Record ID:
58777748 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
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Birth:
  • 1965
  • Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Death:
  • place of death
Associated with:
  • Yarrawonga, Victoria, Australia
Occupations:
  • textile artist, etcher, printmaker, painter, sculptor
Notes:
  • Dr. Treahna Hamm was born in 1965 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. She is a Yorta Yorta woman, living and working in Yarrawonga, Victoria. Dr Hamm is a possum skin cloak maker, etcher, printmaker, painter and sculptor. Her work discusses issues of identity, assimiliation and connection to land and community. In 1996 she was awarded first prize in the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Heritage Art Award. She has contributed to numerous exhibitions around Australia and her work is found in collections world wide.
  • Provenance file State Library of Victoria: biographical information provided by artist.
  • WWW Design & Art Australia online, 21/07/2014 http://www.daao.org.au/bio/treahna-hamm
  • Dhungula Woka (Riverland breastplate), 2014
Local system number:
  • (VSL)1595525
  • (AU-CaAIA)XX48566
Cataloguing source:
  • VSL eng rda VSL
Authentication code:
  • anuc