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Red Ochre Award
The Red Ochre Award is an annual art award for Indigenous Australian artists. Background and description The Red Ochre Award was established in 1993 by the Australia Council for the Arts. It is awarded annually to an outstanding Indigenous Australian (Aboriginal Australian or Torres Strait Islander) artist for lifetime achievement. is one of four categories awarded at the First Nations Arts Awards (formerly National Indigenous Arts Awards) on 27 May each year. Recipients 2020s * Stephen Page AO (2022) * Destiny Deacon (2022) * Yorna (Donny) Woolagoodja (2021) *Dr Lou Bennett AM (2021) * Alison Milyika Carroll (2020) * Djon Mundine OAM (2020) 2010s *Jack Charles (2019) *Lola Greeno (2019) * Mavis Ngallametta (2018) * John Mawurndjul AM (2018) * Lynette Narkle (2017) * Ken Thaiday Snr (2017) * Yvonne Koolmatrie (2016) * Dr Gary Foley (2015) *Hector Burton (2014) * David Gulpilil AM (2013) * Warren H. Williams (2012) *Archie Roach (2011) * Michael Leslie (2010) 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indigenous Australians
Indigenous Australians or Australian First Nations are people with familial heritage from, and membership in, the ethnic groups that lived in Australia before British colonisation. They consist of two distinct groups: the Aboriginal peoples of the Australian mainland and Tasmania, and the Torres Strait Islander peoples from the seas between Queensland and Papua New Guinea. The term Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples or the person's specific cultural group, is often preferred, though the terms First Nations of Australia, First Peoples of Australia and First Australians are also increasingly common; 812,728 people self-identified as being of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander origin in the 2021 Australian Census, representing 3.2% of the total population of Australia. Of these indigenous Australians, 91.4% identified as Aboriginal; 4.2% identified as Torres Strait Islander; while 4.4% identified with both groups. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ken Thaiday Snr
Ken Thaiday (born 1950), known as Ken Thaiday Snr, is an artist from Erub (Darnley Island), one of the Torres Strait Islands. He is known for his headdresses ( dhari), masks, shark totems and kinetic sculptures, which connect to his island traditions and culture. Early life and influences Thaiday was born in 1950 on Erub, of the Meriam Mir people of Torres Strait Island. Thaiday's father, Tat Thaiday, was a cultural leader, choreographer, songwriter and gardener, and dhari played an important role in the traditional Torres Strait Islander ceremonies in Ken's youth. He has said that dance is very important to him, and that his father was one of the best choreographers. Thaiday attended school on Thursday Island until he was fifteen, when he and his family settled in Cairns in Far North Queensland, Australia. He worked for Queensland Rail for over ten years, and also in the mining industry in the Pilbara in Western Australia. The experience in assembling and dissembling machinery ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimmy Little
James Oswald Little, AO (1 March 19372 April 2012) was an Australian Aboriginal musician, actor and teacher, who was a member of the Yorta Yorta tribe and was raised on the Cummeragunja Reserve, New South Wales. Little started his professional career in 1951, as a singer-songwriter and guitarist, which spanned six decades. For many years he was the main Aboriginal star on the Australian music scene. His music was influenced by Nat King Cole, Johnny Mathis and American country music artist Jim Reeves. His gospel song "Royal Telephone" (1963) sold over 75,000 copies, and his most popular album, ''Messenger'', peaked at No. 26 in 1999 on the ARIA Albums Chart. At the ARIA Music Awards of 1999, Little was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame and won an ARIA Award for Best Adult Contemporary Album. On Australia Day (26 January) 2004, he was made an Officer of the Order of Australia with the citation, "For service to the entertainment industry as a singer, recording artist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johnny Bulunbulun
Johnny Bulunbulun (1946-2010) was a Ganalbingu Aboriginal artist. He had a posthumous joint exhibition with Zhou Xiaoping in Beijing and Melbourne, called " Trepang: China & the Story of Macassan - Aboriginal Trade". Awards Since 1993, the Australia Council for the Arts, the arts funding and advisory body for the Government of Australia, has awarded a Red Ochre Award to an outstanding Indigenous Australian (Aboriginal Australian or Torres Strait Islander) artist for lifetime achievement. In 2004, it was awarded to Bulunbulun. Exhibitions *Trepang: China & the story of Macassan – Aboriginal Trade, Capital Museum, Beijing. *Trepang: China & the story of Macassan – Aboriginal Trade, Melbourne Museum. Collections *Artbank, Sydney. *Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney *Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth *Central Collection, Australian National University, Canberra *Djomi Museum, Maningrida *Edith Cowan University Collection Perth Western Australia *Flinders Unive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seaman Dan
Henry Gibson Dan (25 August 1929– 30 December 2020), known as Seaman Dan, an Indigenous Australian, was a Torres Strait Islander singer-songwriter with a national and international reputation whose first recording was released in 2000. His album ''Perfect Pearl'' won the ARIA Award for Best World Music Album in 2004 and in 2009 won again with ''Sailing Home''. He performed in Japan and throughout Australia, most notably at the National Folk Festival (Australia), National Folk Festival, Port Fairy Folk Festival, Darwin Festival, Adelaide Festival, Adelaide and Adelaide Fringe Festivals, Laura Dance and Music Festival, Tasmania's 10 Days on the Island Festival, NAIDOC Ball, and at the National Museum of Australia's Tracking Kultja Festival. Early life Seaman Dan was born on Thursday Island in the Torres Strait Islands Region of Far North Queensland, far-north Queensland, Australia in 1929. His great-grandfather was a sailor from Jamaica in the West Indies and his great-grandmo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom E
Tom or TOM may refer to: * Tom (given name), a diminutive of Thomas or Tomás or an independent Aramaic given name (and a list of people with the name) Characters * Tom Anderson, a character in ''Beavis and Butt-Head'' * Tom Beck, a character in the 1998 American science-fiction disaster movie '' Deep Impact'' * Tom Buchanan, the main antagonist from the 1925 novel ''The Great Gatsby'' * Tom Cat, a character from the ''Tom and Jerry'' cartoons * Tom Lucitor, a character from the American animated series ''Star vs. the Forces of Evil'' * Tom Natsworthy, from the science fantasy novel ''Mortal Engines'' * Tom Nook, a character in ''Animal Crossing'' video game series * Tom Servo, a robot character from the ''Mystery Science Theater 3000'' television series * Tom Sloane, a non-adult character from the animated sitcom ''Daria'' * Talking Tom, the protagonist from the ''Talking Tom & Friends'' franchise * Tom, a character from the '' Deltora Quest'' books by Emily Rodda * Tom, a cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doris Pilkington Garimara
Doris Pilkington Garimara (born Nugi Garimara; c. 1 July 1937 – 10 April 2014), also known as Doris Pilkington, was an Australian author. Garimara wrote ''Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence'' (1996), a story about the stolen generation, and based on three Aboriginal girls, among them Pilkington's mother, Molly Craig, who escaped from the Moore River Native Settlement in Western Australia and travelled 2,414 km (1,500 miles) for nine weeks to return to their family. Biography Pilkington was born at Balfour Downs Station, near the north Western Australian settlement of Jigalong. Her mother, Molly, named her Nugi Garimara, but she was called Doris after Molly's employer at the station, Mary Dunnet, who thought Nugi was "a stupid name". As her birth was unregistered, her birth date was recorded as 1 July 1937 by the Department of Native Affairs.Stephens, TonyAll tracks lead to Jigalong ''The Sydney Morning Herald'', 7 December 2002. She was taken from her mother to be raised ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arnhem Land
Arnhem Land is a historical region of the Northern Territory of Australia, with the term still in use. It is located in the north-eastern corner of the territory and is around from the territory capital, Darwin. In 1623, Dutch East India Company captain Willem Joosten van Colster (or Coolsteerdt) sailed into the Gulf of Carpentaria and Cape Arnhem is named after his ship, the ''Arnhem'', which itself was named after the city of Arnhem in the Netherlands. The area covers about and has an estimated population of 16,000, of whom 12,000 are Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Two regions are often distinguished as East Arnhem (Land) and West Arnhem (Land), and North-east Arnhem Land is known to the local Yolŋu people as Miwatj. The region's service hub is Nhulunbuy, east of Darwin, set up in the early 1970s as a mining town for bauxite. Other major population centres are Yirrkala (just outside Nhulunbuy), Gunbalanya (formerly Oenpelli), Ramingining, and Maningrida. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Leslie (dancer)
Michael Leslie is an Indigenous Australian dancer and choreographer. In 1979 Leslie was awarded the Churchill Fellowship to further his studies which he used in 1981. Leslie was part of team which created the following organisations: the Aboriginal Centre for the Performing Arts; The Black Swan State Theatre Company, Black Swan Theatre Company; Marrugeku Physical Theatre and the NAISDA Dance College. He created the Michael Leslie Pilbara Performing Arts Program to expose local children to the performing arts. In 1993, he choreographed the first Aboriginal Australian musical, ''Bran Nue Dae''. In 2010 he received the Red Ochre Award from the Australia Council for the Arts, receiving . In 2018, he performed at the Ochre Contemporary Dance Company's Australian Premiere Season of ''3 point 3.'' References {{DEFAULTSORT:Leslie, Michael Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Australian choreographers Australian male dancers Indigenous Australian dancers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Archie Roach
Archibald William Roach (8 January 1956 – 30 July 2022) was an Australian singer, songwriter and Aboriginal Australian, Aboriginal activist. Often referred to as "Uncle Archie", Roach was a Gunditjmara and Western Bundjalung people, Bundjalung elder who campaigned for the rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. His wife and musical partner was the singer Ruby Hunter (1955–2010). Roach first became known for the song "Took the Children Away", which featured on his debut solo album, ''Charcoal Lane'', in 1990. He toured around the globe, headlining and opening shows for Joan Armatrading, Bob Dylan, Billy Bragg, Tracy Chapman, Suzanne Vega and Patti Smith. His work has been recognised by numerous nominations and awards, including a Deadly Award for a "Lifetime Contribution to Healing the Stolen Generations" in 2013. At the 2020 ARIA Music Awards on 25 November 2020, Roach was inducted into their ARIA Hall of Fame, hall of fame. His 2019 memoir and accompanying ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warren H
A warren is a network of wild rodent or lagomorph, typically rabbit burrows. Domestic warrens are artificial, enclosed establishment of animal husbandry dedicated to the raising of rabbits for meat and fur. The term evolved from the medieval Anglo-Norman concept of free warren, which had been, essentially, the equivalent of a hunting license for a given woodland. Architecture of the domestic warren The cunicularia of the monasteries may have more closely resembled hutches or pens, than the open enclosures with specialized structures which the domestic warren eventually became. Such an enclosure or ''close'' was called a ''cony-garth'', or sometimes ''conegar'', ''coneygree'' or "bury" (from "burrow"). Moat and pale To keep the rabbits from escaping, domestic warrens were usually provided with a fairly substantive moat, or ditch filled with water. Rabbits generally do not swim and avoid water. A ''pale'', or fence, was provided to exclude predators. Pillow mounds The most ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Gulpilil
David Dhalatnghu Gulpilil (1 July 1953 – 29 November 2021), known professionally as David Gulpilil and posthumously (at his family's request, to avoid naming the dead) as David Dalaithngu for three days, was an Indigenous Australian actor and dancer, known for the films ''Walkabout'', ''Storm Boy'', ''Crocodile Dundee'', ''Rabbit-Proof Fence'' and '' The Tracker''. He was one of the Yolngu people and was raised in a traditional lifestyle in Arnhem Land, in northern Australia, and was a skilled dancer as a young man when British director Nicolas Roeg recognised his talent. He also made several appearances on stage. He was honoured with numerous awards for individual films and for lifetime achievement, and also published books and artworks. Early life and education Gulpilil was probably born in 1953, although he stated in the 2021 documentary about his life, ''My Name is Gulpilil'', that he did not know how old he was. Local missionaries recorded his birth on 1 July 1953, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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