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Call out for Queensland’s Indigenous artists to showcase talents on national stage(s)
UMI Arts has issued a call out to members and Indigenous artists to participate and showcase works in its 2023 tour of Australia’s three leading art fairs.
While building upon existing programing and establishing new events, UMI Arts will elevate its already strong focus on promoting member artists in 2023 by providing representation at Sydney’s National Indigenous Art Fair (NIAF), 1-2 July 2023; Cairns Indigenous Art Fair (CIAF), 13-16 July 2023 and Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair (DAAF), 11- 13 August 2023.
UMI Arts’ Exhibition and Gallery Officer Robyne Pacey said it was the second year running that the Indigenous led, not for profit organisation had participated in Australia’s three consecutive art fairs.
She said they were looking for art and craft products in any medium that represent the First Nations people, culture, and stories of FNQ from both emerging and established artists.
“With its beautiful setting in Gadigal Country at Sydney’s heritage Rocks precinct, NIAF is the perfect start to a whirlwind tour at the beginning of July before returning to Cairns, Gimuy Country, to fly the flag at CIAF, and then wrapping up with DAAF where UMI Arts will join more than 70 art centres from around Australia in Larrakia Country,” she said.
“We are keen to welcome our members and new members to participate and showcase their art and crafts in all mediums for what is intended to be a diverse audience of festival goers
What is UMI Arts looking for?
Open to all mediums, but particularly paper works, works on canvas, artefacts, fabric and small gift, homewares, and jewellery. For interstate fairs (NIAF and DAAF) there is a focus on lightweight portable items to reduce freight costs at a range of price points, preferably in the low (<$250) to medium (<$750) range.
EOIs are now available to download for all art fairs: NIAF in Sydney, CIAF in Cairns and DAAF in Darwin.
The UMI EOI form is here: https://umiarts. com.au/exhibitions/ For more, visit www.umiarts.com.au from collectors and curators to visitors from throughout Australia and overseas.
“This is a fabulous opportunity for emerging and established artists who want to build their profile and business to a much larger audience that due to vast distances and expense, is logistically difficult to achieve.”
