Bullen took up the role of senior curator and head of Indigenous Programs at the Art Gallery of Western Australia (AGWA) in Perth last year – it was a return to an institution where she had worked for a decade, after four years as a curator of First Nations art at Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art. Bullen’s work provides a leading example of how art institutions might create, as she has put it, ‘sustainable pathways’ for Indigenous artists. This spring Bullen organised an expansive set of six exhibitions under the title of BlakLight, giving over AGWA’s entire programme and building to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists – remarkably the first time this has happened in an Australian public gallery. It might be seen as a visible culmination of Bullen’s long-term work supporting both Indigenous artists and art critics, ‘to ensure authentic representation and interpretation of ourselves across all forms of our cultural material’.