Brisbane-based Indigenous art collective proppaNOW wins prestigious global prize

Curator at school which awards Jane Lombard Prize says the artists' work would galvanise arts and social justice communities' in New York

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Indigenous Australian art collective proppaNOW has won a prestigious prize that will take them to New York next year after the selecting jury found their practices would serve as models for political empowerment throughout the world".

But don't expect traditional Aboriginal artworks.

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