The National Indigenous Art Fair (NIAF) will transform the Overseas Passenger Terminal at Sydney’s Circular Quay into a vibrant marketplace for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists, designers, and makers from community-owned art centres around Australia – as far as Aurukun in remote Queensland, and Ramingining, the Tiwi Islands, and Yuendumu in the Northern Territory – from 1 to 2 July.
The two-day ethical art market will feature artworks, design objects, fashion, jewellery, homewares, and native-dyed and hand-printed textiles. In the spirit of the 2023 National NAIDOC Week theme, ‘For Our Elders’, the event will also feature a vibrant program of live experiences: music, dance performances, cultural displays, talks, and workshops, with more than twenty-five Blak Markets stallholders, and a group of Aboriginal weavers and fibre artists creating a woven sculpture on site.
Aboriginal Tourism 2022 NIAF Portrait of Margaret Djarrbalabal Malibirr. Photograph: DestinationNSW. Courtesy National Indigenous Art Fair, Sydney
