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