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Renae Saxby
Vox pops
This is Cindy Rostron. Her father Victor Rostron's art is on the roof, and we're out around Bulman, in Central Arnhem Land.
Person and Place
General content
The connection between land and identity holds great significance in Australia. While for First Nations people, person and place are intertwined both culturally and spiritually, forming an intrinsic union between Country and self, stories of colonisation and migration are also deeply bound to this nation.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Activists
Google Arts and Culture
Learning resources
Explore our complex history and those who have been living in Australia, connecting with the land and telling their stories for 60,000 years. For year 5 – 8 students.
Nell
Artists and Collectives
Nell is a multidisciplinary artist based on Gadigal land in the Eora Nation, Sydney. Her work fuses mythological, spiritual and popular cultural iconography.
Who we are and what we do
Disability Inclusion Action Plan 2023–25
The National Portrait Gallery is an award-winning building situated within Canberra’s Parliamentary Triangle, the symbolic centre of Australia’s capital city on Ngunnawal and Ngambri land.
Bern Emmerichs
Contributing artists
Born: 1961, Melbourne
Works: Melbourne
Resilience
Indigenous leadership
General content
Galarrwuy Yunupingu, Neville Bonner, Lowitja O'Donoghue, Mandawuy Yunupingu and Adam Goodes
Bringing down a kingdom
Lust
The king and the showgirl
Jane’s conviction
Devotion
Stand by your man
stArts with D Performance Ensemble
Artists and Collectives
Based in Mparntwe/Alice Springs and the Central Desert Region, stArts with D disability-led performance ensemble collaborates, creates, and presents original works celebrating identity, place and belonging.
Latai Taumoepeau
Artists and Collectives
Latai Taumoepeau, based on Gadigal Country, makes live-art-work drawing her faivā (temporal practice) from her homelands, the Island Kingdom of Tonga, centres Tongan philosophies to make visible the impact of climate crisis in the Pacific.
A photographer’s glamorous friends
Nearest & Dearest
Community, arts, activism
Tim Fairfax, 2018
by Russell Shakespeare
General content
Commissioned with funds provided by The Calvert-Jones Foundation 2018
Fiona McMonagle
Contributing artists
Born: 1977, Letterkenny, Ireland
Works: Melbourne
Provocative talks on Saturdays in September
29 August 2016
Archived media releases 2016
Join The Saturday Paper’s chief political correspondent, Karen Middleton, for A Month of Saturdays – afternoon conversations bringing current affairs experts to the Gallery for engaging, real-time discussions about the topics that matter.
Top of the pops to golden guitars
General content
The Seekers, John Farnham and Lee Kernaghan