Alick Tipoti Ali (detail), 2000
Alick Tipoti 2000 Reproduced with permission
Badu Island, Torres Strait. Map by Alick Tipoti, originally published in Kuiyku Mabaigal 1998 Reproduced with permission |  |
Alick Tipoti was born in 1975 on Thursday Island in the Torres Strait. He has completed an Associate Diploma of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art at Tropical North Queensland Institute of TAFE. Tipoti has also received a Bachelor of Visual Art (Printmaking) from the Canberra Institute of Art, Australian National University. In 1998 Tipoti was awarded the Lin Onus Youth Prize in the fourth National Indigenous Heritage Art Awards for his linoprint, Aralpaia ar Zenikula. Selected bibliography The Fourth National Indigenous Heritage Art Awards 1998 [exhibition catalogue], Australian Heritage Commission, Canberra, 1998. Mosby, Tom and Robinson, Brian, Illan Pasin (This is our way): Torres Strait Art [exhibition catalogue], Cairns Regional Gallery, Cairns, 1998. Muecke, Marina, ‘Artists of North Queensland: Alick Tipoti’, Cairns Post, 27 June 1995, p. 39. Win-Nemou Sandra, Maillot, ‘Blood brothers’, Art Asia Pacific, No. 14, 1997, pp. 32–33. Group exhibitions 1999 ‘Illan Pasin (This is our way): Torres Strait Art’, Cairns Regional Gallery, Cairns; touring 1999–2000 Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville; University of Melbourne Gallery, Melbourne; Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute, Adelaide; Australian Contemporary Craft Centre, Sydney; Queensland Art Gallery, South Brisbane; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. 1998 ‘The Fourth National Indigenous Heritage Art Award 1998’, Australian Heritage Commission, Canberra. 1996 ‘Art ou Artifice? (Art or Artifice)’, Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Centre, Noumea, New Caledonia. |
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