Title

Prints and printmaking in Papua New Guinea.

Author

Australian Prints.

Source

[Not applicable]

Publication date

8 May 2002

Type

News

Language

English

Country of context

Australia

Full text

Islands in the Sun: Prints by indigenous artists of Australia and the Australian region will open at the Papua New Guinea National Museum and Art Gallery on 20 May 2002. The exhibition includes prints by Papua New Guinea artists Mathias Kauage, David Lasisi, Jakupa Ako, Cecil King Wungi, Timothy Akis and Martin Morumubuna. The prints, woodcuts and screenprints, were mainly produced in the 1960s to the early 1980s when printmaking flourished at Creative Arts Centre and later the National Arts School. The exhibition also includes prints by Aboriginal Australians, Maori artists and peoples of the Pacific region.

Papua New Guinea is also the focus of a major conference to be held at the University of Sydney on 11–12 July 2002. Hosted by the Research Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, Papua New Guinea, Then and Now will evaluate the process of decolonisation in Papua New Guinea. Speakers include writers, teachers, aid workers, historians, political scientists and administrators.

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