Over forty years curatorial experience in the public gallery/arts sector including employment as Senior Curator of Aboriginal Art and Material Culture at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (1978-2005). Founder of the ‘National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award’ with extensive experience in Indigenous community consultation and museum development, and exhibition research, implementation and publication, the most recent being: 'Yidumduma Bill Harney, Bush Professor', ‘Yalangbara, Art of the Djang’kawu’, ‘Recoil; Change and Exchange in Coiled Fibre Art,’ ‘Yulyurlu Lorna Fencer Napurrurla’ . Recipient of a Churchill Fellowship 2002 and made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in 2006 for services to Indigenous art.