Amani Tia

Amani Tia’s distinctive style is impacted by his immediate environment. With a natural aptitude for drawing, Tia enjoyed early success in the appropriation of iconic paintings by some of the great masters and more recently paying homage to artists and musicians from the 1950’s through to the 1970’s. Tia has worked as a studio artist at Arts Project Australia since 2013 and was selected for the Victorian Indigenous Art Awards 2014, Art Gallery of Ballarat, Victoria, and the Belle Arti, Chapman and Bailey Gallery, Melbourne (2013) and has exhibited at Yarra Gallery, Federation Square, Melbourne (2014). In 2017 Tia undertook the Bundoora Nebula Residency at Bundoora Homestead Art Centre.