Background
She is the eldest daughter of Australian Aboriginal activist Charles Perkins and German-born Eileen Munchenberg, a granddaughter of Hetty Perkins, sister to film director Rachel Perkins, and a mother to Madeleine Madden.
She is the eldest daughter of Australian Aboriginal activist Charles Perkins and German-born Eileen Munchenberg, a granddaughter of Hetty Perkins, sister to film director Rachel Perkins, and a mother to Madeleine Madden.
Hetti Perkins is an Eastern Arrernte and Kalkadoon woman from Central Australia. Hetti Perkins was the curator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney for thirteen years, but resigned from the job in 2011. In 2010 she made a three-part American Broadcasting Company documentary called Art + Soul that was shown by American Broadcasting Company in October 2010 (have also been shown as "Aborginernas konst" in Sveriges Television).
She was a member of the International Selection Committee for the Biennale of Sydney in 2000.