Controversy
Aboriginal critics were not pleased and Aboriginal gallery curator Doreen Mellor felt cheated. Durack was accused of appropriating Aboriginal culture for commercial purposes without permission. She insisted that she was speaking for Aborigines, but they did not appreciate the sentiment.
Durack continued to paint as "Eddie Burrup" until two weeks before her death in May 2000. Her daughter, Perpetua Durack Clancy, kept a website until the end of 2000 in the name of Eddie Burrup, with a note "Elizabeth Durack asserts the moral right to be identified as the substituent of Eddie Burrup".
The website elizabethdurack.com, run by the artist's estate, includes a section on Eddie Burrup, which includes the words "Eddie Burrup is me".
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