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This is a list of Indigenous Australian performing artists. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. Circus Con Colleano – tightrope walker Comedy Mark Bin Bakar – actor and comedian Dance Stephen Page Frances Rings Film, television and theatre Kylie Belling – actor Burnum ...
Mills Sisters – band from Torres Strait Islands; Mixed Relations – reggae, pop, rock and jazz band; Mop and the Dropouts - Brisbane rock band; Nabarlek – Indigenous roots band from Arnhem Land; Native Ryme Syndicate – Brisbane rap group; No Fixed Address – reggae/ska/rock band from Ceduna; NoKTuRNL – hip hop/metal group from Alice ...
Ilbijerri was founded in 1990 as Ilbijerri Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Theatre Cooperative by a group of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists galvanised to tell Indigenous stories from an Indigenous perspective. [1] Ilbijerri, pronounced il BIDGE er ree, is a Woiwurrung language word meaning "coming together for ceremony". [2]
Contemporary Indigenous Australian art is the modern art work produced by Indigenous Australians, that is, Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islander people. It is generally regarded as beginning in 1971 with a painting movement that started at Papunya, northwest of Alice Springs, Northern Territory, involving Aboriginal artists such as Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri and Kaapa ...
Indigenous Australian art includes art made by Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islanders, including collaborations with others. It includes works in a wide range of media including painting on leaves, bark painting , wood carving , rock carving , watercolour painting , sculpting , ceremonial clothing and sandpainting .
Alick Tipoti (born 1975), whose traditional name is Zugub, is a Torres Strait Islander artist, linguist, and activist of the Kala Lagaw Ya people, from Badu Island, in the Zenadh Kes (Torres Strait). His work includes painting, installations , printmaking, sculpture and mask -making, and is focused on preserving the culture and languages of his ...
National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award Richard Bell (born 13 December 1953 [ 1 ] ) is an Aboriginal Australian artist and political activist. He is one of the founders of proppaNOW , a Brisbane -based Aboriginal art collective.
Linda Yunkata Syddick Napaltjarri (born c. 1937) is a Pintupi- and Pitjantjatjara- speaking Indigenous artist from Australia's Western Desert region. Her father was killed when she was young; her mother later married Shorty Lungkarta Tjungarrayi, an artist whose work was a significant influence on Syddick's painting.