Lindsay Harris

I am a Noongar artist and my interest has always been finding ways of representing my lands (Kwolyin). I see through my eyes and memories of Kwolyin and of the surrounding districts where I once lived.

When making my art, I introduce both memories and images of granite rocks, tracks and salt lakes. I paint using sticks which gives me a feeling of scarring the land. I like to compare the markings I make to the ceremonial scarring of the body, still practised by Aboriginal people today.

As a Noongar I have and I share in a special relationship to the country of my forebears. Overarching this relationship is the respect for my country and my involvement in its care and representation.

I feel that my art has to give a sense of intimacy and connection to my boodja (my land). Through my painting I invite people to go on a journey back to my land and see and understand it as I see it. My main endeavour is to help people make sense of the aesthetics of my land through utilising the actual or natural pigments of what is contained in my jam gum country.

Another aim is to personally journey deeper into the significance of my lands and landscape. I want to represent within an ideological space and to articulate it with thought, brush, mediums and textural narrative.

In conclusion I want to investigate ideological academic discourse with sign and signifier and perhaps apply this western construct to my work.

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