Margo Ngawa Neale is an Australian author, historian and curator, who claims to be of Aboriginal and Irish descent, and a Gumbaynggirr and Wiradjuri woman.[1][2] Her First Nations name is Ngawa Gurrawa and it means "talkative but knowledgeable".[3]
Neale is based in Canberra and is an adjunct professor at the Australian National University and is the senior Indigenous curator and as the principle advisor to the director or the National Museum of Australia.[4] She has also served as the Head of the Gallery of Aboriginal Australia at the museum.
As a curator Neale has pioneered major exhibitions including the international solo exhibition of the works of Emily Kame Kngwarreye in 2008 as well as the Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters exhibition.[1][5]
She is an internationally recognised expert on Songlines and says that they are "the history of Australia, written by Aboriginal people recorded millennia before white man arrived".[3]
Select publications
editNeale has been the editor of many publications including:[2]
References
edit- ^ a b "Prof. Margo Neale". Moriarty Foundation. Retrieved 24 July 2024.
- ^ a b "Margo Neale | AustLit: Discover Australian Stories". www.austlit.edu.au. Retrieved 24 July 2024.
- ^ a b "A Summer of Hope: Margo's story". HerCanberra. 24 January 2022. Retrieved 24 July 2024.
- ^ "Margo Neale | Contributors | Frieze". www.frieze.com. Retrieved 24 July 2024.
- ^ National Museum of Australia. "Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters". www.nma.gov.au. Retrieved 25 July 2024.
- ^ Neale, Margo; Kelly, Lynne (2020), Songlines : the power and promise, Thames & Hudson Australia, ISBN 978-1-76076-118-9
- ^ Neale, Margo (2017), Songlines : tracking the Seven Sisters (1st ed.), National Museum of Australia Press, ISBN 978-1-921953-29-3
- ^ Neale, Margo; National Museum of Australia (1992), Utopia : the genius of Emily Kame Kngwarreye (Revised ed.), National Museum of Australia Press, ISBN 978-1-876944-66-7
- ^ Kleinert, Sylvia; Neale, Margo; Bancroft, Robyne, eds. (2000), The Oxford companion to Aboriginal art and culture, Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-550649-5