Title: Joe Rootsey
Description: Joe Alimindjin Rootsey was one of Queensland's first indigenous people to be recognised as a contemporary artist. An inveterate sketcher, his artistic leanings were discovered by medical social worker Joan Innes Reid during a period of hospitalisation in north Queensland in the mid 1950s.
Subjects: Exhibitions, Aboriginal Australian Art
Places: Queensland, Australia
People: Joe Rootsey (1918-1963)