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2018 Finalists

Akil Ahamat

Akil draws upon his own online experiences to consider the physical and social isolation that often governs the shaping of identity in a contemporary context.
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Betty Muffler

Betty is a renowned ngangkari (traditional healer) and senior cultural woman. Her artistic practice spans painting and tjanpi (native grass) weaving.
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Beyula Puntungka Napanangka

Beyula has been a dedicated member of Papunya Tjupi Arts Aboriginal Corporation since the company’s inception in 2007.
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Emily Parsons-Lord

Employing tragi-humour and performance, Emily Parsons-Lord interrogates the materiality of invisibility, magic, and stories we tell about reality.
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James Nguyen

James Nguyen is an interdisciplinary artist whose output stretches across drawing, installation, video and performance.
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Jelena Telecki

Jelena’s most recent work traces her interest in the ways power relations inform our decision-making and how we experience the choices we make.
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Laura Hindmarsh

Working with processes of embodiment and repetition, Laura Hindmarsh highlights and questions established hierarchies of representation.
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Leyla Stevens

Leyla Stevens’ practice is informed by ongoing concerns around gesture, ritual, spatial encounters, transculturation and counter histories.
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Lisa Sammut

Lisa Sammut’s practice explores cosmic-oriented philosophies of being and belonging through material production and spatial situations.
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Paul Greedy

Paul Greedy’s works explore themes of flow, connectivity and transformation within both physical and perceptual systems of relation.
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Rachael Mipantjiti Lionel

Rachael is a rising star of the Ernabella Arts’ painting studio. She paints the messages and stories she receives through her dreams.
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Rochelle Haley

Rochelle’s approach to movement expands painting and choreography to investigate space, structured around the sensation of the moving body.
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