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Indepth Arts News:
"31st Annual Research Conference Featured Artist Wayne Quilliam"
2010-03-08 until 2010-03-10
University of Guam
Mangilao, ,
GU Guam
Visions Beyond the Horizon : Transformation in the Pacific
was the theme for this years' 31st Annual Research Conference on March 8th and 9th, 2010. Mr. Wayne Quilliam attended the 31st Annual College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences Research Conference as the
plenary speaker and presenter on Monday, March 8, 2010. The topic of his presentation on Monday night touched upon that historic moment in 2008 and is entitled APOLOGY. At the closing ceremonies Quilliam also presented a talk about his work where he shared the pride, fame, glory and challenges of the work that he has done throughout
the years. Wayne Quilliam has been a Premiere Portfolio Artist at absolutearts.com since 2001.
View more of Wayne Quilliam's work in his Portfolio at absolutearts.com absolutearts.com/waynequilliam.
For those who have been keeping with international news, many may recall the timely apology made by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to the Australia Aboriginal community that stretched for unjust decades in the continent of
Australia. That apology that rang around the world
and as it did one of Australia's best Aboriginal photographers was there to capture the historic moment. The photographs he took captured the diversity of events that took place starting with the official apology at Parliament House and how his work has subsequently been featured in galleries throughout Europe, Mexico, USA, China, Russia and Australia. The majority of the images included in the exhibition were a part of a winning entry for the 2008 Human Rights Award for Print Media. Last year, he was
awarded Australia's most coveted and prized distinction as the 2009 Indigenous Artist of the Year.
Quilliam presented his work at the conference through digital technology as most of his work are on huge panels that will take a ship to bring them over at tremendous cost and distance.
Mr Peter R Onedera from the CLASS Research Conference Committee comments, "I felt in my heart that this is a timely moment to feature what one country has done to officially apologize for its actions to its own people. Historically, this has never been done by any country at any time in the past nor the present. I know that we, on Guam, thirst for this possibility from the world powers that have colonized us and subjected us to 'man's inhumanity to man', in resonance of the atrocities and dark days of World War II."
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