Post by Owen on Aug 5, 2021 12:59:20 GMT
1 ~~~ From art house to outhouse: two very different Albert Namatjira collections
www.abc.net.au/news/2017-10-30/namatjira-collection-with-a-difference/9077904
www.abc.net.au/news/2017-10-30/namatjira-collection-with-a-difference/9077904
The Araluen Arts Centre in Alice Springs has the second-most significant collection of Albert Namatjira watercolour paintings in Australia, although only a handful of the works are on display at any given time to help preserve and protect the art.
But drive 130 kilometres north of Alice Springs, a collection with a difference hangs in the dry and dusty outback dining room of the Aileron roadhouse.
Araluen Arts Centre director, Mark Crees, is still buzzing from the recent changes in copyright where the family will receive royalties and recognition of Namatjira's work after fighting for legal recognition for many decades.
"The copyright will now sit with the family and therefore they gain agency over what happens with the art works and also gain any royalties that come from various reproductions of those artworks that are sold through out the world," he said.