00:00The shimmer of honey flowing from a fallen ancestral tree, the Yolngu-Marakulu clan's
00:09honeybee design passed down from father to daughter.
00:13The softly spoken Gaipalani recounting her father's words that led her to create Buruwu
00:20blossom.
00:21Gaipalani's assemblage of etched road signs, the overall winner of the National Aboriginal
00:44and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards.
00:46Among this year's category winners, Illawanta Ken for her eagle story, Owen Yellinger for
00:52his mermaid sculpture, Lucy Yarrawanga's telling of a rainbow serpent myth and Sonia Goyela's
00:59masterful pandanus weaving.
01:01One of the year's youngest winners used screen recordings with all their flaws of virtual
01:07travels in her home country.
01:08Then I spend time with that screen recording and find these kind of moments of glitch and
01:15kind of tear, which for me represents a kind of tear in these western understandings of
01:24place.
01:25And it's the image of a young man playing with a sailboat that won the Natsia work on paper
01:30category.
01:31His family was on the river.
01:32They were setting up camp and I saw it from my kitchen window and whenever there's activities
01:38happening along the river, I sometimes go and join them.
01:42And when I saw that, I saw a loving family that was supporting him with this little boat
01:48that he had brought back from school into the community.
01:52And I wanted to support that.
01:54Some of Australia's most skilful artists on display in Darwin.
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