Name

Maggie West

Culture

Australian

Gender

Female

Occupations

Anthropologist | Art curator

Summary

Worked: Australia

Context

Australia

Biography

'Margie West AM holds the honorary position of Emeritus Curator of Aboriginal Art at the Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory. She is an anthropologist with over thirty years of curatorial experience in indigenous art. Since 1972 she has curated over forty semi-permanent and touring Aboriginal art exhibitions and has published extensively on Aboriginal art. Some of the recent publications she has edited include Transitions (2000), Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award: celebrating 20 years (2004), ReCoil, change and exchange in coiled fibre art' (2007). She was also co-editor with Hetti Perkins on the One sun one moon publication (2006).' [Provided by publisher].

Last Updated

10 Oct 2023