When Richard Bell swaggered to the stage at the opening of the 20th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Awards in 2003 to claim the first prize for his painting Scientia E Metaphysica (Bell’s Theorem), he wore the now infamous t-shirt emblazoned in large white lettering with “White girls can’t hump”.
Furore erupted, perhaps not so much in the crowd assembled on the front lawn of the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT), but certainly in the assembled media who sensed instantly (and with glee) that