Art From the Heart

Clip 2: Selling Aboriginal art

1 min 46 sec

Taken from the documentary Art From the Heart (1998)

Original title classification not known – this clip chosen to be G

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Please be aware that this clip may contain the names, images and voices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who may now be deceased.

Curator’s clip description

The clip shows Aboriginal artists in Port Keats, Northern Territory, acting as their own agents to sell their art direct to customers. Greg Willard, manager of the Port Keats Art Centre says that some of the work being painted for sale is more obvious in its content, moving away from the abstract, but that it is still coming from the artists themselves.

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