King & Wood Mallesons First Nations Art Award 2023

King & Wood Mallesons First Nations Art Award 2023

14 September 2023 – 14 October 2023

The King & Wood Mallesons First Nations Art Award is a biennial competition that supports, showcases, and celebrates the highest standard of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art practice in Australia. Opening from 14 September to 14 October at Griffith University Art Museum, the Award will be held for the first time in Brisbane in 2023.

The major King & Wood Mallesons First Nations Art Award is $25,000, the QLD Local Artist Award is $5,000, and two, People’s Choice Awards are valued at $1,000 each. Each prize is non-acquisitive. Previous winners are Michelle Woody (Tiwi Islands, NT) in 2020 and Teena McCarthy (Barkindji) in 2018.

The distinguished judging panel including renowned First Nations journalist, writer, documentary maker, broadcaster and sound artist, Daniel Browning, writer, project manager and consultant Emma Loban, Curator Indigenous Australian Art QAGOMA, Katina Davidson and artist, researcher, curator, and cultural scholar, Warraba Weatherall. The Exhibition Patron Djon Mundine OAM is a highly accomplished curator, writer, artist, and activist.

Downloadable exhibition labels

The 2023 Finalists:

Image credit: Richard Bell, No Tin Shack 2022, video, colour, sound, 7:42 mins, looped, Installation view, ESPRESSIONI CON FRAZIONI, Castello di Rivoli, Turn. Photo by Andrea Guermani.