In the 1990s works by an artist called Eddie Burrup achieved some success as part of the Aboriginal art movement.  Several works were selected for exhibition open only to Aboriginal artists and even won awards.  A scandalous affair developed in 1997 when it was revealed that these works were not that of an Aboriginal person, but that of an elderly Anglo-Australian artist called Elizabeth Durack. The artist claimed that her intimate familiarity with Aboriginal life entitles her to create art by her 'alter ego.  Needless to say, this was not the perspective of Aboriginal critics. Check here for the full story. and here for a very different perspective.

A site maintained by the artist's daughter present the works and provide information on Eddie Burrup with no mention of the hoax.  The tone of the purported 'artist's comments' is derogatory.