Maree Clarke is a Yorta Yorta / Wamba Wamba / Mutti Mutti / Boonwurrung artist and designer and a pivotal figure in the reclamation of south-east Australian Aboriginal art and cultural practices.

To celebrate NAIDOC Week and the opening of Maree Clarke: Ancestral Memories, the first major retrospective of the artist’s work, Clarke speaks with NGV Curator of Indigenous Art Myles Russell-Cook about her passion for reviving and sharing elements of Aboriginal culture, and reflects on over three decades of her artistic output.