{"id":127306,"date":"2025-10-17T05:04:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T05:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/127306\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T05:04:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T05:04:13","slug":"national-gallery-will-host-apy-artwork-exhibition-after-paintings-cleared-of-improper-interference-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/127306\/","title":{"rendered":"National Gallery will host APY artwork exhibition after paintings cleared of improper interference"},"content":{"rendered":"

The National Gallery of Australia will host a major exhibition of art from the A\u1e49angu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands in 2026, three years after an independent review cleared artists of allegations of improper interference.<\/p>\n

The exhibition, Ngura Pulka \u2014 Epic Country, was postponed in June 2023 after a video emerged which appeared to show a non-Aboriginal assistant helping to paint an artwork.<\/p>\n

As a result of the allegations, the gallery commissioned an independent review<\/a> into the provenance of 28 paintings by APY artists that were to have featured in the exhibition.<\/p>\n

It found that all paintings satisfied the NGA’s “provenance standards”, which relate to the integrity of artistic production, and determined the work in the video was not one of the paintings included in the exhibition.<\/p>\n

\"Stills<\/p>\n

The independent investigation found the painting seen in the video was not one of the pieces included in the postponed exhibition. (ABC News)<\/p>\n

The reviewers acknowledged placing “considerable weight” on statements by the artists from the APY Art Centre Collective (APYACC) that the works were their own, stating that claims to the contrary had “no proper foundation”.<\/p>\n

“We strongly reject any implicit or actual suggestion that the artists have been engaged in any cover-up, abandonment of their cultural obligations or dishonest practice by making false claims of authorship in the paintings,” they said.<\/p>\n

The artists and art centres at the centre of the allegations strenuously denied the allegations of improper interference.<\/p>\n

“‘White hands on black art’ is a false story and it always was,” the APYACC said in a signed statement at the time.<\/p>\n

“We, the artists, who have signed this statement have maintained a dignified silence during a long and painful time when our integrity, our livelihoods, our families, and our art have been under sustained attack.”<\/p>\n

The exhibition will open in early 2026, showcasing large-scale works by senior First Nations artists and art centres from the APY Lands, Coober Pedy and Tarntanya\/Adelaide.<\/p>\n

It is scheduled to run at the National Gallery of Australia from April 11 to August 23, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The National Gallery of Australia will host a major exhibition of art from the A\u1e49angu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125491,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[267],"tags":[75029,25082,76066,76063,76064,76073,76074,595,2038,365,362,363,364,53922,20588,366,18,117,2037,73245,19,76067,44047,4660,76072,76068,17,76065,3136,53923,76062,47915,76069,76070,42420,1142,76075,836,76071],"class_list":{"0":"post-127306","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-aboriginal","9":"tag-act","10":"tag-allegations","11":"tag-aangu-pitjantjatjara-yankunytjatjara","12":"tag-apy","13":"tag-apy-art-centre-collective","14":"tag-apyacc","15":"tag-art","16":"tag-artists","17":"tag-arts","18":"tag-arts-and-design","19":"tag-artsanddesign","20":"tag-artsdesign","21":"tag-canberra","22":"tag-clear","23":"tag-design","24":"tag-eire","25":"tag-entertainment","26":"tag-exhibition","27":"tag-first-nations","28":"tag-ie","29":"tag-improper","30":"tag-independent","31":"tag-indigenous","32":"tag-integrity","33":"tag-interference","34":"tag-ireland","35":"tag-lands","36":"tag-local-news","37":"tag-local-stories","38":"tag-national-gallery-of-australia","39":"tag-nga","40":"tag-ngura-pulka-epic-country","41":"tag-non-aboriginal","42":"tag-provenance","43":"tag-review","44":"tag-sa","45":"tag-video","46":"tag-yaritji-young"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}