National Reconciliation Week 2024

Buy art from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander owned businesses, First Nations Art Centres, galleries registered with the Indigenous Art Code or from independent First Nations artists directly. For information on how to buy art ethically, visit the Indigenous Art Code. For links to ethical dealers and First Nations Art Centres around the country, search members of the Indigenous Art Code or visit the peak bodies:

• Arnhem, Northern and Kimberley Artists (ANKA) 
• Desart 
• Aboriginal Art Centre Hub Western Australia (AACHWA) 
• Indigenous Art Centre Alliance (IACA) 
• UMI Arts 
• Ku Arts

In NSW

Aboriginal Culture, Heritage & Arts Association Inc (ACHAA) 

Blak Markets

Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co-operative

SOUTHEAST Aboriginal Arts Market

In Vic

Blak Dot

Baluk Arts

Black Rainbow

Change the Record

Children’s Ground

Common Ground

Dhadjowa Foundation

The Healing Foundation

Pay The Rent

Seed

Sisters Inside

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Service (Qld) Ltd

Aboriginal Legal Rights Movement, South Australia
Aboriginal Legal Service of Western Australia
Aboriginal Legal Service (NSW/ACT) Limited
North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency
Tasmanian Aboriginal Legal Service
Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service

Now More Than Ever: It’s Time to Stand Up for Reconciliation, Karen Mundine, Reconciliation Australia

Protocols for using First Nations Cultural and Intellectual Property in the Arts, Creative Australia

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander principles and protocols, NSW Education Standards Authority

Deadly Arts collection, ARTS:LIVE

Aboriginal Arts and Culture Protocols, Create NSW

Valuing Art, Respecting Culture, Doreen Mellor and Terri Janke

Indigenous Cultural & Intellectual Property (ICIP), Artists in the Black

NAVA Guides and Resources:

First Nations, Code of Practice

Working with First Nations Art Centres, Code of Practice

Respecting ICIP in Collecting Institutions, Nathan Sentance, Tammi Gissell and Madeline Poll

NAVA Talks AI and ICIP

Cultural Authority and Consultation, Wesley Shaw

Sacred Data, Jazz Money

Change the Conversation from Surviving to Thriving, Georgia Mokak

Tips to Making a Genuine Commitment to First Nations and People of Colour in the Arts, Georgia Mokak

Confined 15, 3 May – 2 June, The Torch, Vic

GUWAYU: FOR ALL TIME, 3 May – 28 July, Mudgee Arts Precinct, NSW

Tokenist, ally or accomplice?, 27 May, UTS Tower, NSW

Reconciliation Week Film Screening, 27 May – 31 May, Fisher Library, NSW

Traditional Aboriginal Games, 1 June, Ryde Park, NSW

VITAL, 10 May – 2 June, Gallery M, SA

Reconciliation Week Community BBQ, 27 May, Alice Springs Town Council Chamber Lawns, SA

Reconciliation Day at Commonwealth Park, 27 May, Commonwealth Park, ACT

First Nations Experiences of Democracy Tour, 27 May, Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House, ACT

Reconciliation Yarns, 28 May, Yorkas Nyinning Building, WA

National Reconciliation Week Events 2024

Visit the National Reconciliation Week calendar to find more public events near you.

The National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA) is a national organisation with staff who work across multiple states. The NAVA Board, and the artists, arts workers and organisations that we represent are based across hundreds of sovereign nations and unceded lands throughout the continent that has become colonially known as Australia.

NAVA acknowledges the Traditional Owners, Custodians and knowledge-holders of the unceded lands on which we live, learn, and work. We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the first artists and storytellers on this continent and pay respect to First Nations communities' ancestors and Elders. Sovereignty was never ceded. Always was, always will be Aboriginal land.

Image: Amanda Bell, Undertow, 2022. Image credit to Pixel Poetry and Fremantle Arts Centre.

ID: In a dark room with black walls, a vibrant red LED light sign says “our silence is full of rage”. The sign reflects onto a dark wooden floor.