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Hetti Perkins Hetti Perkins i(A80802 works by)
Gender: Female
Heritage: Aboriginal ; Aboriginal Arrernte ; Aboriginal Kalkadoon
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1 2 form y separately published work icon Servant or Slave Hetti Perkins , Stanley Mitchell , ( dir. Steven McGregor ) 2015 10454557 2015 single work film/TV

'Servant or Slave follows the lives of five Aboriginal women who were stolen from their families and trained to be domestic servants. With the government exercising complete control over their wages, many thousands of Aboriginal girls and boys were effectively condemned to a treadmill of abuse, from which there was little hope of escape.' (Source: Screen Australia website)
1 Seeing and Seaming : Contemporary Aboriginal Art Hetti Perkins , 2003 single work essay
— Appears in: Blacklines : Contemporary Critical Writing by Indigenous Australians 2003; (p. 97-103) The author 'shows how earlier anthropological discourses have embedded 'determinist perceptions of authenticity' in contemporary art critical practice,' and looks at 'the politics of intercultural appropriation and the 'hidden undercurrent of dialogue between artists and cultures' that has been problematically 'polarised by centre/periphery models'.' ( Blacklines , p.11-12)
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