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Charles Darwin University Press

The Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award 1984–2008: Celebrating 25 Years by Sue Bassett

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June 2011, no. 332
John Kean reviews 'The Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award 1984–2008: Celebrating 25 Years' edited by Sue Bassett

The Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award is the major event on the Indigenous visual arts calendar. Its significance rests with the quality art exhibited under the mantle of the award and the crowd it attracts to Darwin every August. Artists from disparate communities mingle to cement relationships through shared kinship, songlines, and history. Excited coordinators from community cooperatives mix with urbane curators and gallery owners – projects are conceived. Collectors jostle to reserve the best works.

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Loose Lips edited by Lauren Finger et al. & True North edited by Marain Devitt

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February 2005, no. 268
Michael Williams reviews True North: Contemporary Writing From The Northern Territory edited by Marian Devitt, Loose Lips: UTS Writers’ Anthology edited by Lauren Finger et al. and Best Stories Under The Sun edited by Michael Wilding and David Myers

Why are there so few new and exciting voices in Australian fiction? Why do Australian novels so consistently fail to capture the imagination of the reading public? What was the last Australian book you really liked? Where is the next generation of Australian authors going to come from? Who are three Australian writers under the age of thirty or forty?

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