Papua New Guinean art has a long rich diverse tradition. In particular, it is world-famous for carved wooden sculpture: masks, canoes and story-boards. Papua New Guinea also has a wide variety of clay, stone, bone, animal and natural die art. Many of the best collections of these are held in overseas museums.
Some of the artists regarded as being in the first wave of contemporary art in Papua New Guinea are: Mathias KauageOBE (born 1944),
Timothy Akis
Timothy Akis, born around 1944 on the
Joe Nalo Joe Nalo (born 1951) is an artist from Papua New Guinea. Nalo is a painter, printmaker, art teacher and curator. He was the first curator for contemporary art at the National Museum and Art Gallery of Papua New Guinea. Nalo has been described in the ...
, all from the tough urban area of
Port Moresby
(; Tok Pisin: ''Pot Mosbi''), also referred to as Pom City or simply Moresby, is the capital and largest city of Papua New Guinea. It is one of the largest cities in the southwestern Pacific (along with Jayapura) outside of Australia and New Z ...
. Kauage won Australia's
Blake Prize for Religious Art
The Blake Prize, formerly the Blake Prize for Religious Art, is an Australian art prize awarded for art that explores spirituality. Since the inaugural prize in 1951, the prize was awarded annually from 1951 to 2015, and since 2016 has been a ...
Glasgow
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, and he had a solo show in 2005 at the
Horniman Museum
The Horniman Museum and Gardens is a museum in Forest Hill, London, England. Commissioned in 1898, it opened in 1901 and was designed by Charles Harrison Townsend in the Modern Style. It has displays of anthropology, natural history and musical ...
, "Kauage's Visions: Art from Papua New Guinea". Other noted Papua New Guinean visual artists include Larry Santana, Martin Morububuna and Heso Kiwi.
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File:The Childrens Museum of Indianapolis - Woven fiber male spirit dance mask.jpg, A male spirit dance mask from Kabriman Village, Blackwater River Basin, East Sepik Province, 1960–1973. In the collection of
The Children's Museum of Indianapolis
The Children's Museum of Indianapolis is the world's largest children's museum. It is located at 3000 North Meridian Street, Indianapolis, Indiana in the United Northwest Area neighborhood of the city. The museum is accredited by the American Al ...
Image:STA 2389–92 a.JPG, Carved tree trunks, Stanford sculpture garden.
Image:IMG 2789–96 New Guinea.JPG, Views of wooden sculpture by Yesu Minja and Nanqui Nokwi, Membor Apokiom and Naui Saunambui, from Bangwis village, Kwoma, sponsored by Bonnie Brae, Stanford University.
The Nouméa Biennale (an art fair in
New Caledonia
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) includes works from Papua New Guinea.
See also
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Culture of Papua New Guinea
The culture of Papua New Guinea is many-sided and complex. It is estimated that more than 7000 different cultural groups exist in Papua New Guinea, and most groups have their own language. Because of this diversity, in which they take pride, man ...