Nyaparu ‘William’ Gardiner’s paintings capture a crucial moment in modern Indigenous Australian history: the 1946 Pilbara strike
Main image: Our Old People by William Gardiner won the works on paper category in the 2019 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards. Photograph: Merinda Campbell/Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern TerritoryNyaparu ‘William’ Gardiner was 70 when he started painting in 2014.
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