Gallery: Winner of the richest Indigenous art award announced
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The Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards (NATSIAAs) are a significant event on Australia’s visual arts calendar, showcasing some of the best of Indigenous art produced each year. This year’s proves no exception, featuring the traditional through to contemporary and everything in between, as the gallery reveals.
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Margaret Rarru Garrawurra has won the main prize in the Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards (NATSIAAs) for her massive woven sail, titled Dhomala (pandanus sail).Credit:Charlie Bliss
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Margaret Rarru Garrawurra, Dhomala (pandanus sail), 2022. Winner of the Telstra Art Award, the main prize in the 2022 NATSIAAs.Credit:Courtesy of the artist and Milingimbi Art and Culture
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Works on Paper award winner Gary Lee from Darwin with his work Nagi, 2022.Credit:Helen Orr
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Ray Mudjandi’s work ‘Virus Man’, 2021, a finalist.Credit:Courtesy of the artist and Marrawuddi Arts & Culture
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Emerging Artist award winner Louise Malarvie from Kununurra WA, with her artwork ‘Pamarr Yara’, 2022.Credit:Helen Orr
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Louise Robertson’s ‘A Strong Woman of the Country’, 2022. Recycled woolen blanket dyed with local Arrernte plants, embellished with wool and cotton, a finalist.Credit:Courtesy of the artist and Yarrenyty Arltere Artists
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Wandjuk Marika Memorial 3D award winners Freda Ali Wayartja and Bonnie Burangarra, from Yilan, NT with their artwork ‘An-gujechiya’ 2021. Credit:Helen Orr
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Tyrown Waigana’s work ‘The White Hand Threw a Black Spear to Create a Self-Devouring Beast’, 2021 was a finalist.Credit:Courtesy of the artist
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Bark Painting award winner’s daughter Merrki Ganambarr-Stubbs with the late Yirrkala, NT artist Ms D Yunupingu’s artwork ‘Yunupingu-The Rock’, 2021.Credit:Helen Orr
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Simone Maree Arnol’s work ‘Yalma (cross boomerang)’, 2022, was a finalist.Credit:Courtesy of the artist
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Multimedia award winner Jimmy John Thaiday from Erub, Torres Strait, with his artwork ‘Beyond the lines’ 2022.Credit:Helen Orr
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Sally Scales’ work ‘Wati Tjukura’, 2022. Acrylic on linen, finalist.Credit:Courtesy of artist and APY Art Centre Collective
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Standing from left to right: Emerging Artist award winner Louise Malarvie, MAGNT Director Adam Worrall, Telstra principal, media sponsorship Genelle Sharples, Wandjuk Marika Memorial 3D award winners Freda Ali Wayartja and Bonnie Burangarra, Multimedia award winner Jimmy John Thaiday, Bark Painting award winner’s daughter Merrki Ganambarr-Stubbs and 2022 Telstra Art Award winner Margaret Rarru Garrawurra. Seated: Works on Paper award winner Gary Lee.Credit:Helen Orr
