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Wayne Quilliam

Country
Australia
Arts Practice :
Visual Arts
Wayne Quilliam
Wayne Quilliam is a professional Aboriginal Photographer and for more 20 years has lived and worked with Indigenous and Non-Indigenous people in a variety of areas including social documentation and the arts. His unique style encompasses the spiritual and artistic dimensions of Aboriginal culture and his art is transformed through traditional and modern practices including developing a world first technique that infuses the artwork with traditional ochre's and plant dyes. Wayne is highly sought after by Australian and International organizations' to product culturally appropriate images that accurately represent his people. His work includes documenting the Yeperenye Festival regarded as the largest gathering of Indigenous people in the modern era, the Laura Festival in FNQ and Burunga Festival in the Northern Territory. He also photographed the Aboriginal Women's Calendar ‘Jinnali on Fire' and was a finalist in the prestigious Walkley Awards for a social documentary on the ‘block' in Redfern, Sydney.

Over the past 10 years he has held exhibitions in Brisbane, Canberra, Sydney, Darwin, Melbourne and Hobart and internationally in Austria, England, Sweden, France, USA and most recently Berlin, Germany including being one of the first artists in the world to exhibit in Germanys 3 major airports.

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