Aboriginal Collective proppaNOW Wins Jane Lombard Prize for Art and Social Justice
The Vera Listing Middle for Art and Politics has introduced Australian Aboriginal artist collective proppaNOW as the receiver of the 2022–24 Jane Lombard Prize for Artwork and Social Justice. The Meanjin/Brisbane–based collective was preferred for the honor, which is attended by a $25,000 money prize, for its 2021 exhibition “OCCURRENT AFFAIR,” at the College of Queensland Artwork Museum, showcasing new and modern functions by its members and addressing “current sociopolitical, financial and environmental troubles when celebrating the power, resilience and continuity of Aboriginal lifestyle,” in accordance to a curatorial statement.
Voting unanimously in their favor was an award jury chaired by Simone Leigh, who gained the Golden Lion at this year’s Venice Biennale, and additionally comprising Carin Kuoni, Cuauhtémoc Medina, Wanda Nanibush, and Rasha Salti. In a joint assertion, the jury associates praised proppaNOW for its attempts in pushing back in opposition to “the invisibility of urban Aboriginal up to date artwork,” noting that it has “broken with anticipations of what is right (‘proppa’) in Aboriginal artwork developed a new sovereign room for 1st Nations artists internationally exterior colonial stereotypes, wishes for authenticity, and capitalist capitulations and opened new political imaginaries.”
The Jane Lombard Prize, which honors exceptional achievements in art and politics and acknowledges artworks that progress social justice, took as its theme this 12 months “Correction.” proppaNOW, which was set up in 2003 to provide attention to city Aboriginal artists and to beat the common anticipations put on this kind of artists by colonizers, was just one of five finalists for the prize, alongside Colectivo Cherani for Cherán Cultural Middle Khalil Rabah for The Palestinian Museum of Organic Heritage and Humankind KUNCI Research Forum & Collective for School of Inappropriate Education and learning and The Africa Cluster of the A different Roadmap University. The collective’s job will be exhibited at New York’s Vera Checklist Center future tumble.
