Brewarrina arts leader Lily Shearer has been honoured after more than 40 years in her field at Creative Australia’s First Nations Arts and Culture Awards.
The Murrawarri/Ngemba woman was awarded the Red Ochre Award for Lifetime Achievement in Cultural Advocacy and Leadership at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney on Tuesday 27 May.
Ms Shearer said she cried when Creative Australia Executive Director Franchesca Cubillo told her in March that the she had been recognised…