From a Darwin backroom to centre stage in Melbourne
Elizabeth Fortescue
The Anglican Diocese of the Northern Territory could be $120,000 richer when it sells a large painting given to it almost 30 years ago by acclaimed Indigenous artist Ginger Riley Munduwalawala.
The sale of the work, Christmas at Old Roper River Mission, 1995-96, was described as “strange” by Beverly Knight, executor of Riley’s estate and founding director of Melbourne’s well-known Alcaston Gallery where the artist exhibited.
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