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Ngan-Karlap Coaring (My Place Kwolyin)

Lindsay Harris
Ngan-Karlap Coaring (My Place Kwolyin)
 2008

Medium
resin and earth pigments on canvas

Measurements
100.3 × 100.3 cm

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, NGV Supporters of Indigenous Art, 2009
© Lindsay Harris. Courtesy of Emerge Art Space, Perth

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Gallery location
Gallery 1
Ground Level, NGV Australia

 

About this work

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.

Artwork Details

Place/s of Execution
Perth, Western Australia

Accession Number
2009.577

Department
First Nations Australia

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