Indigenous Musician Receives $45,000 Grant

Musician and writer Richard Frankland has received a $45,000 fellowship as actor and artist David Gulpilil is 2013's recipient of the illustrious $50,000 Red Ochre Award.

The Australia Council-funded award is the highest peer-assessed award for an Indigenous artist and has previously been won by Jimmy Little (2003) and Archie Roach (2011). As well as today's Red Ochre announcement, South Australian photographer Rhonda Duck has received the $20,000 Dreaming Award with fellowships for $45,000 over two years awarded to Frankland and to visual artist Jennifer Kemarre Martiniello.

Lee-Ann Buckskin, Chair of the Australia Council's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Arts Board, said today, “These awards and fellowships are a significant recognition of the unique and important work of each of the recipients.

“The Red Ochre Award for David Gulpilil is wonderful acknowledgement from his peers of David's continual efforts to bring the experiences and wishes of his people to national and international attention. He is unquestionably one of the most respected Australian actors on the international film stage, and a major contributor to the voice of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders.”