22nd Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award
Winner Telstra Award
Blackstone Tjanpi Weavers Kantjupayi Benson, Nuniwa Donegan (dec'd), Angaliya Mitchell, Margaret Donegan, Melissa Donegan, Mary Smith, Freda Lane, Diedre Lane, Elaine Lane, Wendy Lane, Janet Lane, Janet Forbes, Shirley Bennet, Gail, Angela Lyon, Sarkaway Lyon, Ruby Forbes, Jean Lane Ngaanyatjarra language Blackstone WA
Tjanpi Grass Toyota 2005 Raffia, grass, jute string, chicken wire, steel
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Exhibition Dates: 12 August 2005 - 23 October 2005
Opening: 6pm Friday 12 August 2005
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory,
Conacher Street, Bullocky Point, Darwin.
Free entry
The opening night of the Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award is a major dry season event in Darwin and attracts visitors and artists from all over the country. The evening provides free entertainment from Indigenous traditional and contemporary performers in a classic tropical sunset beachside setting on the lawns in the MAGNT grounds. The event, at which winners are announced and prizes presented, is free and includes entrance to the exhibition. All are invited to BYO food and drink.
The 2005 exhibition features 119 works in a wide range of themes, styles and media including paintings on bark, canvas and paper, prints, sculpture, fibre art, ceramics, glass, photography, digital media and video.
The five categories in which prizes are awarded are:
- the Telstra First Prize
- the Telstra General Painting Award
- the Telstra Bark Painting Award
- the Telstra Work on Paper Award
- the Wandjuk Marika 3D Memorial Award (sponsored by Telstra)
Download for 2005
- View the List of Works (pdf 638Kb)
- Download a brochure of the Telstra First Prize and Media Category Winners (pdf 946Kb)
Contact
The Award Coordinator
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern (MAGNT)
GPO Box 4646
Darwin NT 0801
Australia
Phone: +61 8 8999 8203 or +61 8 8999 8264
Facsimile: +61 8 8999 8148
Email: natsiaa@nt.gov.au
Background
The Award was founded in 1984 as the National Aboriginal Art Award by the Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory. The aim of the Award is to recognise the important contribution made by Indigenous artists and to promote appreciation and understanding of the quality and diversity of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art from rural and urban based Indigenous artists throughout Australia, working in traditional and contemporary media. The Award is an important showcase for both established and emerging artists and has come to be regarded as the premier national event in the Australian Indigenous art calendar.
The Award attracts a range of Indigenous artists from all parts of the country and up to 150 works are selected each year from up to 500 entries. The diversity and style of work submitted each year reflects the changing face of contemporary Aboriginal art practice.
Telstra has sponsored the Award since 1992 and its support has continued to further enhance the profile and prestige of the Award. In 2000, Telstra doubled the First Prize money from $20,000 to $40,000 making it the highest amount offered for any Indigenous art award. The First Prize is acquisitive and enables the winning work each year, along with others, to be retained in the collection of the Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory courtesy of Telstra sponsorship. Telstra has recently announced its ongoing support for the Award, amounting to a total of over $1 million in sponsorship over the next five years.
As well as providing $56,000 in prize money, Telstra has twice sponsored a travelling exhibition, in 2000 and 2003, enabling around 40 - 50 selected works to be shown in regional galleries around Australia. This tour is particularly important as it presents and promotes the richness of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander art to a wide audience across the country.
NATSIAA Archives
2004 - 21st Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award
2003 - 20th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award
For information and Preselection Forms please contact:
The Award Coordinator
Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT)
GPO Box 4646
Darwin NT 0801
Australia
Phone: +61 8 8999 8203 or +61 8 8999 8201
Facsimile: +61 8 8999 8148
Email: natsiaa@nt.gov.au
