Born in 1973 on Badu (Mulgrave) Island in the western Torres Straits, Dennis Nona is a carver, sculptor, etcher and linocut printmaker. He was awarded the 4th International Angel Orensanz Foundation Art Award in New York and the 2007 Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory in Darwin, NT, for his sculptural piece Ubirikubiri, which depicted a large bronzed crocodile carrying a man upon its back.
Nona participated in the first Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander triennale, Culture Warriors (2007) at the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra.
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- Writers:
- Allas, Tess
- Date written:
- 2008
- Last updated:
- 2011
