This is a story about my father, Ron Hurley, the first Aboriginal artist to graduate from the Queensland College of Art. With the upcoming anniversaries of his birthday (19 October 1946) and passing (3 November 2002), I wanted to remember him and to reflect on the retrospective exhibition of his work, Nurreegoo, that was held at Brisbane’s Gallery of Modern Art more than ten years ago. It’s a story about words as well as artwork. A story about family and its broadest meanings. A story about the complexity of language and the different ways of naming in the world.