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Tagged: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists

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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art and Artists
This collection illustrates the many and varied ways that Australia's First Peoples express themselves through art. The collection also shows how Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander peoples have...
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Albert Namatjira: His Life and Art
Johnny Milner looks at influential Arrernte artist, Albert Namatjira and how he used his art as a vehicle for political reform.
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Photographer Mervyn Bishop to be celebrated by new Canberra exhibition
The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA) will celebrate Mervyn Bishop, one of Australia's most prolific and influential photographers, with a new exhibition opening in Canberra on 5...
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Tracey Moffatt
Filmmaker and photographer Tracey Moffatt is one of Australia's most nationally and internationally successful artists, having held around 100 solo exhibitions of her work in Europe, the United...
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Albert Namatjira
Northern Territory Art Gallery Curator Franchesca Cubillo talks about the life of acclaimed Arrente artist Albert Namatjira (1902–59) and his citizenship granted in 1957. This clip comes from a 2007...
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Art + Soul: Dreams and Nightmares – Emily Kame Kngwarreye
Emily Kame Kngwarreye (approximately 1910–1996) was an Anmatyerre artist and elder. She is one of Australia's most important contemporary artists. She began painting when she was 79 years old having...
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Cheeky Dog
Dion Beasley is an Indigenous teenager who is deaf and has muscular dystrophy. He lives with his family in Tennant Creek in the Northern Territory. His teachers and carers, including Joie Boulter,...
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Artists of Ali Curung
The Arlpwe Arts Centre and Gallery is in the town of Ali Curung, 350 km north of Alice Springs. It opened in 2008 and provides a focus for the work of a diverse range of Indigenous artists. Artists...
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Barrba Wadbirra: Journey Together
For NAIDOC Week 2017 the Western Australian Police Force adorned uniforms and police cars with Aboriginal artwork.   This thought-provoking initiative originated in the Kimberley with Bunuba elder...
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The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia acknowledges Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work and live and gives respect to their Elders both past and present.

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