Steaphan Paton is a Victorian Indigenous artist based in Melbourne. A member of the Gunai nation, he grew up in Gippsland. Paton was highly commended for the Lin Onus Award at the 2007 Victorian Indigenous Art Awards for the drawing Dyillah (2007) and was a recent finalist in the 2012 awards. Paton has received a number of grants including a City of Melbourne Laneways Commission for his project 'Urban Doolagahl'. His upcoming exhibition at the Melbourne Museum, called 'Booruns Canoe', is a collaboration telling of intergenerational knowledge through the art of canoe making. Steaphan's work is informed by his interest in archaeology and in preserving knowledge about Indigenous Australian history, traditions and stories.
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