A chance encounter with history became the catalyst for a new artistic installation in the National Gallery of Australia celebrating the legacy of the pioneering watercolourist.

SYDNEY -- A pair of "ghost gum" trees in Australia's outback made famous in watercolors by Aboriginal artist Albert Namatjira have been destroyed in a suspected arson attack, shortly before they were ...

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Indigenous artist Vincent Namatjira won Australia's most prestigious art prize on Friday, the first time an Aboriginal painter won the portraiture competition since its inception ...

Cubillo, senior curator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art at the National Gallery­ of Australia, read the story at 6am. Despite the early hour, she says, “I shared it [immediately] with the ...

Australia's most prestigious award for portraiture has been won by an Aboriginal artist for the first time in its 99-year history. Vincent Namatjira, 37, claimed the annual Archibald Prize for a ...

Principal Fellow (Hon), Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne. Editor in Chief, Design and Art of Australia Online, The University of Melbourne The 2020 Archibald, Wynne and Sulman ...

Eighty years ago celebrated Indigenous artist Albert Namatjira used the proceeds from his evocative watercolours to build a house for his family in Australia’s central desert. Namatjira spent almost a ...

A view of Archibald Prize 2020 winner Vincent Namatjira's "Stand strong for who you are" acrylic on linen, 152 x 198 cm, is seen in this handout photo released to ...