ARTISTS celebrated in the book ‘A Special Kind Of Vision’
Arts Northern Rivers recently launched the book ‘A Special Kind Of Vision’ celebrating contemporary Aboriginal art of the Northern Rivers region, at Retrospect Galleries in Byron Bay.
A Special Kind of Vision contains life stories of prominent Indigenous artists of the Northern Rivers region of NSW in the eastern coast of Australia with large images their artwork in stunning full colour. The book resulted from the travels of Indigenous Arts Development Officer, Frances Belle Parker of Arts Northern Rivers. She toured the Northern Rivers region meeting with eighty practising Indigenous artists and recording their stories. Examples of the work of twenty six of these artists were selected for inclusion in this book to illustrate ‘A Special Kind of Vision’ that Indigenous artists bring to understanding art and life .
Byron Shire Echo, March 17 2009, p.17