Cicada Trading

Cicada Trading Information:
Website: http://www.cicada-trading.com
Contact: Anne Speed
Email: info@cicada-trading.com
Phone: +61 425 228 044
Address: PO Box 5409 Brisbane 4179 QLD

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Cicada Trading Pty Ltd actively supports, promotes and showcases contemporary Australian Indigenous Art. Cicada has a collection of high quality Australian Contemporary Indigenous artwork from a number of regions across Australia. The artwork it exhibits includes original acrylic canvasses, limited edition prints and wooden sculptures. Cicada sources art for collectors within and outside Australia and has a reputation for its high quality artwork and its passion for Australian Indigenous art and culture and its people.

Cicada can also assist in sourcing and selecting corporate art for offices, hotels, restaurants, hospitals or for corporate gifts. Cicada works with organisations to ensure the artwork selected or commissioned creates the right ambiance for the enjoyment of their customers, staff, visitors or patients. Cicada's artwork is also sought after as exclusive corporate gifts by corporations for their select customers.

Cicada works in partnership with a number of indigenous communities' art centres such as Haasts Bluff, Yuendumu, Papunya Tula, Balgo, Warmun, Mornington Island, Maningrida, Papulankutja Women’s Centre, Warakurna Artists Aboriginal Corporation, Maruku Arts and directly with the artists only where they have no direct association with an arts centre.

Cicada's aim is to encourage individuality and self determination and help the artists achieve international recognition. Cicada feels fortunate to be able to spend time with a number of communities on a regular basis and to have built strong relationships and friendships with them. Cicada's collection of artworks is fully authenticated and documented with appropriate translations of the storylines for a better understanding and enjoyment of each art piece. While many of these talented artists have national and international recognition, Cicada always encourage the younger and up-and-coming artists to make their own unique and expressive statements and is proud to present them to the world here.

Cicada has held a number of exhibitions over the past 4 years in Europe, the Middle East and North America. Cicada also works in collaboration with select galleries in those regions. Exhibitions for 2006 included Milan, Houston, Paris, Bahrain and Abu Dhabi and for 2007 include Abu Dhabi, Houston, Bahrain, Canterbury, Paris and Houston. Whenever possible, Cicada incorporates a short audio visual presentation on Aboriginal culture and art to provide the viewer with a better understanding of and connection with the artwork and help build cross-cultural understanding.

Buyers include private collectors, galleries and corporate customers.

Cicada's Director, Anne Speed, swapped a long career in IT and marketing and left a position as a senior IT Manager for a new life which combines her passion for travel, discovery, people and art. Through regular lengthy visits and time spent with the artists in their communities over the past 4 years, she has forged strong friendships with them, especially with the women of Utopia and their families, in the Central Desert Region of Australia. She feels very honoured to be able to present Australian Indigenous Art to the world, and excited to promote the young, new artists whose art is bold and dramatic, visually contemporary yet always incorporating ancient traditional inherited dreamtime stories.