Alana Garwood, born 1963, is a Yorta Yorta printmaker and painter with Wergaia and Wamba Wamba heritage, based in Canberra. Garwood’s art practice has developed alongside her career as a librarian, and she has worked at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) Library since 1989. She completed a Diploma of Fine Art in 1985 at Ballarat University, Victoria. In 1994, Alana received the photography award of the second Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander the Heritage Art Award, and her work was also hung in the 1995 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Art Award Exhibition. In that year, Garwood participated in the Studio One Inc. Printmaking workshop, Canberra, and the etchings she produced are now in the collection of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. Her work is also in the collection of the Department of Aboriginal Affairs, Victoria in Melbourne, and AIATSIS in Canberra.
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- Writers:
- Fisher, Laura
- Date written:
- 2008
- Last updated:
- 2011
