Sally Morgan (artist)

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Sally Jane Morgan (née Milroy, born 18 January 1951 in Perth, Western Australia) is an Indigenous Australian author, scriptwriter and artist.

Morgan's works are on display in numerous private and public collections in both her own country and around the world.

Sally was born in Perth in 1951, the eldest of five children. As a child she found school difficult because of questions from other students about her appearance and family background. She understood from her mother that she and her family were from India. However, when Sally was fifteen she learnt that she and her sister were in fact of Aboriginal descent, from the Palku people of the Pilbara. This story of her discovery of her family's past is told in My Place (1987). She has received many awards, including the Human Rights and Equal Opportunities Commission and the Order of Australia Book Prize. As a part of the celebration in 1993 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, her print 'Outback' was selected by international art historians as one of 30 paintings and sculptures for reproduction on a stamp representing an article of the Declaration.

Sally is a professor at the Centre for Indigenous History and the Arts, the School of Indigenous Studies, at the University of Western Australia.