Red Ochre Award for Pilkington Garimara

3 June 2008

In recognition of her lifetime contribution to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Arts, author Doris Pilkington Garimara has been awarded the Australia Council's Red Ochre Award. Pilkington Garimara is the author of Follow the Rabbit Proof Fence (UQP), the story of her mother and aunts' escape from a settlement in the...