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TROPIC • ARTS

Arty celebration

BOOK REVIEW
Our guest reviewer of this
beautiful book by local artist
Daryl Dickson is by far one of
her biggest fans: eight-year-old
Milestone year for UMI Arts Percy King.
Celebrating Australia’s Magnificent
UMI Arts is celebrating the end of a Wildlife: The Art of Daryl Dickson
magnificent year. The organisation –
dedicated to providing pathways to success Let me tell you a little bit about Daryl
for aspiring Indigenous artists – recently Dickson. She has a studio on top of her
marked its 15th birthday milestone, house for painting and drawing which
as well as acquired a vehicle to reach overlooks the Kirrama Range in the
outer communities. “The fortitude of our Wet Tropics World Heritage area west
organisation is testament to the way in of Cardwell. I smiled when I found
which we have overcome the difficulties out Daryl and her husband turned
of this year’s pandemic,” said Executive their home into a sanctuary for one of
Officer Peter Lenoy. UMI Arts’ latest Australia’s most endangered animal
exhibition Through Our Eyes once again species the Mahogany Glider.
showcased the immense talent of its I find Daryl Dickson inspiring because Daryl’s paintings are very realistic and
members, as photographers Nerelle Nicol of her beautiful art work and progress almost like photographs.
and Gertrude Davis displayed their palpable in conservation she’s made. I highly recommend this book for
and personal connection to Country. My top five favourite animals from lovers of our local wildlife.
this book are the black-necked
MORE: umiarts.com.au stork, bush stone-curlew, Australian MORE: Search online for “Daryl
pelican, double-eyed fig parrot and the Dickson Magnificent Wildlife”
brahminy kite.

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