Hetti Kemarre Perkins

Hetti Kemarre Perkins, daughter of Aboriginal rights activist Charles Perkins, is an Arrernte and Kalkadoon art curator and writer. From 1989 until 2011 Perkins worked at the Art Gallery of New South Wales (Sydney), including thirteen years as senior curator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art. She co-organized the Australian entry for the 1997 Venice Biennale. In 2010, she organized the project “art + soul: a journey into the world of Aboriginal art”, which incorporated a significant exhibition, an accompanying book and a three-part television documentary made by ABC Television. Hetti Kemarre Perkins has organized several major exhibitions and projects, as well as co-organizing a major retrospective of Emily Kam Kngwarray’s oeuvre held at the National Gallery of Australia in 2023/2024.