RICH PRIZE GOES TO ARNHEM LAND ARTIST

Gunybi Ganambarr, a Yolngu artist from the tiny Arnhem Land town of Yirrkala, 700 km east of Darwin, won the $50,000 top prize in the $65,000 Western Australia Indigenous Art Awards lst night.

Selected from more than 170 national nominations, the 38-year-old Ganambarr won Australia's richest Aboriginal Art prize for his group of paintings and sculptures.

Yulparija artist Jan Billycan, from Bidydanga, south of Broome, won the $10,000 best WA artist award at the opening of the awards exhibition at the Art Gallery of WA. Their works are displayed with those of 14 other finalists as a centrepiece of the arts festival associated with CHOGM in October.

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