Scotland Island Community Hall, Scotland Island NSW
$14.00 AUD Admission + $2.00 booking fee + $4.00 fundraiser fee = $20.00
The Scotland Island Kindy brings you this special fundraiser screening of Namatjira Project on Saturday the 28th of October at 7:30pm at Scotland Island Community Hall, NSW!
A portion of every ticket sold will be fundraising for Scotland Island Kindy!
Keep up to date on our Facebook Event Page!
Albert Namatjira was one of those rare artists who actually changed the course of history. The founder of the Indigenous art movement, he became an international icon and was the first Indigenous person to be granted Australian citizenship. But Namatjira was never fully accepted by white Australia, and after being wrongfully imprisoned in 1959, he soon died, despondent and broken. Then, in 1983, the Australian Government sold the rights to his work to an art dealer – despite Namatjira having left his art to his wife and children.
Now, almost 60 years after Namatjira’s death, his family want it back. Working with the Namatjira family, filmmaker Sera Davies takes us on a journey from the sun-blasted deserts of their Aranda homeland to the lavish opulence of Buckingham Palace, as they fight to have Namatjira’s legacy returned to its rightful home. A captivating story of Australian race relations lensed through the bitterly contested history of one of our most venerated figures, Namatjira Project is a powerful, important addition to the canon of modern Indigenous culture.
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