Vincent Namatjira, The Royal Tour

The Royal Tour

Vincent Namatjira

Publisher
Perimeter Editions
Year
2020
ISBN
978-0-6486801-8-5
Specifications
Saddle stitched softcover
32 x 24 cm
48 pages

Made while in lockdown on the APY Lands in remote Central Australia during the COVID-19 pandemic, Namatjira's debut artist book is as intimate as it is interventionist. Painting directly onto the pages of commemorative royal photo-books found at op-shops in Alice Springs, Namatjira – whose great-grandfather Albert Namatjira won the Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Medal in 1953 – places himself front-and-centre amidst the pageantry of historical royal occasions. Wranglings with race, politics and empire coalesce with humour, humility and personal history; as Namatjira has said, he uses a mischievous self-portrait and cheeky humour as a way of putting everyone on the same level.

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