‘To survive you had to be a smuggler’: How James Nguyen turned seeds into art

‘To survive you had to be a smuggler’: How James Nguyen turned seeds into art

Article by Nick Miller

NAS alumnus James Nguyen has won the biennial Nillumbik Prize for Contemporary Art 2021 announced last week at Montsalvat.  Nguyen, 38, is the first digital artist to be awarded the $20,000 Prize.

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