Nyoongar artist Sandra Hill was born in South Perth in 1951. Her mother’s clan are the Ballardong and Wilmen people and her father’s are the Wardandi and Minang people of Western Australia. Hill works across various media, including painting, printing, mixed-media collage, sculpture, installation and public art. Having these skills has meant that Hill has been in constant demand as an arts worker and she has worked for a number of institutions including the Longmore Remand Centre, Curtin University of Technology, Fish Mungah Aboriginal Cultural Arts Festival, Geraldton Regional Community Education, Artsource, Edith Cowan University and Fremantle Prison, undertaking roles such as workshop presenter, lecturer, teacher and researcher. Hill’s work is held in many private collections and in institutional collections, including that of the the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Claremont School of Art, Edith Cowan University, the Berndt Museum of Anthropology, the City of Bunbury, the Western Australian Museum, Queens University (Ontario, Canada), the Holmes a Court Collection, the Dutch Embassy in Canberra, the Cruthers Foundation at the University of Western Australia and the Dutch Royal Archives in the Netherlands. Daao.org.au/bio/sandra-hill/biography written by Tess Allas, 2009 updated in 2011