Morwell
Brian McKinnon, When Two Worlds Collide, Geelong West
Lisa Kennedy, < em>Dreaming of the Landbridge, Toora
Bronwyn Razem, Mother & Father, Ballarat
Lorraine Connelly-Northey, The Gatherers, Swan Hill
Lin Onus Award Shortlist
Kye McGuire, Warraman, Flemington
Makia Mc Laughlin, My Yolngu/Yorta Yorta Dreaming, Lalor
Benjamen McKeown, Colin, Clifton Hill
Jirra Lulla Harvey, Daya, garra (Here now), Collingwood
Mandi Barton, Pathways to Culture, Melton
