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Callum Godde

Trash to treasure: road signs artwork wins top gong

Gaypalani Wanambi has won Australia's most prestigious Aboriginal art award. (PR IMAGE PHOTO)

With a collection of discarded road signs and her late father's blessing, Gaypalani Wanambi has won Australia's most prestigious Aboriginal art award.

The Yolŋu artist, from Yirrkala in the Northern Territory's northeast Arnhem Land, earned the $100,000 Telstra Art Award for her towering etched metal work titled Burwu, blossom 2025.

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