My country, I still call Australia home: Contemporary art from Black Australia

Brenda L Croft is from the Gurindji, Malngin, Mudpurra peoples in the Northern Territory on her paternal side, and Anglo-Australian/German/Irish heritage on her maternal side. She has been involved in the arts and cultural sectors for nearly three decades as an artist, arts administrator, curator, academic and consultant. Since March 2012 Brenda has been a Senior Research Fellow with the National Institute for Experimental Arts, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales. In 2011 Brenda was awarded an Australian Research Council Discovery Indigenous Award 2012 and is currently undertaking her PhD. Glenn Iseger-Pilkington is a member of the Wadjarri, Nhanda and Nyoongar peoples of Western Australia. Glenn undertook his formal art training at the School of Contemporary Art, Edith Cowan University, majoring in Printmaking, and in 2007 he commenced his position as Associate Curator of Indigenous Objects and Photography at the Art Gallery of Western Australia. Along with his experience as a successful art practitioner, Glenn has worked within the visual arts sector over the last decade as an arts development officer, curator, author, advisor and advocate for Indigenous Australian artists. Hetti Perkins is a member of the Eastern Arrernte and Kalkadoon Aboriginal communities and resident curator at Bangarra Dance Theatre and the inaugural artistic director of Sydney’s Corroboree (November 2013). She was the senior curator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney, and has worked with Indigenous visual art for 25 years. Hetti was an agent for dOCUMENTA (13) 2012 and is the curatorial advisor to the City of Sydney on the Eora Journey. QUEENSLAND ART GALLERY | GALLERY OF MODERN ART Tamsin Cull is Senior Program Officer, Children’s Art Centre, and curator for ‘Gordon Hookey Kangaroo Crew’. José Da Silva is Senior Curator, Australian Cinémathèque, and curator for the My Life As I Live It: First Peoples and Black Cinema program. Bruce McLean is a member of the Wierdi (Wirri) people of the Birri Gubba and Wribpid Nations of Central Queensland. He is Curator, Indigenous Australian Art and is the exhibition curator for ‘My Country, I Still Call Australia Home: Contemporary Art from Black Australia’. Contributing authors Hermannsburg potters Pottery workshop Rahel Ungwanaka Arrernte/Luritja peoples NT Ankarta (Frill-necked lizard) 2005 Earthenware, handbuilt terracotta clay with underglaze colours and applied decoration Purchased 2006. Queensland Art Gallery Foundation 190