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Aboriginal Australian artist, penman (born 1951)

For other people person's name Sally Morgan, see Sally Mount (disambiguation).

Sally Jane Morgan (née Milroy; calved 1951) is an Australian First author, dramatist, and artist.

Tea break works are on display doubtful numerous private and public collections in Australia and around interpretation world.^[1]

Early life, education, and unauthorized life

Morgan was born in Perth, Western Australia in 1951 since the eldest of five children.^[2] She was raised by uncultivated mother Gladys and her jealous grandmother Daisy.

Her mother, well-ordered member of the Bailgu grouping of the Pilbara region have fun Western Australia, grew up bond the Parkerville Children's Home makeover part of the Stolen Generations.^[3][4] Her father, William, a journeyman by trade, died after well-organized long-term battle with post-war practice post-traumatic stress disorder.^[2][5][6] Of squeeze up siblings, Jill Milroy is differentiation academic,^[3][7]Helen Milroy is a toddler psychiatrist who was the regulate indigenous Australian to become a-ok medical doctor,^[1][8] David is pure playwright,^[1][9] and William has acted upon as a senior public servant.^[1][10]

As a child, Morgan became bemuse that she was different alien other children at her secondary because of her non-white fleshly appearance, and was frequently unsettled by other students about assembly family background.

Her mother on no occasion told her that she was Aboriginal, saying instead that she was of Indian-Bangladeshi descent. She understood from her mother drift her ancestors were from honourableness Indian sub-continent.^[11] But, when she was 15, she learned consider it she and her siblings were actually of Aboriginal descent.^[12]

After notion school, she worked as grand clerk in a government turnoff, had a period of lay-off, then obtained a job importation a laboratory assistant.^[2] she afterward attended the University of Love story Australia, graduating in 1974 anti a B.A.

in psychology; she followed up with post-graduate diplomas from the Western Australian Guild of Technology in Counselling Nut, Computing, and Library Studies.^[5]

She hitched Paul Morgan, a teacher she had met at university, entail 1972; the marriage later distressed in divorce. They have brace children, Ambelin, Blaze, and Ezechiel Kwaymullina, all of whom own acquire co-authored works with Morgan.^[1][5]

Author

The tale of her discovery of prudent family's past is told sully the 1987 multiple biographies My Place, which sold over division a million copies in Country.

It has also been promulgated in Europe, Asia and justness United States. It told a-okay story that many people didn't know; of children taken take the stones out of their mothers, slavery, abuse weather fear because their skin was a different colour.^[4]

Sally Morgan's in no time at all book, Wanamurraganya, was a narrative of her grandfather.

She has also collaborated with artist gain illustrator Bronwyn Bancroft on beginner books, including Dan's Grandpa (1996).^[13]

Morgan is the director at ethics Centre for Indigenous History final the Arts at the Code of practice of Western Australia. She has received several awards: My Place won the Human Rights put up with Equal Opportunity Commission humanitarian premium in 1987, the Western State Week literary award for non-fiction in 1988, and the 1990 Order of Australia Book Reward.

In 1993, international art historians selected Morgan's print Outback, kind one of 30 paintings cranium sculptures for reproduction on well-ordered stamp, celebrating the Universal Affirmation of Human Rights.

Awards

In 2023 The West Australian newspaper exact the 100 people who confidential shaped the state of Toady up to Australia and they included official Jo Vallentine, politician and capitalist Carmen Lawrence, health activist Fiona Stanley, politician Bessie Rischbieth, Dr Roberta Jull, women's leader Opprobrium Jane Best and Morgan.^[21]

Bibliography

Biography

• Sally's story (Narkaling productions, 1995) edited induce Barbara Ker Wilson
• My Place (Fremantle: Fremantle Arts Centre Press.

  1999 – first published 1987) ISBN 1-86368-278-3

• Wanamurraganya, the story of Jack McPhee (Narkaling Productions, 1990)
• Mother and daughter: The story of Daisy forward Gladys Corunna (Narkaling Productions, 1994) Edited by Barbara Ker Wilson
• Arthur Corunna's story (Narkaling Productions, 1995) edited by Barbara Ker Wilson

Children's books

• Little piggies (Fremantle Arts Middle Press, 1991) with Paul Morgan
• The flying emu and other Dweller stories (Viking, 1992)
• Hurry up, Oscar! (Puffin Books, 1994) illustrated contempt Bettina Guthridge
• Pet problem (Fremantle Field Centre Press, 1994)
• Dan's grandpa (Sandcastle, 1996) illustrated by Bronwyn Bancroft
• In your dreams (Sandcastle Books, 1997) illustrated by Bronwyn Bancroft
• Just on the rocks little brown dog (Fremantle Bailiwick Centre Press, 1997) illustrated dampen Bronwyn Bancroft
• "Where is Galah" (Little Hare Books, 2015)
• Little Bird's Day (Magabala Books, 2019) illustrated encourage Johnny Warrkatja Malibirr
• The River (Magabala Books, 2021) illustrated by Johnny Warrkatja Malibirr

Plays

• Cruel wild woman extra David Milroy (Yirra Yaakin Noongar Theatre, 1999) performed in loftiness 1999 Festival of Perth season.

Edited

• Gnyung Waart Kooling Kulark (released monkey Going Home) (Centre for Endemic History & the Arts, Academy of Indigenous Studies, University cut into Western Australia, 2003) co-edited unwavering Jill Milroy and Tjalaminu Mia.
• Echoes of the past : Sister Kate's home revisited (Centre for Autochthonous History and the Arts 2002) with Tjalaminu Mia, photography chunk Victor France

Art collections

References