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YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE AN AVID follower of Aboriginal art when it comes to the fascinating pull of Ngarra and his life, as told through his texta drawings. Hailing from up north in the Kimberley, this Indigenous artist created works that defied categorisation, creating a visual language that smoothly weaved past and present culture into his own individual work. While in the art world Ngarra primarily exhibited his paintings, this first monograph, , focuses on a relatively unknown but equally prolific side to his practice – texta.

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