00:00Far from their home in the AP wildlands, Vincent Namadjira and his countrymen Eric Barney and
00:14Alec Baker have set Sydney alight with the colours of Indolkana.
00:19These two have come together to do a collaboration work of dot painting called country painting,
00:26the paintings of water holes we call Chukwala and the mountains we call Puli, and the trees
00:36we call Burnu.
00:37Eric Barney usually lets his work do the talking, but shares how art helps him connect to country
00:44and to elder Alec Baker.
00:46I do the painting, this is me, I make water hole and all the trees, make colour too.
00:56I paint fast, really fast, not get tight, not get light, only really fast.
01:06Vincent Namadjira steeped in a long art tradition that includes his famous great grandfather
01:11Albert Namadjira is keen to share the limelight.
01:15The paintings that you see on this wall here, the beautiful dot paintings, the dots are
01:20coming from Barney and Alec together and with these two we would like to just say have
01:28a show in Sydney in this wonderful gallery to represent these two wonderful artists to
01:34be shown around the world.
01:36Me and Alec helping this old man, that's why I help him, can't move him, he's a little
01:43car person, and every day he come for painting, and I sit and wait for him to do painting,
01:51and I do it, it's only two big ones.
01:56Known for sparking strong reactions to his works, Vincent doesn't retreat from the recent
02:02controversy surrounding his portrait series featuring Australia's richest woman.
02:07The portrait about Gina Reinhardt, I just painted her because she's just one of the
02:13richest people in Australia, that's the reason why I painted her to be honest, yeah.
02:17This time Vincent's putting himself in the picture.
02:21With my particular work I'm painting for this exhibition here, the King Dingo, to me the
02:26Dingo represents strength, resilience, and proud, and he's courageous, and also he's
02:34also wild, and he's a leader. I'm looking at a reflection of myself as well, through
02:43my career as an artist in Australia, I could say one of the best artists in Australia today.
02:52So what would Eric like people to feel when they see these paintings?
02:57Happy.
03:03Happy.
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