Congratulations to CMS member Dean Greeno, who was named a finalist in the country's most prestigious First Nations art award - the National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Awards!
Dean's placing artwork, a paperbark, reed, plywood and driftwood sculptural piece called tunapri milaythina muka, which in English means to know sea country through making, is his view of his cultural heritage.
Inspired by the history of his family on Cape Barren Island, and his own time growing up there, Greeno, a truwulway pakana man, has "wrapped traditional canoe making inside of ship building and contemporary design" in a "physical and spiritual link to his ancestral past".
Read the article in The Examiner here: https://www.examiner.com.au/story/8717636/dean-greeno-named-finalist-in-countrys-most-prestigious-first-nations-art-award/
Dean Greeno's tunapri milaythina muka, To know Sea Country through making, a finalist in the National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Awards. Picture source: The Examiner
