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Liz Hobday

Alice Springs artists use their paintings for politics

Artist Vanessa Inkamala paints on discarded street signs found around Alice Springs. (PR HANDOUT IMAGE PHOTO) (AAP)

As Alice Springs becomes a flashpoint in national politics, Indigenous artists in one of the town's best-known arts centres are letting their paintbrushes do the talking.

At the Iltja Ntjarra Many Hands Art Centre, descendants of the famed artist Albert Namatjira use his watercolour landscape style to make art that responds to issues the community faces.

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