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Matilda House presides at the first Welcome to Country, 2008 (printed 2009)

Juno Gemes

inkjet print on paper (sheet: 68.5 cm x 76.5 cm, image: 50.5 cm x 59.4 cm)

Matilda House presides at the first Welcome to Country

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2009
© Juno Gemes/Copyright Agency, 2021

Accession number: 2009.89

Currently not on display

Artist and subject

Juno Gemes (age 64 in 2008)

Matilda House (age 63 in 2008)

Subject professions

Indigenous identity

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1. Matilda (Ngambri/Ngunnawal), 2020 Brenda L. Croft. © Brenda L Croft/Copyright Agency, 2021. 2. Kevin Gilbert and Joe in discussion outside Anti-Bicentennial and Treaty Meeting Balmain Town Hall Sydney, 1987 Juno Gemes. © Juno Gemes/Copyright Agency, 2021. 3. Jeffrey Samuels, Boomalli workshop, 2003 Juno Gemes. © Juno Gemes/Copyright Agency, 2021. 4. Oodgeroo Noonuccal at Moongalba Stradbroke Island (her sitting down place)1982 Juno Gemes. © Juno Gemes/Copyright Agency, 2021.

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