MPavilion Opening November 2020

Namila Benson

Image by Nik Harrison

Namila Benson is a broadcaster, producer, writer and educator. She’s spent more than two decades working across multiple media platforms, including as a broadcaster on the long-running ABC TV arts show, Art Nation and as a producer and presenter on Radio Australia’s Pacific Service. Whether on radio, television or digital, Namila has focused heavily on the intersections of visual art, identity politics and cultural settings.

She is a regular public speaker at arts, cultural and music events and also wrote the memoir of much-loved Aboriginal actor, activist and Elder, Uncle Jack Charles. “Jack Charles: Born-again Blakfella” was released August 2019. Namila is one of 98 international artists included in the Biennale of Sydney 2020 line-up.

Wominjeka (Welcome). We acknowledge the Yaluk-ut Weelam as the traditional custodians of the land on which we meet. Yaluk-ut Weelam means ‘people of the river camp’ and is connected with the coastal land at the head of Port Phillip Bay, extending from the Werribee River to Mordialloc. The Yaluk-ut Weelam are part of the Boon Wurrung, one of the five major language groups of the greater Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to the land, their ancestors and their elders—past, present and to the future.