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;

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.

Artists of Ampilatwatja

The Artists of Ampilatwatja community was established in 1999 near Alice Springs in the Northern Territory. The work produced...
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Bardi Dancers

The Bardi Jawi cultural dancers are a traditional dance troupe comprised of elders and future leaders of the Bardi nation. The...
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Bianca Beetson

Bianca Beetson is a Gubbi Gubbi/Kabi Kabi (Sunshine Coast) Waradjuri (NSW) woman, born in Roma, Queensland....
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Buku-Larrnggay Mulka

The Mulka Project is a digital library, museum and film production facility within Buku-Larrnggay Mulka Centre in Yirrkala, a...
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Delvene Cockatoo-Collins

Living on Minjerribah North Stradbroke Island, Delvene Cockatoo-Collins is a Nunukul, Ngugi and Goenpul woman of Quandamooka...
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Digi Youth Arts

Digi Youth Arts is a collective of contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists committed to sharing stories that...
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Gina Williams

Gina Williams is an exceptional performer who connects and captures audiences through storytelling brilliance and incandescent...
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Injalak Arts

The 200 weavers and painters who are members of Injalak Arts Centre in Gunbalanya (West Arnhem Land) are Kunwinjku, Mengerrdji...
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Jimblah

Jimblah is a producer, MC and vocalist from Adelaide, South Australia. Hailing from the Larrakia Nation in Top End Northern...
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Mau Power

Mau Power is a lyrical storyteller from Thursday Island in the Torres Straits. For many years he has been guided by two...
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Naygayiw Gigi

Dance troupe Naygayiw Gigi or 'Northern Thunder' hails from Bamaga, the northernmost town in Queensland. Naygayiw Gigi is the...
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Ngardang Girri Kalat Mimini ...

Ngardang Girri Kalat Mimini was established as a collaborative network of Indigenous women artists. They are committed to...
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SharingStories Foundation

SharingStories Foundation is committed to preserving and revitalising Indigenous languages and cultures through community...
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Wayne Quilliam

Adjunct Professor Wayne Quilliam is one of Australia's pre-eminent Indigenous photographic artists, curators and cultural...
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