Robert Steele Gallery Exhibit: Nona & Tipoti

 

19-31 January 2009

oPENING RECEPTION: 19 JANUARY, 6-8PM

Robert Steele Gallery
511 W. 25th Street
Phone: (212) 243-0165

*This is a Satellite Event of Australia Week.

Robert Steele Gallery presents an exhibition of over 80 works by renowned Indigenous artists, Dennis Nona and Alick Tipoti.

Not since Alfred Haddon's Cambridge University sponsored exhibition in the late 19th century has the material culture of the Torres Strait enjoyed such international interest. Ironically, it was the work Haddon collected that has inspired Dennis Nona and Alick Tipoti, two artists who occupy key positions in the contemporary revival of Torres Strait art.

The artists, who are in their mid 30s, come from the sparsely populated island of Badu in the Western Torres Strait. The traditional carving skills of their ancestors have been adapted to produce very contemporary, complex and highly intricate linoleum prints and metal sculptures.

Their work is shown in all the major museums in Australia, and also in a number of important institutions in the UK, France and the USA.

Among the works are large sculptures and 5 meter long prints.

For more information contact: robert@robertsteelegallery.com