Melbourne based Gunditjmara oil on canvas painter, Adrian Austin was studying for his Certificate III in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art and Design at the Northern Melbourne Institute of TAFE (NMIT) in 2005. That same year he was in three group exhibitions; Gathering of the Land at A-Space, NMIT, Sorry – It’s not so hard to say at Bundoora Homestead and Long Ago, Here Today at LaTrobe Street Gallery. He was a finalist in the 2005 Victorian Indigenous Art Awards with his painting, Blue Streaks of Light 2005 that Austin describes in the Awards catalogue as“a spritual painting. The face of a Dreaming spirit is included in the body of the painting.” He aslo states that he enjoys working with “abstract imagery that flows from my mind.”
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- Writers:
- Allas, Tess
- Date written:
- 2009
- Last updated:
- 2011
