A major new arts fellowship will build on booming interest in Australian Indigenous art in Europe and North America, as leading museums and Hollywood collectors spur the growing international market.

Tina Baum, a member of the Gulumirrgin, Larrakia, Wardaman and Karajarri peoples, will travel to the Netherlands later this year to be immersed in the largest collection of Indigenous culture outside Australia. With more than 400,000 works, its location is an unlikely one: the Wereldmuseum in the university city of Leiden, near The Hague.