INDIGENOUS Australian leader Mick Dodson is the subject of fellow indigenous Australian artist, Jandamarra Cadd for his Archibald Prize entry. Jandamarra is a Sunshine Coast Indigenous artist and art teacher – his origins are with the Yorta Yorta people in Victoria. With an art career spanning 21 years, he graduated from Deakin University in 2004 with a Fine Arts degree. He has received numerous awards through exhibitions including “People’s Choice” at both the Redcliffe Regional Gallery Aboriginal Exhibition in 2002 and the 2008 Wondai Art Gallery Exhibition.
In 2007 he won the National Indigenous Employees Art Award and his winning artwork was used for multiple government publications. Jandamarra has exhibited at the National Gallery of Australia in 2007 and locally he has artwork at The Art Bank in Eumundi and on Hastings Street in Noosa Heads.
Jandamarra’s completed portrait “Working Progress” depicts Prof Dodson as a man who lives and works in the present developed world, but who hasn’t forgotten his heritage and constantly advocates for Human Rights of Indigenous Australians. This is his first tilt at the prestigious Archibald Prize.
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