Youth category finalist, “Papua New Guinea on the Moon”,
Pencil and Texta on Paper, by Danroy Davis Mova, 13
“Submissions depicted everything from visions of trains connecting the country and futuristic cities, to an astronaut planting a PNG flag on the moon”
and Art Gallery in Port Moresby on October 4, attended by many of the finalists along with two of Timothy Akis’ now grown children, first-born daughter June and son Joseph, who flew in from Madang. Addressing the crowd, Joseph said he was only eight months old when his father died in 1984, aged just 45. “I never saw his face, I saw his drawings as a memory of his work,” he said. “When he died it was a great loss for us, out
the competition is named after the late Timothy Akis, recognised as a pioneer of contemporary art in this country for his imaginative pen and ink drawings and batiks inspired by his country’s wildlife that he developed in the
1970s while working as a translator with an anthropologist at his home in the Simbai Valley of Madang. awards ceremony and launch of the top 30 art pieces in an exhibition at the National Museum The competition culminated in an
theme of “Looking Forward – Dreams & Aspirations for the Future of PNG”. Organised by the Arts Society PNG,
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