Ngan-Karlap Coaring (My Place Kwolyin)
2008
- Medium
- resin and earth pigments on canvas
- Measurements
- 100.3 × 100.3 cm
- Place/s of Execution
- Perth, Western Australia
- Accession Number
- 2009.577
- Department
- First Nations Australia
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, NGV Supporters of Indigenous Art, 2009
© Lindsay Harris. Courtesy of Emerge Art Space, Perth
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of The Vizard Foundation - Gallery location
- Gallery 1
Ground Level, NGV Australia - About this work
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Lindsay Harris is a Noongar artist who grew up in Kwolyin in Western Australia’s Wheatbelt. In this early work, Harris represents his cultural memory of Kwolyin, a once thriving settlement that is now deserted. Travelling through what remains of Kwolyin, Harris sees in the large granite rocks and the scarred surface of the land, signifiers of his Noongar ancestors, as he searches for a landscape that no longer exists. The raw pigments pressed into the canvas surface echo the body scars now almost lost to Noongar culture.