Sally Jane Morgan (née Milroy; born ) is an Australian Aboriginal author, dramatist, and artist. Her works are on display in numerous private and public collections in Australia and around the world.
Early life, education, and personal life
Morgan was born in Perth, Western Australia in as the eldest of five children. She was raised by her mother Gladys and her maternal grandmother Daisy. Her mother, a member of the Bailgu people of the Pilbara region of Western Australia, grew up in the Parkerville Children's Home as part of the Stolen Generations. Her father, William, a plumber by trade, died after a long-term battle with post-war experience post-traumatic stress disorder. Of her siblings, Jill Milroy is an academic, Helen Milroy is a child psychiatrist who was the first indigenous Australian to become a medical doctor, David is a playwright, and William has worked as a senior public servant.
As a child, Morgan became aware that she was different from other children at her school because of her non-white physical appearance, and was frequently questioned
Sally Morgan
Biography
Sally Morgan belongs to the Palku and Nyamal peoples of the Pilbara. Her family was part of the Stolen Generation and she grew up in Perth, unaware of her Aboriginal heritage. Until the age of 15 she was led to believe that she was of Indian descent. This experience of hidden origins and her subsequent quest for identity were the inspiration for her autobiography, My Place. While researching her family history for this book, Morgan’s childhood interest in art was rekindled. In , Sally Morgan held her first exhibition at the Birukmarri Gallery in Fremantle. She is currently Director of the Centre for Indigenous History and Arts at the University of Western Australia, Perth. She has continued to write, publishing children’s stories, another book and a play.
Citizenship, , is Morgan’s most widely known print. It was made for the Right Here, Right Now Australia exhibition held at Adelaide’s Experimental Art Foundation, which presented an alternative perspective on Australia’s Bicentennial celebrations. The text at the bottom of the print refers to the Natives (Citizenship Rights) Act of (Western Australia), which required Aboriginal people to appl
Sally Jane Morgan, (born 18 January ) is an Australian Aboriginal author, dramatist, and artist. Morgan&#;s works are on display in numerous private and public collections in Australia and around the world.
Morgan was born in Perth, Western Australia in as the eldest of five children. She was raised by her mother and grandmother. Her father passed away after a long-term battle with post-war experience post-traumatic stress disorder.
As a child, Morgan became aware that she was different from other children at her school because of her non-white physical appearance, and was frequently questioned by other students about her family background. Her mother never told her she was Aboriginal, saying instead that she was of Indian-Bangladeshi descent. She understood from her mother that her ancestors were from the Indian sub-continent. But when she was 15 she learned that she and her siblings were actually of Aboriginal descent, from the Bailgu people of the Pilbara region of Western Australia.
The story of her discovery of her family&#;s past is told in the multiple biographies My Place, which sold over half a million copies in Australia. It has also been published in Europe, As
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Sally Morgan's parents were William Joseph (a plumber) and Gladys Milroy. After her father's death, Morgan and her four siblings were raised by her mother and grandmother. Having been told that they were of Indian background, she discovered in her teens that the family had "part"-Aboriginal ancestry from her mother's and grandmother's side. This discovery motivated her later research into her family's history and culminated in the writing of her autobiographical work, My Place, which integrates the life stories of her mother (Gladys Milroy), her grandmother (Daisy Corunna), and her grandmother's brother (Arthur Corunna). She married Paul Morgan (a teacher) in In , she completed her BA at the University of Western Australia, majoring in psychology, and continued with postgraduate diplomas in Counselling Psychology, Computing and Library Studies at the Western Australian Institute of Technology.
My Place, published in , immediately became a best-seller, regarded as a revelation for white readers into the plight of Aboriginal people. However, the book's extraordinary success has also drawn some criticism, from white and Aboriginal
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