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Eddie BurrupEddie Burrup was a Australian aborigine pseudonym of Anglo-Australian painter Elizabeth Durack. Pictures, photographs and writings of Eddie Burrup begun to appear in 1994. Burrup was supposedly a former farm worker who was born 1915 in Western Australia and had begun to paint later in life. He gained some success during the Australian Aboriginal art movement during the 1990's. His works won awards and were selected for exhibitions for aboriginal artists. However, March 1997 the real painter revealed herself; she was not Australian aboriginal man but a white Australian woman, Elizabeth Durack. Durack claimed that her familiarity of Aboriginal life entitled her to create aboriginal art through the "alter ego" of Eddie Burrup. Durack claimed he was a compilation of various aboriginal men in her mind and had become important part of her creative process. Aboriginal critics were not pleased and aboriginal gallerist Doreen Mellor felt cheated. Durack was accused of appropriating aboriginal culture for commercial purposes without permission. She insisted that she was speaking for aboriginals, but they did not appreciate the sentiment. Durack continued to paint as "Eddie Burrup" until two weeks before her death on May 2000. Her daughter Perpetua Durack Clancy kept keeping a website until the end of the year 2000 in the name of Eddie Burrup, only with a note "Elizabeth Durack asserts the moral right to be identified as the substituent of Eddie Burrup". External links Burrup website in the Wayback machine
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