Deception
However, in March 1997 the real painter revealed herself; she was not an Indigenous Australian man but a white Australian woman, Elizabeth Durack. Durack claimed that her familiarity with Aboriginal life entitled her to create Aboriginal art through the "alter ego" of Eddie Burrup, claiming he was a compilation of various Aboriginal men in her mind and had become an important part of her creative process.
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