Hetti Perkins

Who is Hetti Perkins?

Hetti Kemerre Perkins is an art curator and writer. She is the eldest daughter of Australian Aboriginal activist Charles Perkins and German-born Eileen Munchenberg, and sister to film director Rachel Perkins. Hetti Perkins is an Eastern Arrernte and Kalkadoon woman from Central Australia.

Hetti Perkins was the curator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney for thirteen years, but resigned from the job in 2011. She was a member of the International Selection Committee for the Biennale of Sydney in 2000. In 2010 she made a three-part ABC documentary called Art + Soul that was shown by ABC in October 2010.