Margie West

Margie West AM has lived in the Northern Territory since taking up the position of Curator of Aboriginal Art and Material Culture at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT) in 1978. Since 2005 she has been an Emeritus Curator with MAGNT and works as a private curatorial consultant. She was the founder of the National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award and has curated over forty semi-permanent and touring Aboriginal art exhibitions, the most recent being ReCoil:...See more

Margie West AM has lived in the Northern Territory since taking up the position of Curator of Aboriginal Art and Material Culture at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT) in 1978. Since 2005 she has been an Emeritus Curator with MAGNT and works as a private curatorial consultant. She was the founder of the National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award and has curated over forty semi-permanent and touring Aboriginal art exhibitions, the most recent being ReCoil: Change & Exchange in Coiled Fibre Art, and Yalangbara, Art of the Djang'kawu. She has published extensively on Aboriginal art, including contributions to the Oxford Companion to Aboriginal Art and Culture and coediting with Hetti Perkins, One Sun One Moon: Aboriginal art in Australia . See less