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Vincent Namatjira, a Western Arrernte artist, is Albert Namatjira’s great-grandson. His genre is portraiture, but with a twist: loaded with satire and post-colonial politics.

A major survey of the work of Vincent Namatjira is opening at the Art Gallery of South Australia.

"The hang requires you to do the work, you're making the connections."

On cold nights in July, Adelaide audiences are flocking to an extraordinary festival of light and sound.

In 2020, the year Vincent Namatjira was awarded the Archibald for his double portrait with Adam Goodes, I was also impressed by the painting hanging next to it, Blak Douglas’ (aka Adam Hill) Writing in the Sand. It was both passionately political and visually very clever, incorporating the speech that…