A Story of Man and Country: Sera Davies' 'Namatjira Project'

Renowned as one of Australia's greatest painters, Albert Namatjira was nevertheless caught in the crossfires between art and commerce, individual achievement and communalist welfare, and the budding Australian nation and its entrenched ill-treatment of its Aboriginal population. These and more are chronicled in Namatjira Project, a documentary that not only recounts a troubled history but also seeks to redress it, writes Thomas Redwood.

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Indigenous, biography, Arrernte, Ntaria, Hermannsburg, Big hART, Rubina Namatjira, Trevor Jamieson, dramatisation, colonisation.