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Ryan Presley, an Alice Springs artist, just stunned the art world by winning top honors at the NATSIAAs with his $100K prize-winning oil painting “Our lifestyle of tranquillity undisturbed”—a bold, Orwellian-inspired piece featuring an Indigenous man, his dog, and a rifle. After two decades of dedication, this win is a career-defining moment for Presley, hailed by judges as “next-level amazing” for its technical mastery. His work weaves classic styles with urgent contemporary themes like bushfires and youth struggles in remote Australia. Meanwhile, Jenna Mayilema Lee claimed another award with her defiant dilly bags made from British Museum maps, reclaiming colonial materials as cultural resistance. The exhibition, now showing in Darwin, celebrates Indigenous Australian art’s power to spark vital conversations.

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