Title

Tipoti, Alick.

Author

Butler, Roger.

Source

[Not applicable]

Publication date

2010

Type

Biography

Language

English

Country of context

Australia

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Alick Tipoti

Alick Tipoti was born on Waiben (Thursday Island) in 1975, and had his initial education on Badu (Mulgrave Island) and Ngurupai (Horn Island) before moving to Cairns. He completed an Associate Diploma of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art at Tropical North Queensland Institute of TAFE (1995) and his Bachelor of Visual Art (Printmaking) from the Australian National University, Canberra School of Art. In 1998 Tipoti was awarded the Lin Onus Youth Art Prize in the Fourth National Indigenous Heritage Art Awards. He has exhibited widely.

“I get my inspiration from the ancient artefacts of the Torres Strait Islands, which I have had the opportunity to see in universities and museums, and from the traditional stories handed down and recorded by my father and the recognised elders of the Torres Strait.”

© Roger Butler, 2001.

Published in Islands in the sun: prints by indigenous artists of Australia and the Australasian region, exhibition catalogue, Canberra: National Gallery of Australia, 2001.

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