Vernon Ah Kee’s portrait of Lex Wotton (2013) in NAS exhibition “Not an animal or plant”, as part of Sydney Festival; Courtesy the artist
This year the 41 year-old Sydney Festival has its first ever Indigenous Artistic Director at its helm. It has been a long time coming but the timing offers a curious alignment, coinciding with the 50th anniversay of the 1967 Australian Referendum that recognised Aboriginal Australians in our census, and empowered the Federal Parliament to legislate specifically for the benefit of Indigenous people.
