Indigenous artist Tony Albert is making a public callout for Australians so-called ‘Aboriginalia’ – objects ostensibly depicting Aboriginal people and designs, but created by non-Indigenous people and often caricatured or exoticised.
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More than 3,000 items from Albert’s own collection are on display in his solo show, Not a Souvenir, opening at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) in Sydney on 21 May. The collection includes tea towels, ash trays and playing cards all depicting Indigenous people
‘I can use it, I can abuse it’: Tony Albert spent decades collecting racist ‘Aboriginalia’. Now he wants to turn yours into art ► https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/ng-interactive/2026/may/20/tony-albert-not-a-souvenir-mca-museum-contemporary-art-aboriginalia-into-art
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