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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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