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The 5th National Indigenous Art Triennial is a collage of an exhibition, and a work of wonder

When the rains end, creeks and rivers run full. Suddenly, deserts bloom with all the colours of the rainbow as new life emerges. As Tony Albert, artistic director of the Fifth National Indigenous Art Triennial, says, “After the rain there are always new beginnings.”

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Hope, heart and home leads at the National Indigenous Art Triennial: ‘We are going through a stage of enlightenment’

Curated by Tony Albert, After the Rain at the National Gallery of Australia explores cultural and familial legacies two years on from the referendum

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'All eyes on us': triennial spotlights Indigenous art

Ten immersive, large-scale artworks are featured in the fifth iteration of the Indigenous Art Triennial, focused on themes of renewal, resistance and rebirth.

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A decade of Tarnanthi: how a festival of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art creates a new national art history

The Tarnanthi Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art began in 2015. The title of the exhibition celebrating Tarnanthi a decade on, Too Deadly, underscores the level of excellence Tarnanthi has achieved in terms of the sheer number of artists involved, new work commissioned and its reach to…

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‘A young fella like me doesn’t want to make traditional paintings’: how Indigenous art swept the UK

From distinctive dot paintings to ‘unflattering’ portraits of billionaires, via bloodstained reindeer skulls piled up outside parliament, the diverse work of Indigenous artists is thrilling the art world

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‘When I came out of prison, I couldn’t wait to create’: leading artists and inmates team up to break the prison cycle

Blak In-Justice, staged by the Torch and the Heide Museum of Modern Art, features works by Judy Watson, Vernon Ah Kee and Destiny Deacon

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Plants collected on Cook voyage in new online archive

An online archive of more than one million plants has been created, including specimens collected by Joseph Banks on Captain Cook's 1770 Pacific voyage.

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‘Impossible task’: NGV to take largest international exhibition of Indigenous art to US

The show, which will tour for three years across North America beginning in 2025, will feature the gallery’s ‘absolute masterpieces’ – including works by Emily Kam Kngwarray and Albert Namatjira

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It's good to be King: Vincent Namatjira opens new show

Gina Rinehart can rest easy - the new paintings by artist Vincent Namatjira are self-portraits based on his cheeky character King Dingo.

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Inside The Ghan train across Australia, new carriage interiors elevate a classic trip

The Ghan’s new carriage interiors designed by Woods Bagot reimagine modern rail travel for this epic trip between Darwin and Adelaide

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Can you control your image? Gina Rinehart, King Charles and ‘moral portraits’

“She’s no oil painting”.

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Swimming boss defends athletes lobbying national gallery to take down Gina Rinehart portraits

Swimming Queensland chief Kevin Hasemann says ‘I’ve never been to a gallery’ and furore has ‘evolved into something I could never have imagined’

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Vincent Namatjira says ‘people don’t have to like my paintings’ after Gina Rinehart demands portrait be removed

The billionaire wants a painting of her removed from the National Gallery of Australia but the Archibald-winning artist says he hopes people think about what he is trying to say

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Mining mogul demands NGA remove her portrait

The National Gallery of Australia has rebuffed demands from mining billionaire Gina Rinehart to remove a portrait of her from an exhibition.

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Vincent Namatjira’s paintbrush is his weapon. With an infectious energy and wry humour, nothing is off limits

Vincent Namatjira, a Western Arrernte artist, is Albert Namatjira’s great-grandson. His genre is portraiture, but with a twist: loaded with satire and post-colonial politics.

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Albert Namatjira watercolours on show for first time

Paintings by watercolourist Albert Namatjira that have never been seen by the public are part of an exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria.

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Namatjira paintings stolen from home, police say

Police are calling for the public's help to track down six Albert Namatjira paintings they say were taken from a home in Adelaide.

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Power and strength: Vincent Namatjira paintings on show

A major survey of the work of Vincent Namatjira is opening at the Art Gallery of South Australia.

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‘I see myself as a royal’: artist Vincent Namatjira on colonialism, satire and his great-grandfather’s legacy

The Archibald-winning portraitist and descendant of Albert Namatjira explains why he wields his paintbrush like a weapon – and always has the last laugh

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Dust, light and bugs threaten Namatjira collection

Paintings by Albert Namatjira and his famed watercolour school are being kept in a converted tool shop in the NT town where his legacy means the most.

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Alice Springs artists use their paintings for politics

Painters at one art centre in Alice Springs are turning from watercolours in the tradition of Albert Namatjira to art that's explicitly political.

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A new art world order

"The hang requires you to do the work, you're making the connections."

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Queen Elizabeth II: A legacy like no other

After inheriting the throne at just 25, Queen Elizabeth II gave a lifetime of service to the job, providing a bedrock of stability for the monarchy as the world shifted around her.

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A law firm is targeting Australia's 70-year limitation on copyright protection after the family of an acclaimed Indigenous artist took 30 years to retrieve the rights to his work — only to lose it again in 12 years.

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Aboriginal art is making waves overseas – but some major myths need busting

To help you better appreciate the wide, wonderful world of Indigenous art, we’re busting some big myths and misconceptions.

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