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Reappointment to Australia Council’s Visual Arts Board

The Minister for the Arts and Sport, Senator Rod Kemp, today announced the reappointment of Ms Karen Mills to the Visual Arts Board of the Australia Council for the Arts for a one-year term.

“A visual artist and arts administrator, Ms Mills has been a valuable member of the Visual Arts Board so I am very pleased she has agreed to stay on,” said Senator Kemp.

Ms Mills is a fine arts graduate from the Northern Territory University, and her work has twice been selected as a finalist in the 15 th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, and was included in 2002 in the Five Darwin Painters exhibition at the Northern Territory Centre for Contemporary Art. She has also exhibited her work nationally and internationally.

In 2004 Ms Mills was one of eight Indigenous artists from Australia who attended the Communion and Other Conversations residency at the prestigious Banff Centre in Alberta, Canada. She has also held the Arts NT Inaugural Wenten Rubuntja Indigenous Artist Fellowship.

The Australia Council is the Australian Government’s principal arts funding and advisory body. It encourages the creativity and development of Australian artists and aims to increase access by all Australians to arts and cultural activities.

The Visual Arts Board supports the creation, interpretation and presentation of contemporary Australian visual arts and craft. It values the traditions and capacity for innovation that exist in Australia’s culturally diverse society.

CANBERRA
19 October 2006
Media contact: Michael Christo, Minister’s Office 03 9650 7274 or 0409 040276