Brisbane-based Indigenous art collective proppaNOW wins prestigious global prize

Members of Indigenous art collective proppaNOW (from left) Gordon Hookey, Jennifer Herd, Tony Albert, Megan Cope, Richard Bell and Vernon Ah Kee. The Brisbane-based artists have won the prestigious 2022–2024 Jane Lombard Prize for Art and Social Justice. Photograph: Rhett Hammerton/proppaNOW

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.