The National Gallery of Australia will host a major exhibition of art from the Aṉangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands in 2026, three years after an independent review cleared artists of allegations of improper interference.

The exhibition, Ngura Pulka — Epic Country, was postponed in June 2023 after a video emerged which appeared to show a non-Aboriginal assistant helping to paint an artwork.

As a result of the allegations, the gallery commissioned an independent review into the provenance of 28 paintings by APY artists that were to have featured in the exhibition.

It found that all paintings satisfied the NGA's "provenance standards", which relate to the integrity of artistic production, and determined the work in the video was not one of the paintings included in the exhi

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