Darryl Pfitzner Milika (1950) is a famous Indigenous artist who has been involve in many significant exhibition as well as art program such as Look At Us Now Tandanya Inaugural Exhibition (1989), 3SPACE: – 21st C. Indigenous Explorers National touring Exhibition (2000-2002) or Art and Heart: The art of Darryl Pfitzner Milika - A retrospective: 30 years on(2009). In addition, he also hold the position of Chairperson at Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute in 2002. As working with Indigenous art in over 25 years, Milika has many experience in using different mediums as well as technique skills. “He has been the creator, the designer and principal artist or "special guest" contributing artist for 3 of Adelaide's most outstanding public sculptural works”(Aboriginal Art Director News 2012). According to Art Logic (2011), he “explored those demarcation zones that are alive with human sensitivities, potentials and possibilities” in every his art works. Moreover, throughout all of his work, he also want to demonstrates that there are absolutely nothing that can “assimilated or appropriated, allocated or intimidated” his physical as well as his spiritual being as an Aboriginality.
Darryl Pfitzner Milika, Under the Duco, Beneath the Veneer, 1998, 500w x 300h, Carved timber and found objects - Courtesy of National Motor Museum
Sources:
Art logic 2011, Darryl Pfitzner Milika, viewed 24 August 2012,<http://www.artlogic.com.au/artist/darryl-pfitzner-milika?bio=show>
Aboriginal Art Director News 2012, Art & Heart: the art of Darryl Pfitzner Milika – a retrospective: 30 years on, viewed 24 August 2012,<http://news.aboriginalartdirectory.com/2009/06/art-heart-the-art-of-darryl-pfitzner-milika-a-retrospective-30-years-on.php>
Image sources:
http://news.aboriginalartdirectory.com/2009/06/art-heart-the-art-of-darryl-pfitzner-milika-a-retrospective-30-years-on.php
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