Marcia Langton AM (b. 1951) is Associate Provost and Foundation Chair and Professor of Australian Indigenous Studies at the University of Melbourne. A descendant of the Yiman and Bidjara nations of Queensland, she has written widely on Aboriginal land tenure, agreement-making, art and film in publications including Burning Questions: Emerging Environmental Issues for Indigenous Peoples in Northern Australia (1998), Settling with Indigenous People (2006), The Quiet Revolution: Indigenous people and the resources boom (2013) and Welcome to Country: A travel guide to Indigenous Australia (2018). Langton is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences of Australia, a member of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) and a board member of the Cape York Institute for Policy and Leadership and is a frank and forceful presence in the Australian media. In 2016 she was named a Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor of the University of Melbourne.
Many of Juno Gemes’s portraits of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander activists and leaders were exhibited in Proof: Portraits from the Movement 1978-2003 at the National Portrait Gallery in 2003.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2015
© Juno Gemes/Copyright Agency, 2021
On one level The Companion talks about the most famous and frontline Australians, but on another it tells us about ourselves: who we read, who we watch, who we listen to, who we cheer for, who we aspire to be, and who we'll never forget. The Companion is available to buy online and in the Portrait Gallery Store.
June Oscar AO lauds three iconic Aboriginal figures in the Portrait Gallery collection who have inspired and influenced her.
Brook Andrew, Marcia Langton and Anthony Mundine.
