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The Stranger Artist
Life at the Edge of Kimberley Painting
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This biography is suited to readers interested in Australian cultural history, Aboriginal art, and memoirs that explore cross-cultural experiences and artistic communities.
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See moreWinner of the Prime Minister's Literary Award 2021 Non-fiction category, The Stranger Artist is a true story of life, loss and friendship that cuts to the heart of one of Australia’s most celebrated art movements.
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Winner of the 2021 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Non-fiction.
Set amid the striking landscapes of the East Kimberley, The Stranger Artist is an evocative and enthralling account of a remarkable decade in Australia’s internationally acclaimed Aboriginal art movement.
At the end of the twentieth century, one-time gallerist Tony Oliver finds himself deeply immersed within a group of senior Gija artists, among them the soon-to-be-renowned painters Paddy Bedford and Freddie Timms. Their unlikely bonds lead to the formation of the groundbreaking Jirrawun Arts, which quickly becomes one of Australia’s most celebrated and controversial art collectives. As Oliver comes to share not only the artists’ many successes but their tragedies too, his own life’s trajectory will forever be altered.
Quentin Sprague’s The Stranger Artist is an extraordinary contribution to Australia’s cultural history – a sensitive yet unflinching portrait of creative work, of a life between cultures, of both darkness and light.
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ISBN: 9781743799321
Publisher: Hardie Grant Books
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 01 February 2023
Country: Australia
Imprint: Hardie Grant Books
Illustration: b&w images on chapter openers only
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 135.0mm
Height: 210.0mm
Weight: 305g
Pages: 288
About the Author
Quentin Sprague is a Geelong-based writer who has worked variously as a curator, academic, art coordinator and artist. His essays and criticism have regularly appeared in publications including The Monthly, The Australian, Art & Australia and Discipline, as well as artist monographs and exhibition catalogues. Between 2007 and 2009 he lived on the Tiwi Islands and in the East Kimberley region of Western Australia, where he worked for Aboriginal arts organisations.
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