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Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards The National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award (NATSIAA) is Australia's longest running Indigenous art award. Established in 1984 as the National Aboriginal Art Award by the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory in Darwin, ...
features a main prize plus six category prizes, with a total prize pool of : * Telstra Art Award – * Telstra General Painting Award * Telstra Bark Painting Award * Telstra Works on Paper Award *
Wandjuk Marika Wandjuk Djuwakan Marika OBE (1927 or 1930 – 16 June 1987), was an Aboriginal Australian painter, actor, composer and Indigenous land rights activist. He was a member of the Rirratjingu clan of the Yolngu people of north-east Arnhem Land in ...
3D Memorial Award * Telstra Multimedia Award * Telstra Emerging Artist Award


Telstra Art Award

The award was named the Telecom Australia First Prize from 1991 until 1995.. From 2022, the prize money was doubled from to .


1984 Second and third prizes


Telstra General Painting Award

First awarded in 1985, then not awarded again until 1995 when it was called the Telstra Open Painting until 2000, when the name was changed to the Telstra General Painting Award.


Telstra Works on Paper Award


Telstra Bark Painting Award


Wandjuk Marika 3D Memorial Award (sponsored by Telstra)

This award is named after notable bark painter
Wandjuk Marika Wandjuk Djuwakan Marika OBE (1927 or 1930 – 16 June 1987), was an Aboriginal Australian painter, actor, composer and Indigenous land rights activist. He was a member of the Rirratjingu clan of the Yolngu people of north-east Arnhem Land in ...
. It was previously known as the Memorial Award for Mawalan’s Eldest Son from until 1993.


Telstra Emerging Artist Award

The Telstra Youth Award was established in 2014 and was redeveloped into the Telstra Emerging Artist Award in 2017.


Telstra People's Choice Award

This prize was established in 2007.


Telstra Multimedia Award

This award was established in 2018. * 2018: Patrina Liyadurrkitj Mununggurr, for ''Dhunupa'kum nhuna wanda (Straightening your mind)'' * 2019: Gutiŋarra Yunupiŋu, for ''Yolŋu sign language (Clan language – Dhuwalandja)'' * 2020: Siena Mayutu Wurmarri Stubbs, for ''Shinkansen'' * 2021: Pedro Wonaeamirri, for ''Jilarti'' * 2022: Jimmy John Thaiday (from
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), for ''Beyond the Lines'', a video work


Discontinued awards


Museums & Art Galleries Award

This prize was first awarded in 1986 and was discontinued in 1995.


Rothmans Foundation Award

The Rothmans Foundation Award was established in 1987 and discontinued in 1994.


Peter Stuyvesant Cultural Foundation Award


Open Media Award


References


Further reading

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