Biografia
A.Professor Wayne Quilliam is one of Australia’s pre-eminent Indigenous photographic artists, curators and cultural advisers working on the international scene. His award winning career includes the coveted NAIDOC Indigenous Artist of the Year, Human Rights Media Award, Walkley Award for photojournalism including being nominated as a Master of Photography by National Geographic. Nominated for PrixPictet in France and highly commended in the Bowness Art Award.
He has created and curated over 150 exhibitions throughout the world and been published in more than 1000 magazines, books and newspapers. When not at home with his wife and daughter he is found in communities throughout the country sharing his knowledge and teaching youth the expression of culture through multimedia. His work includes documenting significant Indigenous events over the past 25 years including The Apology, 1967 Referendum anniversary, Garma, Laura, Burunga, Dreaming and Yeperenye festivals and thousands of community events throughout the country.
Wayne collaborates with Indigenous groups in Cuba, Mexico, Bolivia, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Indonesia and Guam developing intercultural art and cultural exchanges.
In harmony with his photojournalistic work his diverse art practice explores the connection of Mother Earth and the Human spirituality, the work has been developed into solo exhibitions in Havana, Tokyo, Mexico City, Caracas, New York/Los Angeles and Berlin over the past 18 months.
In June/July 2015 Wayne opened 5 exhibitions in 5 weeks the first in the Palais De Nations at the Unted Nations, Geneva a week later a different show at Federation Square, Melbourne the AlexanderPlatz in Berlin followed by Kingston Art Gallery in Melbourne and projections at the Gertrude St Festival.
