Badhulgaw Kuthinaw Mudh (Badu Art Centre), one of Australia’s newest Indigenous art centres, is home to an exciting group of young, emerging artists from Badu Island in the Torres Straits. The focus of the Centre is to enable the expression and renewal of Badu Island cultural practices and to preserve and promote arts, crafts and culture while providing skills and training to local Torres Strait Islanders.
While Badu Island has a history of producing internationally recognised artists such as Alick Tipoti and Dennis Nona, many of the young artists represented by the new art centre are only discovering their talents since the art centre opened.
Reflecting their strong cultural traditions, language and links to the sea, Badu artists are producing works using a range of visual and creative mediums including printmaking, etching, painting, jewellery, textiles and carving.
