Vincent Forrester-Mutitjulu is better known as advisor to three Australian Prime Ministers (Whitlam, Fraser & Hawke), successful lobbyist and political activist on issues affecting Indigenous Australians.

Now in his mid fifties, his work is immediately bold and dramatic with an enviable balance of his own brand of modern minimalist blended with traditional Indigenous visual language. His clear and precise images reflect his life around him: camping, body painting, and landscapes such as the great monolith of Uluru in the "proper, traditional" colours of the Central Desert region.

It is an area he knows extremely well, its nuances etched in his memory and in the stories passed down from his family. He has straddled the two worlds of European-descendant Australians with his own as a Luritja/Aranda man, and traditional elder of Mutitjulu. Born in Alice Springs in 1952 with a Scottish grandfather and grandmother born at Katajuta, Vincent spent his youth as a stockman travelling the country widely, but proudly retaining the stories and culture of his Aboriginal ancestry.

"Growing up on Angus Downs (400kms southwest of Alice Springs), I observed the dispossession and food rationing (flour, tea and sugar) because my people had no human rights. I rebelled against the policies of assimilation for a considerable number of years, and have been an activist for the social and and political development of Aboriginal people for more than two decades."

Vincent was the Australian member for the World Indigenous People in Geneva and was instrumental in forming the Central Land Council, Aboriginal Legal Services, Central Aboriginal Media Association and its television station.