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Cairns Indigenous Art Fair Symposium
Keynote speakers Dr Brenda L Croft and printmaker Alick Tipoti will lead discussion on the Symposium theme, Indigenous arts: identity, place and cultural ownership. Artists, curators, art centre managers, dealers, authors, critics, collectors, academics and arts enthusiasts are invited to join a national conversation about the issues challenging and invigorating the Indigenous arts industry at the 2O1O Cairns Indigenous Art Fair.
Dr Brenda L Croft
Dr Brenda L Croft is a member of the Gurindji/Mutpurra nations from Kalkaringi/Daguragu community in the Northern Territory. She is currently a Lecturer at the University of South Australia, and has been involved in the arts and cultural industry for more than two decades as an arts administrator, curator, writer, lecturer and consultant. Dr Croft was also the inaugural curator of the National Gallery of Australia’s National Indigenous Art Triennial, Culture Warriors in 2007. A practising artist since 1985, works by Dr Croft are held in public and private collections in Australia and overseas.
Alick Tipoti
Alick Tipoti is from Waiben Island in the Torres Strait and has become known as one of the region’s most innovative artists. He draws on traditional Torres Strait religious stories and events from the past for his lino prints, where legendary heroes appear along with weapons of war, dhari headdresses, masks, drums and other artefacts associated with ritual dance and ceremony. Alick has a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Printmaking) from the Canberra Institute of Art, Australian National University. In 1998 he was awarded the Lin Onus Youth Prize in the fourth National Indigenous Heritage Art Awards. His work was on show at the inaugural Cairns Indigenous Art Fair in 2009 and he has exhibited throughout Australia, as well as in London, Berlin, Paris and New York.
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