Multiple objects with inscriptions related to the issues concerning Indigenous Australians presented in the form of an elephant.
Multiple objects with inscriptions related to the issues concerning Indigenous Australians presented in the form of an elephant.
Penny Evans, Gamilaroi, 'The Elephant' 2024. White stoneware, black underglaze, sgraffito, 200 x 200 cm. Courtesy the artist.

Various Artists

Koori Mail Indigenous Art Award 2024 Exhibition

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The 2024 Koori Mail Indigenous Art Award received over 80 entries across the country with 25 finalists selected for the exhibition. 

Kylie Caldwell, Elisa Jane Carmichael, Bindimu Currie, Karla Dickens, Penny Evans, Clare Jaque Vasquez, Kieran Karritpul, Virginia Keft, Melissa Ladkin, Jenna Lee, Emma McNeill, Patricia Marrfurra McTaggart AM, Gail Neuss, Puuni Nungarrayi, Jenn Rowe, Marita Sambono, Damien Shen, Anthony Walker.

Youth finalists: Ezra Baker, Tykiah Brown, Judy Ganambarr, Harley Green, Aria Kitchener, Zyon Nona, Chloe Rhodes.

Award categories
Major non-acquisitive Koori Mail Art Award â€“ $10,000
Innovation Award â€“ $3,000
Friends of the Gallery Youth Award â€“ $500

The award is a testament to the vibrancy and diversity of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artistic practice. It attracts entries from established, mid-career, and emerging artists working across various mediums from every state and territory.


 

Multiple objects with inscriptions related to the issues concerning Indigenous Australians presented in the form of an elephant.
Penny Evans, Gamilaroi, 'The Elephant' 2024. White stoneware, black underglaze, sgraffito, 200 x 200 cm. Courtesy the artist.

Exhibitions

An orange, yellow and grey painting of two figure hunched over exchanging flames, by Clare Milledge
Clare Milledge
Complex notophyll vine forest: ground-proof
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A black and white image by Sonka Pietrek
Sonka Pietrek
Memory of motion
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Club Ate, Ex Nilalang (video still) 2017. Courtesy the artists and Art Gallery of New South Wales Club Ate
Club Ate
Ex Nilalang, Episodes 1 - 4
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The Lismore City Library at night with a large scale projection of an animation of colourful boab trees.
Bronwyn Bancroft
Boab tree, bountiful in shape, standing on the plains
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Lismore Regional Gallery

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31 December - 2 January

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Lismore Regional Gallery acknowledges the Widjabul Wia-bal people of the Bundjalung Nation as the traditional owners of the land upon which the gallery stands. We pay respects to elders past and present, and extend that respect to all First Nations peoples and their continuing connection to land, waters, community and the arts.