Australian Artist Ricardo Idagi Shares Skills with UVA Students
Australian artist Ricardo Idagi shared his talents, skills and sculptural styles with students at the University of Virginia. Originally from Mer, an island in the Torres Strait off the Australian mainland, he worked with students to create their takes on daris, traditional headdresses from his homeland.
Ricardo Idagi served as a visiting artist with the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia. In addition to making time for students, he also made several public appearances at Kluge-Ruhe and elsewhere in Charlottesville.
The 1907 photo featuring the men of Mer wearing daris was taken by Allan McCulloch. It is used courtesy of the Australian Museum Archives AMS164_VV2843.
The painting Island with two peaks, in a blue sea by John Baud
is used courtesy of the State Library of Queensland.
Music by Henry Forbes. Published by Ocean Ridge Music and Cypress Creek Music. Licensed by 5 Alarm Music.
experimental beds | Judy Watson | TEDxCharlottesville
This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Aboriginal Artist
Judy Watson is an Indigenous artist whose matrilineal family is from country in north-west Queensland. She co-represented Australia in the 1997 Venice Biennale, was awarded the Moët & Chandon Fellowship in 1995, the National Gallery of Victoria’s Clemenger Award in 2006 and, in the same year, the Works on Paper Award at the 23rd National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Award. In 2011 her exhibition waterline was exhibited at the Embassy of Australia, Washington, DC. Her work is held in major Australian and international collections including: National Gallery of Australia; all Australian State Art Galleries; Taipei Fine Arts Museum; St Louis Art Museum USA; The British Museum, London; Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, UK; Library of Congress, Washington, USA; Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection, University of Virginia, USA; as well as important private collections. She has exhibited widely over the past twenty-five years.
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