Namatjira Project

The Namatjira Project is an Australian community cultural development project, launched in 2009, conducted by arts and social change company Big hART. It is based in the Aboriginal communities of Hermannsburg and Alice Springs in the Northern Territory of Australia. Its focus is the life and work of the late Albert Namatjira, an Arrernte watercolour landscape artist. The project undertakes community work and has developed an award-winning touring theatre show, Namatjira, which depicts "the commercial appropriation of Aboriginal experience". Written by Scott Rankin, the show features Trevor Jamieson and Derik Lynch.

In 2017 a documentary feature film called Namatjira Project, directed by Sera Davies and produced by Big hART Productions was released. The film shows the actors, along with Namatjira's grandson Kevin, travel to London with the aim of securing copyright for Namatjira's artwork for his family, after it had been sold in 1983 by the Australian Government.

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