Lauraine Diggins Fine Art

We are pleased to announce that artists Angelina Ngal, Cowboy Loy Pwerl and Genevieve Kemarr Loy are finalists in this year's Blake Prize. First awarded in 1951, the Blake Prize is one of the more prestigious art prizes in Australia. For 55 years it has been awarding a prize for works of art that explore the subject of religious awareness and spirituality. For more information please visit their website here. Artworks by this artist can be seen in our Aboriginal Stockroom.

Lauraine Diggins Fine Art would like to congratulate Terry Yumbulul and Trudy Raggett Kemarr for becoming finalists in this years National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards. Works from these artists as well as other exceptional indigenous artists are available from our stockroom here.

Gloria's Leaf design was selected by Hermes for their 2009 collection, and has been released internationally. The design will feature on Hermes' desireable silk scarves. This commission came about as a result of Lauraine Diggins Fine Art exhibiting Gloria's work at ArtParis 2006 where she caught the eye of artistic director of Hermes, Pierre Alexis Dumas. Gloria's works have been acquired by major public institutions and countless private collections both within Australia and internationally. She is regarded as being an intregal part of the history of painting in Utopia; an artist whose originality and diversity exemplifies the evolution, particularly of women's art, from the eastern region of Central Australia. Gloria's Bush Medicine Leaf Dreaming is perhaps her most successful stylistic development. Through the use of abstraction and repetition, she represents the bush leaves collected by women creating a design with a dynamic sense of swirling movement.