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Featured below news articles and editorial featuring Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders. Download a PDF of the article, or read on-line includes reviews and artist features.

Menagerie

2010 ABC
Short video on the Australian Museum's Menagerie exhibition, featuring the work of Dennis Nona & Ken Thaiday.

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King Abdullah's University of Science & Technology

2010 Press Release by Urban Art Projects
Document outlining Urban Art Project's involvement in this significant commission, containing images of Dennis Nona's work,
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Torres Strait Islander Artists Scoop This Year's 24th Telstra Indigenous Art Awards

2007
The Telstra Indigenous Art Awards are the richest and most prestigious awards for Australian indigenous artists. Dennis Nona and Alick Tipoti, who are represented by Aboriginal Art Prints, took out two of the five main awards.
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Dennis Nona: Subtle and Spiritual

Friday March 02, 2007 The Times, Arts and Entertainment by Sasha Grishin
In recent years Dennis Nona has been one of the rising stars in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander printmaking. Born on Badu Island in the Torres Strait in 1973, Nona - with other children - was trained in wood carving. When he was 16 he began carving linocuts for which he is now gaining a national reputation.
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When Alick Tipoti dreams

May 29th 2009 The Australian by Nicolas Rothwell
At once contemporary and traditional, youthful and steeped in the past, instinctual and possessed of analytic rigour, Tipoti is a man suspended between distinct cultures and reflective realms. ... read more
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Feature exhibition...

Dennis Nona & Alick Tipoti

Limited Edition Linocuts, Etchings & Sculptures

Despite their individual pursuits and methodologies, Nona and Tipoti share great mutual respect and similar goals, and are increasingly being recognised for their efforts in communicating ideas in striking multi- dimensional forms. As children they went to school together on Badu Island, later they studied at the same college of advanced education in Cairns, and then at Canberra School of Art.more...

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