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Arts created in Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinean art
has a long rich diverse tradition. In particular, it is world-famous for carved wooden sculpture: masks, canoes and story-boards. Papua New Guinea also has a wide variety of clay, stone, bone, animal and natural die art. Many of the best collections of these are held in overseas museums.
Some of the artists regarded as being in the first wave of contemporary art in Papua New Guinea are:
Mathias Kauage
OBE
(born 1944),
Timothy Akis
,
Jakupa Ako
and
Joe Nalo
, all from the tough urban area of
Port Moresby
. Kauage won Australia's
Blake Prize for Religious Art
, four of his works are in the
Gallery of Modern Art
in
Glasgow
, and he had a solo show in 2005 at the
Horniman Museum
, "Kauage's Visions: Art from Papua New Guinea". Other noted Papua New Guinean visual artists include
Larry Santana
,
Martin Morububuna
and
Heso Kiwi
.
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The works shown below, in composite images, were done while the artists were visiting California but are traditional in content and medium.
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The Noumea Biennale (an art fair in
New Caledonia
) includes works from Papua New Guinea.
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