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Aboriginal Australian art curator and writer

For her grandmother, the Arrernte elder, see Hetty Perkins.

Hetti Perkins
Born	1965 (age 59–60)
Other names	Hetti Kemerre Perkins
Occupation	Art curator
Years active	1987–
Known for	art + soul (2010)

Hetti Kemerre Perkins (born 1965) is an Aboriginal Australian art curator and writer.

Hetti Perkins, 57, an art curator and writer, and her daughter Thea Anamara Perkins, 31, an artist, are Arrernte and Kalkadoon women.

Hetti Perkins, 57, an art curator and writer, and her daughter Thea Anamara Perkins, 31, an artist, are Arrernte and Kalkadoon women.

Hetti Perkins.

Hetti Perkins is the daughter of the great Charles Perkins, and grew up playing around the Aboriginal Tent Embassy outside Old Parliament House.

Hettie Perkins is an Indigenous Australian.

The child of indigenous activist and politician Charles Perkins, Hetti Perkins has carved her own name as a curator, writer, filmmaker and artistic director.

She is known for her work at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, where she was the senior curator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art at the gallery from around 1998 until 2011, and for many significant exhibitions and projects.

Early life and education

Hetti Kemerre Perkins^[1] is an Eastern Arrernte and Kalkadoon woman from Central Australia. She was born in 1965, the daughter of Aboriginal Australian activist Charles Perkins^[2] and his wife Eileen Munchenberg.

Hetti is a granddaughter of Hetty Perkins; sister to film director Rachel Perkins and b