View of 2024 NATSIAA exhibition, Courtesy MAGNT

View of 2024 NATSIAA exhibition, Courtesy MAGNT

 

72 finalists have been announced in this year’s 2024 Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards Telstra (NATSIAA).

The Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards (NATSIAA) is Australia’s richest art awards. This exhibition captures the attention of the nation, with an inspiring breadth of work from around Australia.​

Telstra NATSIAA is the longest running and most prestigious Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award. Experience the richness and diversity of current contemporary Indigenous artistic practice, and the pre-eminence of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander voices, nationwide, within the visual arts.

Artists share in a total of $190,000 with the impressive prize money for the major Telstra Art Award sitting at $100,000 and each of the categories awarding $15,000.

All finalists are exhibited at MAGNT, Darwin, from 22 June 2024 until 27 January 2025.

>> Click here to see the Awards winners

 

View of the 2024 NATSIAA exhibition including Noli Rictor's painting "Kamanti 2023" and Obed Namirrkki's sculpture "Kunkurra 2024", Courtesy MAGNT

View of the 2024 NATSIAA exhibition including Noli Rictor’s painting “Kamanti 2023” and Obed Namirrkki’s sculpture “Kunkurra 2024”, Courtesy MAGNT

 
 
 
SOURCE: Museum and Art gallery of Northern Territory (MAGNT).