Lifeline to get 20pc of artwork sales

LIFELINE PNG will receive 20 per cent of all artwork sales from an art exhibition to support their work in helping women and children, according to UPNG lecturer Philemon Yalamu.
He is a lecturer in the creative arts industry and specialises in digital artworks (PNG Fonts) and painting.
A group of visual artists will be exhibiting their artworks at the Yacht Club next week Saturday and Sunday.
“The two main objectives of the art exhibition is advocating through art and to raise funds to support women and children issues,” Yalamu said.
The group, with the theme “Retrieving the past, shaping the future through art”, will exhibit some of the varieties of contemporary to modern art practised in Papua New Guinea.
The exhibition will show different art styles ranging from painting, ink drawings, prints, interactive artworks, digital artworks (PNG Fonts), relief art (sculpture), digital art and live art demonstrations.
The artists include Larry Santana, Philemon Yalamu, Albert Joseph, Anderson Habiri, Pax Jakupa and Andrew Santana. “We believe that the Art can and had contributed to the economic development of this nation in many ways and it can be a therapy for some of PNG’s emerging economic crisis,” Yalamu said.