Nici Cumpston

Secretary

Nici Cumpston is an assistant Curator of Indigenous Australian Art at the Art Gallery of SA. Prior to this she was a lecturer at the SA School of Art, University of South Australia. She is of Aboriginal, Afghan, English and Irish descent and draws strength from her ancestry when creating her artworks. She has been invited to participate in many prestigious awards and exhibitions including the 17^th, 18^th, 20^th, 21^st, 24^th and 25^th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards held annually in Darwin. In 2005 she was commissioned by the Commonwealth Law Court in Adelaide to create a signature artwork for their new building. In 2006 she was a finalist in the Inaugural Xstrata Coal Emerging Indigenous Art Award held at the Queensland Art Gallery. In 2007 she won the People’s Choice Award for the River Murray Art Prize. Her current series of works focuses on Lake Bonney in Barmera, the Riverland of SA and was selected for Power and Beauty Indigenous art now shown at Heide Museum of Modern Art during summer of 2007-08. Her work is held in many public and private galleries both nationally and internationally.