Silver Jubilee Telstra Art Award
winners announced
Makinti Napanangka from Kintore in the Northern Territory has been awarded Australia’s premier Indigenous art
prize at the 25th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art
Award. Her untitled art work, in synthetic polymer paint on linen, was tonight
awarded the coveted $40,000 Telstra Award by Northern Territory Government
Deputy Chief Minister Marion Scrymgour and Mr Geoff Booth, General Managing
Director, Telstra Country Wide, at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern
Territory (MAGNT) in Darwin. The winning painting depicts designs associated
with the site of Lupulnga, a rockhole situated south of the Kintore Community.
The Peewee (small bird) Dreaming is associated with this site, as well as the
Kungka Kutjarra or Two Travelling Women Dreaming. www.nt.gov.au
Silver Jubilee Telstra Art Award
winners announced
Makinti Napanangka from Kintore in the Northern Territory has been awarded Australia’s premier Indigenous art
prize at the 25th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art
Award. Her untitled art work, in synthetic polymer paint on linen, was tonight
awarded the coveted $40,000 Telstra Award by Northern Territory Government
Deputy Chief Minister Marion Scrymgour and Mr Geoff Booth, General Managing
Director, Telstra Country Wide, at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern
Territory (MAGNT) in Darwin. The winning painting depicts designs associated
with the site of Lupulnga, a rockhole situated south of the Kintore Community.
The Peewee (small bird) Dreaming is associated with this site, as well as the
Kungka Kutjarra or Two Travelling Women Dreaming. www.nt.gov.au
