This year's Xstrata Award promises another rich and varied line-up of Indigenous artworks. LOUISE MARTIN-CHEW short-lists her winners.

Xstrata Coal Emerging Indigenous Art Award 2008

Gallery of Modern Art Brisbane

11 July–12 October 2008

Winner announced: Xstrata Coal and the Queensland Art Gallery Congratulate GUNYBI GANAMBARR, winner of the 'Xstrata Coal Emerging Indigenous Art Award 2008'.

(For further information from QAG website click here)

Now in its third year, Brisbane’s $30,000 acquisitive Emerging Indigenous Art Award has already made its mark and each year brings us a number of hot Indigenous art talents from throughout Australia. Usually there is a mixture of known and lesser-known work, and this year is no exception. Including 10 artists — from 20-year-old Beaver Lennon (South Australia) to Loongkoonan (Western Australia), who is 98 years old — it covers artistic territory as wide-ranging as the age span.

Image: Patsy Marfura, Durrmu (body painting dot), 2007, synthetic polymer paint on Belgian linen, 109 x 109cm. Courtesy Durrmu Arts, Peppimenarti.

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