Transitions : 17 years of the National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award.

A Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory travelling exhibition 2000. At head of title: Telstra presents. Darwin, N.T. : Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, 2000. Quarto (270 x 210 mm), pictorial stiff wrappers, pp. 120, illustrated in colour; a presentation copy inscribed and signed on the title page for noted art collectors and philanthropists Dr. Colin and Liz Laverty by Indigenous artists Gertrude (Gertie) Huddleston (a 1999 prizewinner), and Angelina George, as one of the “Joshua Girls or Sisters” (from Ngukurr in southern Arnhem Land); extensively annotated by Colin(?) Laverty; loosely enclosed are two digital print-outs from the Karen Brown Gallery (Darwin) of Angelina George paintings which were presumably acquired by the Lavertys around this time.

‘Reflects on seventeen years of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award; essays address changes in style issues of the last seventeen years; growth of the Indigenous art market; use of the terms traditional and contemporary; urban and remote area artists; meaning in Indigenous art; judging Indigenous art. (Trove)