Ceferino Garcia Sabatino b. 1975 Torres Strait, QLD

  • Artist (Sculptor), (Printmaker), (Painter)
Ceferino Garcia Sabatino is a painter, sculptor and lino cut printer from Hammond Island in the Torres Strait. He was born in 1975 and has studied for his Diploma in Art at the Tropical North TAFE campus in Cairns, Queensland.
Talk | Version history | Updated Oct. 19, 2011 | Created Jan. 1, 2007
Name
Ceferino Garcia Sabatino
Birth date
1975
Birth place
Torres Strait, QLD
Gender
Male
Roles
  • Artist (Sculptor)
  • Artist (Printmaker)
  • Artist (Painter)
Active Period
  • 1998-
Languages
  • English
Training
  • Diploma in Art, Tropical North TAFE, Cairns, QLD
Is Indigenous
Yes
Initial Record Data Source
  • Storylines Project, COFA, UNSW

Ceferino Garcia Sabatino from Hammond Island in the Torres Strait was born in 1975 and has studied for his Diploma in Art at the Tropical North TAFE campus in Cairns, Queensland. He is a painter, sculptor and lino cut printer and his work has featured in the acclaimed “Ilan Pasin” touring exhibition curated by Brian Robinson for the Cairns Regional Gallery and also in the 2001 Brisbane exhibition “Gatherings, Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art from Queensland, Australia”. His artist statement in the “Gatherings” catalogue states, “I paint because I love the sea and I love showing people what is in the beautiful ocean”.

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Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
Comming of the Missionaries, St Joseph Church, Hammond Island
Date
2001
Fish
Date
1998
Gatherings
2001
Exhibition ()
Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre, Brisbane, QLD
ILAN PASIN: Torres Strait Art
2000
Exhibition (exhibited at)
Cairns Regional Gallery, Cairns, QLD
Citations:
  • Demozay, Marion, (2001), Gatherings, Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art from Queensland, Australia, (Place: Keeaira Press, Southport, QLD)