Listen to artist Alick Tipoti

Alick Tipoti is from Waiben Island in the Torres Strait and has become known as one of the region's most innovative artists. He draws on traditional Torres Strait religious stories and events from the past for his lino prints, where legendary heroes appear along with weapons of war, dhari headdresses, masks, drums and other artefacts associated with ritual dance and ceremony. Alick has a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Printmaking) from the Canberra Institute of Art, Australian National University. In 1998 he was awarded the Lin Onus Youth Prize in the fourth National Indigenous Heritage Art Awards. His work was on show at the inaugural Cairns Indigenous Art Fair in 2009 and he has exhibited throughout Australia, as well as in London, Berlin, Paris and New York.

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• Torres Strait Islands
• Alick Tipoti
• printmaking
• linocuts
• Cairns Indigenous Art Fair
• artist
• ritual