{"id":1129,"date":"2017-08-05T01:40:54","date_gmt":"2017-08-04T23:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/08\/05\/from-alice-springs-to-buckingham-palace-the-fight-for-albert-namatjiras-legacy\/"},"modified":"2017-08-05T01:40:54","modified_gmt":"2017-08-04T23:40:54","slug":"from-alice-springs-to-buckingham-palace-the-fight-for-albert-namatjiras-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=1129","title":{"rendered":"From Alice Springs to Buckingham Palace: the fight for Albert Namatjira&#039;s legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new feature film on the Indigenous Australian painter traces his family\u2019s quest for justice after losing the copyright to his work\u201cThis big girl\u2019s got a nice place,\u201d says artist Lenie Namatjira, looking up at Buckingham Palace. It\u2019s 2013, and she and her cousin, Kevin Namatjira, are about to meet Queen Elizabeth and present her with a set of their watercolour paintings. They are following in the footsteps of their grandfather, Albert Namatjira \u2013 one of Australia\u2019s most famous painters, and the first Indigenous man recognised by the colonial government as an Australian citizen \u2013 who did the same almost 60 years earlier. Their journey is being filmed for a documentary feature \u2013 the final element of the Namatjira Project, a sprawling, long-term social justice and cultural development project led by arts organisation Big hArt. In the space of eight years, the Namatjira Project has spawned an award-winning theatre production, internationally touring sell-out exhibitions, painting masterclasses, workshops, and the development of a charitable trust to support Namatjira\u2019s artistic legacy in his own community. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2017\/aug\/05\/from-alice-springs-to-buckingham-palace-the-fight-for-albert-namatjiras-legacy\" target=\"_blank\">From Alice Springs to Buckingham Palace: the fight for Albert Namatjira&#039;s legacy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new feature film on the Indigenous Australian painter traces his family\u2019s quest for justice after losing the copyright to his work\u201cThis big girl\u2019s got a nice place,\u201d says artist Lenie Namatjira, looking up at Buckingham Palace. It\u2019s 2013, and she and her cousin, Kevin Namatjira, are about to meet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}