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DOCUMENTARY

ASTORY OF

MAN AND

COUNTRY

Sera Davies’

Namatjira Project

Hailed as one of Australia’s greatest
painters, Albert Namatjira nevertheless
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between art and commerce, individual
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a troubled history but also seeks to
redress it, writes Thomas Redwood.

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– then resolved to use whatever he had been given
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