Australian Delegation to the Festival of Pacific Arts 2016

The delegation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists selected to represent Australia at the 12th Festival of Pacific Arts in Guam in 2016 are;

• Artists of Ampilatwatja
• Bardi Dancers
• Bianca Beetson
• Buku-Larrnggay mulka
• Delvene Cockatoo-Collins
• Digi Youth Arts
• Gina Williams
• Injalak Arts
• Jimblah
• Mau Power
• Naygayiw Gigi Indigenous Corporation
• Ngardang Girri Kalat Mimini (Mother, Aunty, Sister, Woman)
• SharingStories Foundation
• Wayne Quilliam

The delegates showcased a broad range of traditional and contemporary artistic and cultural expressions including dance, music, weaving and net making, photography, literature, storytelling, language, film, theatre, ceramics and lino-printing, painting, pearl shell carving, songwriting, bush tucker and bush medicine, traditional games, fishing and hunting, wood carving, canoe making, feather craft plus many other cultural expressions.

Australia's delegation to the Festival of Pacific Arts was supported by Torres Strait Regional Authority, Creative Victoria, Arts NT and the Western Australia Department of Culture and the Arts. The delegation was also supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland's Backing Indigenous Arts initiative.