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I'm black (Nicky Winmar), covered vase

Rona Panangka Rubuntja
I'm black (Nicky Winmar), covered vase
 2015

Medium
earthenware

Measurements
(a-b) 53.1 × 24.8 cm diameter (overall)

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, Victorian Foundation for Living Australian Artists, 2015
© Rona Panangka Rubuntja/Licensed by Copyright Agency, Australia

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Gallery location
Gallery 8
Level 2, NGV Australia

Artwork Details

Place/s of Execution
Hermannsburg, Northern Territory

Inscription
(b) inscribed in fibre-tipped pen on base u.c.: RR724-15

Accession Number
2015.448.a-b

Department
First Nations Australia

Physical description
In Round 4 of the 1993 AFL season St Kilda played Collingwood. After the match, Nicky Winmar of the St Kilda Football Club, who was being subjected to systemic racial vilification by the Collingwood cheer squad, lifted up his football jumper and pointed to his skin in proud assertion of his Aboriginality.

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