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Liz Hobday

Mural a parade of rebellious heroes ... doing burnouts

Ryan Presley's giant mural subverts traditional religious iconography. (HANDOUT/NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY)

An Indigenous woman doing a burnout in a flying red hot rod (with the numberplate BLK PWR) will be the first image to greet visitors to the National Portrait Gallery.

It's part of a mural by Marri Ngarr artist Ryan Presley titled Paradise Won, and a subversive reference to the Old Testament story of Elijah, who was lifted to heaven in a flaming chariot.

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