Mirri Leven, has recently become a Director of Coo-ee Art – an organisation founded in the 1980s, by Adrian Newstead – which has grown and developed with the times but remains devoted to promoting Aboriginal Art and artists.

Coo-ee Art has returned to its original environs on Oxford Street Paddington, as well as retaining its gallery in Bondi.

Mirri speaks about Coo-ee and its current exhibitions featuring Helen S Tiernan at Bondi and her exhibition Transculturation: Sublime and Surreal Encounters of First Contact in the Antipodes until 03 June.

Listen to the interview broadcast on 4 May 3013.

For further information about Coo-ee Art go to: www.cooeeart.com.au

Cooee Art Gallery,31 Lamrock Avenue, Bondi and Coo-ee at Paddington 326 Oxford Street.

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