Indigenous art gallery owner

I’M NOT CLASSICALLY TRAINED; I KIND OF ›UST FELL INTO THE GALLERY WORLD. I’ve always loved art and did art at school but I wasn’t very good at it. I had plans of becoming a hotel general manager until, through blind luck, I ran into Helen McCarthy Tyalmuty, who is a world-renowned artist I had met years earlier in Darwin. She suggested that I come and work in a studio that she was in at the time and that was my first real insight into the world of Indigenous art.

It was 45 degrees and my partner Karl and I waved it off saying we’d explore another time.