Around this time of year, Naomi Hobson would usually be gathering up her paintings and preparing for the big trip south from her home in Coen, on the Cape York Peninsula, to Cairns, 560 kilometres away, for the annual Indigenous art fair.
But this year the fair, which opens on August 14, has gone digital, a casualty, like so many other art events, of the pandemic. Hobson, an independent artist whose riverside home is also her studio, is focusing on the positives – an online presence means a potentially larger audience for her work.
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Gabriella Coslovich is an arts journalist with more than 20 years’ experience, including 15 at The Age, where she was a senior arts writer. Her book, Whiteley on Trial, on Australia’s most audacious of alleged art fraud, won a Walkley in 2018.
