Lily Shearer receives the 2025 Red Ochre for Lifetime Achievement in Cultural Advocacy and Leadership
Image by Joseph Mayers
Image by Joseph Mayers
We are thrilled to let you know that Lily Shearer, the Co-Founder and Artistic Director of Moogahlin Performing Arts has been named as recipient of the Red Ochre Award for Lifetime Achievement in Cultural Advocacy and Leadership at the First Nations Arts and Culture Awards presented by Creative Australia.
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This award honours Lily's immense contribution over more than 40 years to First Peoples cultural development, arts management, performance and theatre-making. Lily began in Cultural Arts as a Dancer and her practice is deeply embedded in Cultural Values and beliefs of Murrawarri/Ngemba peoples, instilled to her by her grandparents, parents and community of Brewarrina where she was born and raised, and in the diverse knowledge of the University of Elders she has worked with in Brewarrina, Redfern, Glebe, Blacktown (Mt Druitt) and Sydney's Greater West.
Image by Joseph Mayers
As part of her role with Moogahlin, Lily is Director of the annual Baiame's Ngunnhu Festival in Brewarrina and the biennial Yellamundie Festival program of First Peoples creative development and performance held at Carriageworks, Sydney.
The team at Moogahlin is absolutely thrilled that Lily's expansive contribution to the arts has been recognised with this prestigious award, and we are very proud of her.
