Dennis Nona

Dennis Nona is widely acknowledged as one the most important Torres Strait Islander artists.

Born on Badu Island in 1973 he was taught as a young boy the traditional craft of woodcarving. This skill has been developed and translated into the incredibly intricate and beautiful linocuts, etchings and sculptures created by the artist since the commencement of his art practice in 1989.

The artist holds a Diploma of Art from Cairns TAFE, a Diploma of Visual Arts in Printmaking from the Institution of Arts, Australian National University, Canberra and a Master of Arts in Visual Arts, Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Brisbane.

His work can be seen in the collections of most of the major Australian art institutions and in several important overseas collections. These include the National Gallery of Australia; Queensland Art Gallery; National Gallery of Victoria; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery of South Australia; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; British Museum, London; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Cambridge University Museum UK; National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland and the Museum of American Indian Arts, USA.

Nona pioneered the development of the highly intricate linocut prints unique to the Torres Strait Islands. He has documented, in a vivid visual form, the ancient myths and legends of his island and the wider Torres Strait that had previously been transmitted by oral story telling and dance.

He uses a more graphic way of storytelling. Instead of a work based on a single image like that of the traditional Torres Strait Islander art, he introduced many, following what was being done by mainland Aboriginal artists. In this way he could relate an entire narrative in one single work with all the characters and events in one image. To link the work he introduced a matrix of delicately lined clan patterning, so binding the entire story to its place of origin. Since this breakthrough, the intricate designs and bold figurative imagery created by printmakers like Nona, have given local culture a vital reinvigoration. Today they are central to a cultural revival and elders now refer to them to help them to relate ancient stories to others. These were fast fading from common knowledge and being lost to new generations of Islanders suffering the cultural dislocation often imposed by the impact European settlement and influence.

Within Nona’s work there is a celebration of island myths and legends, of how humans, animals, plants and landscape took their meaning from epic or magical events in the past. It was a culture where fighting was glorified and warriors were held in high esteem. Legendary heroes wore distinctive local headdress and masks. They played drums and used objects associated with their ritual ceremonies and dances. It was a culture of head hunters, cannibalism and raiding parties that attacked homes built in tree tops. It was a society where men, women, sorcerers and witches came to their final grief by being transformed into sea creatures or cast into the sea to become the islands and rocky outcrops evident throughout the Western Torres Strait Islands today.

The attraction of Nona’s work lies in the way he has drawn on the rich traditions of Torres Strait Islander carving which he has transferred to linocut and more recently etchings and sculpture. Far more flexible in their visual reference and expressive means than that of traditional work from the Torres Strait Islands, his works are highly skilled compositions. Each work expresses a powerful materiality that comes from exquisitely crafted hand-made surfaces, a complex of finely chiselled hand made lines which are then coloured before printing.

Curator of Australian Prints at the National Gallery of Australia, Roger Butler, says that Nona’s work represents a trend by artists to explore the physicality of the print making process instead of just the instant art making of digital processes: He comments: “He (Nona) sits there with a lot of lino and with a very sharp little chisel and cuts out those incredibly detailed little lines and gouge marks… That’s really taking it back to the processes of (German Renaissance artist) Albrecht Durer, a simple technique that makes VERY complex images.”
Subject & Themes
Melanesian influence. Denis’s linocuts, etchings and sculptures derive from his wood-carving experiences on Badu Island. He is inspired by coastal life, family, traditional medicines and the myths and legends of the Torres Strait.

Collections
Artbank, Sydney, Australia
Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, Australia
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
Australian Museum, Sydney, Australia
Australian National University Printmaking Collection, Canberra, Australia
Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat, Australia
Bond University, Gold Coast, Australia
Brighton University, Brighton, UK
British Museum, London, UK
Cairns Regional Gallery, Cairns, Australia
Cambridge University Museum, UK
Charles Darwin University Art Collection, Darwin, Australia
Flinders University Art Museum, Adelaide, Australia
Foundation Burkhardt-Felder Art & Culture, Motiers, Switzerland.
Gab Titui Cultural Centre, Thursday Island, Australia
Gateway Horn Island Museum, Horn Island, Australia
Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Surfers Paradise, Australia
Glass House Regional Gallery, Port Macquarie, Australia
Griffith University Art Collection, Brisbane, Australia
Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, USA
Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, Lake Macquarie, Australia
Machida Graphic Arts Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, Australia
Museum of American Indian Arts, New Mexico, USA
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Australia
Musee d’Art et d’Histoire, Rochefort, France
Musee des Confluences, Lyon, France
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
National Maritime Museum, Darling Harbour, Sydney, Australia
National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland
Noosa Regional Gallery, Noosa Heads, Australia
OTC Collection, Sydney, Australia
Parliament House, Canberra, Australia
Perc Tucker Gallery, Townsville, Australia
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
Queensland Museum, Brisbane, Australia
Queensland University of Technology Art Collection, Brisbane, Australia
Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute, Adelaide, Australia
The Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, Wagga Wagga, Australia
Tweed River Art Gallery, Murwillumbah, Australia
University of Wollongong Art Collection, Wollongong, Australia
University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane, Australia
Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK

Individual Exhibitions
2005 Sesserae; The Art of Dennis Nona, Dell Gallery at Queensland College of Art, Brisbane
2005 Sesserae and Other Stories, Kickarts, Cairns
2005 Sesserae; New Prints by Dennis Nona, Darwin Entertainment Centre Gallery, Darwin
2006 Sesserae; New Works by Dennis Nona, Cooee Aboriginal Art, Sydney
2006 Sesserae; New Works by Dennis Nona, Australian Embassy, Paris
2006 Sesserae; New Works by Dennis Nona, Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London
2006 Australie: le jeune homme et la mer, l’oeuvre grave de Dennis Nona (Iles du detroit de Torres, Queensland), Arts d’Australie, Stephane Jacob / Ambassade d’Australie, Paris
2006 – 2007 Sesserae; The Works of Dennis Nona Regional Tour. Rockhampton Regional Gallery, Qld. Port Macquarie Regional Art Gallery, NSW. Gab Titui Cultural Centre, Thursday Island, Qld. Cairns Regional Gallery, Qld. Cooloola Shire Gallery, Qld. New Land Regional Gallery, Adelaide SA. Logan City Art Gallery, Qld. Caloundra City Gallery, Qld
2006 Sesserae; New Works by Dennis Nona, Darwin Entertainment Centre Gallery
2006 Sesserae: New Works by Dennis Nona, Framed Gallery, Darwin
2006 Sesserae; New Works by Dennis Nona Suzanne O’Connell Gallery, Brisbane
2007 Sesserae; New Works by Dennis Nona, Impressions on Paper Gallery, Canberra, ACT
2007 Sesserae; New Works by Dennis Nona, Big Star Art Gallery, Adelaide, SA
2007 Sesserae; New Works by Dennis Nona, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne
2007 Zugulal, Art Mob, Hobart
2007 Dennis Nona, Japingka Gallery, Fremantle
2009 Muluka Pyban (Passing Down), Andrew Baker Gallery, Brisbane
2009 Muluka Pyban (Passing Down), Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra
2009 Muluka Pyban (Passing Down), Art Mob, Hobart
2009 Muluka Pyban (Passing Down), United Galleries, Sydney
2009 Treasures of the Past, Art Mob, Hobart
2010 Muluka Pyban (Passing Down), United Galleries, Perth
2011 Between sky, land and sea. Legends revisited, Australian Embassy, Paris, France
2011 Prints & Sculptures, Museum of Art & History, Rochefort, France
2011 Waii, Gold Coast City Gallery, Surfers Paradise
2011 Dennis Nona – New Works, Art Mob, Hobart
2012 The Engraved Works of Dennis Nona, Australian Art Museum La Grange, Motiers, Switzerland
2017 Muiau Kaipai Ngapa Kulai ia – The Value of our Ancestral Belif System, Art Mob, Hobart
2018 Muin-Nguz Tarrpan – Weaving My Spirit Back, Art Mob, Hobart

Group Exhibitions
1991 The Eighth National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin.
1991 Group Show, Hogarth Galleries,Sydney.
1991 Cairns Art Society Exhibition, Cairns Regional Art Gallery, Cairns, QLD.
1992 One People One Soul, Palm Court Gallery, Cairns, QLD.
1992 Colours of Black, Queensland Aboriginal Creations, Brisbane.
1992 Group Exhibition, Gallery of Australian Landscape, Brisbane.
1992 Cross Currents, Cooee Aboriginal Art Gallery, Sydney.
1992 The Ninth Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin.
1992/1993 New Tracks Old Land: An Exhibition of Contemporary Prints from Aboriginal Australia, touring USA and Australia.
1993 Aboriginal Printmakers, Northern Territory University Art Gallery, Darwin.
1993 Mixed Exhibition, Cooee Aboriginal Art Gallery, Sydney.
1993 Contemporary Prints from Aboriginal Australia, Augen Gallery, Portland, Oregon, USA.
1993 Cairns TAFE Students, Studio One, Canberra.
1993 Australian Aboriginal Printmakers, Davidson Galleries, Seattle, Washington, USA.
1994 Gold Coast Art Award, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Surfers Paradise, QLD.
1994 International Print Exhibition, Machida, Tokyo, Japan.
1994 Aboriginal Exhibition, South Australian Art Gallery, Adelaide.
1994 Malu Ural, National Maritime Museum, Sydney.
1994 Aboriginal Art Award, Heritage Commission, Canberra.
1995 Same but Different, Aboriginal and Islander Students at the Australian National University, School of Arts Gallery, Canberra.
1995 Mixed Exhibition, Fireworks Gallery, Brisbane.
2001 Islands in the Sun, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
2001 18th National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin
2001 Trakin Kultja, National Museum of Australia, Canberra
2001 Thaigy Minaral – Beautiful Patterns, Port Kennedy Hall, Thursday Island
2001 – 2004 Gelam Nguzu Kazi – Gelam My Son, Travelling Exhibition. Australian Museum, Sydney; Alcheringa Gallery, Victoria B.C. Canada; Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London, UK; Brisbane City Gallery, Brisbane, Damien Minton Gallery, Newcastle; Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra; Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne; New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale; Manning Regional Art Gallery, Taree; Stanthorpe Regional Art Gallery, Stanthorpe; Tandanya Aboriginal Cultural Institute, Adelaide; Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo ; Mildura Arts Centre, Mildura; Wagga Wagga Regional Art Gallery, Wagga Wagga; Manly Art Gallery, Manly; Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, Toowoomba; Noosa Regional Art Gallery, Tewantin; Cairns Regional Art Gallery, Cairns; Gab Titui Cultural Centre, Thursday Island.
2002 Paipa – ‘Windward’, National Museum of Australia, Canberra
2003 Beneath the Monsoon – Visions North of Capricorn, Artspace Mackay, Mackay; Cairns Regional Gallery, Cairns; Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville
2003 Dream Traces, Brighton University, Brighton, UK
2003 Tjibaou Cultural Centre, Noumea, New Caledonia
2003 Bovicai Collaborative Exhibition, Qld.
2003 Coochimadlo Island Market Exhibition, Qld
2003 Indigenous Outback Exhibition, NAIDOC Day, Brisbane
2003 Michael Fox Gallery, Brisbane
2003 Pandanus Art Collabrative Exhibition, Currumbin Beach,
2003 19th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Darwin
2003 Shell Fremantle Art Award, Fremantle
2003 Christchurch Art Gallery/Te Puna, Waiwhetu, Christchurch/Aotearoa, NZ
2004 Christchurch Art Gallery/Te Puna, Waiwhetu, Christchurch/Aotearoa, NZ
2004 Fragments, Little Stanley Street Gallery, Brisbane
2004 21st Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award
2004 Angel Orensanz International Art Award, New York, USA (Winner)
2004 Robin O’Chin Memorial Art Award, Brisbane
2004 Shell Fremantle Art Award, Fremantle
2004 Artscape Group Exhibition, Brisbane
2005 22nd Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award
2005 Shell Fremantle Print Award 1975-2005
2005 Busan International Print Art Festival, Busan, Korea
2005 ARC Art, Design & Craft Biennial, Brisbane
2006 bangu yibara: works from the MCA Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
2006 Por Gubau Giza; Footsteps Gallery, Brisbane
2006 23rd Telstra National & Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Darwin
2006 Nokturne; 24 Hour Art, Darwin
2006 Through Here; Indigenous Alumni from the ANU School of Art, ANU School of Art Gallery, Canberra
2006 L’art aborigene contemporain, Galerie Arts d’Australie, Stephane Jacob / Mediatheque Cathedrale de Reims, Reims, FRANCE
2006 Salon “ST’ART”, Galerie Arts d’Australie, Stephane Jacob, Strasbourg
2006 Masterwork; Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne
2006 – 2007 5th Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
2007 24th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award. Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory.
2007 Culture Warriors. National Indigenous Art Triennial. National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.
2007 Parcours des Mondes, Galerie Arts d’Australie. Stephane Jacob, Paris
2007 St-Art, Galerie Arts d’Australie, Stephane Jacob, Strasbourg
2007 – 2009 Gelam Nguzu Kazi – Gelam My Son, DFAT Travelling Exhibition Holiday Inn, Port Moresby PNG; Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC), Noumea New Caledonia; Lycée Agricole de Pouembout, in the Northern Province, Noumea New Caledonia; St James Theatre, Wellington New Zealand; Monument Books, Ban Mixay, Chantabouly District, Vientiane, Laos; Youth Cultural House, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam; Viet Art Centre, Hanoi, Vietnam; Yuchengco Museum, Manila, Philippines; The National Gallery, Phranakom, Bangkok, Thailand; The National Museum, Jakarta, Indonesia; Sha Tin Community Hall, Kowloon, Hong Kong; Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China; National Modern Art Gallery, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia; Oulim Nuri Arts Complex, Seoul South Korea; Shihsanhang Museum of Archaeology, Taipei Taiwan; Pegge Hopper Gallery, Honolulu, Hawaii; UN Mission Lobby, New York USA; Kluge-Ruge Collection University of Virginia, Charlottesville USA; Museum of Print History, Houston USA; Santiago Chile; Mexico City Mexico; Brasilia Brazil; Buenos Aires Argentina; Chicago USA
2008 Culture Warriors. National Indigenous Art Triennial. Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
2008 25th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award. Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory.
2008 – 2009 The Tropics, Views from the Middle of the Globe, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany
2008 Lineart, Galerie Arts d’Australie, Stephane Jacob, Gent, Belgique
2008 Estampes contemporaines : regard prospectiff 2, Galerie Christian Collin, Paris
2008 St-Art, Arts d’Australie, Stephane Jacob, Strasbourg
2008 Art Elysees, Arts deAustralie , Stephane Jacob, Champs-Elysees, Paris
2008 Estampes contemporaines : regard prospectif II, galerie Nathalie Bereau en association avec la galerie Arts d’Australie , Stephane Jacob, Chinon
2008 Estampes contemporaines : regard prospectif II, galerie Christian Collin en collaboration avec la galerie Nathalie Bereau et
Galerie Arts d’Australie, Stephane Jacob, Paris
2008 Parcours des Mondes, Galerie Arts d’Australie, Stephane Jacob, Paris
2008 Lille Art Fair, Arts d’Australie, Stephane Jacob, Lille
2009 Gaigai Ika Woeybadh Yatharewmka, Legends Through Patterns from the Past, Robert Steele Gallery, New York USA
2009 Culture Warriors. National Indigenous Art Triennial, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
2009 Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
2009 26th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award. Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
2009 Clemenger Contemporary Art Award 2009, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
2009 Menagerie, Australian Musem, Sydney
2009 Menagerie, Object Gallery, Sydney
2009 Clin d’oeil a l’Art Aborigene d’Australie, Arts d’Australie, Stephane Jacob / Cinema du Pantheon, Paris
2009 Art Elysees, Galerie Arts d’Australie , Stephane Jacob, Paris
2009 Parcours des Mondes, Galerie Arts d’Australie, Stephane Jacob, Paris
2009 Regards Croises : Australie – France, oeuvres sur papier et sculptures, Espace Beaurepaire / Galerie Arts d’Australie, Stephane Jacob, Paris
2010 Grand Nord Grand Sud, Abbaye de Daoulas & Musée des Confluences, Daoulas, France
2010 Trilogie australienne, Galerie Arts d’Australie, Stephane Jacob, Paris
2010 27th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin
2010 Malu Minar (Sea Pattern) Art of The Torres Strait, Tjibaou Cultural Centre, New Caledonia
2010 Prints From Around The Pacific Rim, Carleton College Northfield MN USA
2010 Menagerie, Melbourne Musem, Melbourne
2010 Menagerie, Queen Victoria Musem & Art Gallery, Launceston
2010 Menagerie, Tandanya: National Aboriginal Cultural Institute, Adelaide
2010 Menagerie, Western Australian Museum, Perth
2011 Menagerie, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs
2011 Menagerie, Cairns Regional Art Gallery, Cairns
2011 Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts, New York, USA
2011 Menagerie, Brisbane Museum, Brisbane
2011 Menagerie, Gladstone Regional Art Gallery & Museum, Gladstone
2011 Continuum, The Paper Mill Gallery, Sydney
2011 Malu Minar (Sea Pattern) Art of the Torres Strait, Cairns Regional Gallery, Cairns
2011 Twelve Degrees of Latitude, Gold Coast City Gallery, Gold Coast
2011 Twelve Degrees of Latitude, Cairns Regional Gallery, Cairns
2011 Twelve Degrees of Latitude, Outback Regional Gallery, Winton
2011 Twelve Degrees of Latitude, Bundaberg Regional Gallery, Bundaberg
2011 Twelve Degrees of Latitude, Hervey Bay Regional Gallery, Hervey Bay
2011 Twelve Degrees of Latitude, Redcliffe City Art Gallery, Cleveland
2011 Land, Sea and Sky: Contemporary Art of the Torres Strait Islands, Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
2011 Parcours des Mondes, Arts d’Australie, Paris, France
2011 Galerie AROA & Arts d’Australie, Neuilly sur Seine, France
2011 Art Elysees, Arts d’Australie, Paris, France
2011 Art Contemporain, galerie Clarus & Arts d’Australie • Stéphane Jacob, Ligny le Ribault, France
2011 Art d’Australie – Dennis Nona, Art Image & Arts d’Australie • Stéphane Jacob, Limoges, France
2011 Art d’Australie – Dennis Nona, Art Image & Arts d’Australie • Stéphane Jacob, Angouleme, France
2011 Malu Minar (Sea Pattern) Art of the Torres Strait, Southland Museum and Gallery, Invercargill NZ
2012 Menagerie, Wagga Wagga Regional Art Gallery, Wagga Wagga
2012 Menagerie, Western Plains Cultural Centre, Dubbo
2012 Malu Minar (Sea Pattern) Art of the Torres Strait, Pataka Museum and Gallery, Porirua City NZ
2012 Malu Minar (Sea Pattern) Art of the Torres Strait, The Suter Te Aratoi o Whakatu Art Gallery, Nelson NZ
2012 Malu Minar (Sea Pattern) Art of the Torres Strait, Te Manawa Art Gallery, Palmerston North NZ
2013 Arts d’Australie, Galerie 49/ Arts d’Australie • Stéphane Jacob, Saumur, France
2014 Arts d’Australie, Arts d’Australie • Stephane Jacob / Barclays, Paris, France
2015 Indigenous Australia, British Museum, London UK
2019 Top 20, Art Mob, Hobart

Awards
2011 – 28th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, winner works on paper
2010 – 27th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, winner works on paper
2008 – 25th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, winner works on paper
2007 – 24th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Overall winner
2007 – The Deadley Awards, winner Visual Artist of the Year
2004 – Angel Orensanz International Art Award, New York.
Cairns State High School Art Award, Cairns
Cairns State High School Aboriginal & Torres Strait
Machida International Print Exhibition, Tokyo, Japan
4th Angel Orensanz International Art Award, New York, USA
Griffith University Lions Club Equity Bursery for Excellence in the Batchelor of Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art, Brisbane
Parliament of Australia & Leichhardt Electorate Arts Achievement Award, Canberra
Commissions
Australian Indigenous Medicare Card logo
Badu Island Council mural
Thursday Island State High School mural
Cairns North State Primary School mural
Wakaid Coral Sea logo design
Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Housing poster design
Badu Island State Primary School sports shirt logo design
Kubin, Moa Island Net Ball Team logo design
Thursday Island Court House glass panels
King Abdullah University of Science & Technology, Saudi Arabia
Cairns Foreshore Authority, Cairns
University of Queensland

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