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Mr

Tiriki Onus

Lecturer In Indigenous Arts And Culture
Victorian College Of The Arts
indigenous
aboriginal and torres strait islander heritage
reclamation
recovery
rematriation
reclamation of practice
revitalisation
repatriation
songman
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Mr

Tiriki Onus

 
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Fine Arts And Music
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Mr

Tiriki Onus

 

Tiriki Onus is a Yorta Yorta man and Head of the Wilin Centre for Indigenous Arts and Cultural Development, University of Melbourne. He is a successful visual artist, curator, performance artist and opera singer.

His first operatic role was in the premiere of Deborah Cheetham’s Pecan Summer in October 2010, which he reprised in 2011, and 2012 for the Melbourne and Perth runs. He received the Dame Nellie Melba Opera Trust’s Harold Blair Opera Scholarship in 2012 and 2013. In 2015 he was the inaugural Hutchinson Indigenous Fellow at the University of Melbourne.

Projects

Displaying the 3 most recent projects by Tiriki Onus.

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Connecting Culture And Childhood: Implications Of The Repatriation Of Archival Recordings For Children And Young People

2019 - 2020
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Makassan – Arnhem – Kimberley (Northern Australia): Pre-European Contact

2018 - 2019
Completed
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Reclaiming Performance Under Assimilation In Southeast Australia, 1935-75

This project aims to reframe a period of Australian history, the Assimilation era (1935-1975), to demonstrate Aboriginal and Torres Strait I..

2018 - 2021
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Project Types

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Research Grant

Scholarly Works

Displaying the 3 most recent scholarly works by Tiriki Onus.

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RUIAC Symposium, Workshop on Country, Printmaking workshop

Sally Treloyn, Tiriki Onus, Megan McPherson, Reuben Brown, Jodie Seiuli, Lauren Gower, Michael Julian, John Parsons, James Howard, Ros Atkins, Jen Tarry Smith, Samuel Murnane, Ruth Singer, Fred Gesha, Rheannan Port, N'Arweet Carolyn Briggs, Clint Bracknell, Rona Charles, John Divilli, Lloyd Nulgit, et al.

Curated Exhibition, Event or Festival  |  2019

Reclamation, revitalisation, recovery, rematriation and repatriation are terms often used by artists and researchers in contempora..

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Diplomacies of Practice: Workshop-on-Country and Symposium and Sharing of Indigenous Cultural Practice

Sally Treloyn, Tiriki Onus, Reuben Brown, Jodie Seiuli, Megan McPherson, Lou Bennett, James Howard, Nicole Paul, Mick Harding, David Manmurulu, Jenny Manmurulu, Rupert Manmurulu, Jamie Milpurr, Patrick Churnside, Folau Umbagai, John Divilli, Pete O'Connor, Rona Charles, Lloyd Nulgit, Donna Blackall

Curated Exhibition, Event or Festival  |  2018

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Live Video Performance for Stories of a Songman by Richard Frankland at the Melbourne Recital Centre

R Frankland, T Onus, JW Parsons, P Fletcher

Recorded or Rendered Work - Performance  |  2016

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Keyword Analysis

Arts and Leisure
Performing Arts and Creative Writing
Heritage

News

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The Tjanpi Desert Weavers show us that traditional craft is art

Tiriki Onus

August 12, 2014

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Credentials

Positions

Lecturer In Indigenous Arts And Culture

Victorian College Of The Arts

Education

BACHELOR OF MUSIC PERFORMANCE

University of Melbourne