Lindsay Harris

I am a Nyoongar 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 Nyoongar 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.

*** Lindsay Harris: Finalist in the 25th Silver Jubilee Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award***

Lindsay Harris held his first successful interstate exhibition 'Maarng-Art Boodja (Jam tree Country)' at the renowned Alcaston Art Gallery in February 2010.


 Curriculum Vitae

Exhibitions

  • May 31 - June 25, 2006 - 'emerge '06' - Group Show A group exhibition by many of the artists represented by emerge ART SPACE including Lindsay Harris , Di Cubitt , Alana McVeigh , Mason Kimber, Kirstine Sadler , Eli Smith ,Estelle Dean , Berenice Rarig , Mel Dare , Angela McHarrie , and Tori Benz
  • June 28 - July 27, 2006 - 'Moments in Time' - Lindsay Harris This is Nyoongar artist Lindsay Harris' first solo painting exhibition using resin, ochre & pigments that are part of his country Kwolyin in the WA wheatbelt. The land, granite rocks and outcrops of this country are portrayed in a strong almost sculptural contemporary(way. Selected images from the exhibition)
  • November 22- December 15, 2006 - 'WRAPPED UP' Our end of year group exhibition featuring Gigi Hesterman , Angela McHarrie, Lindsay Harris , Di Cubitt , Silas Hobson ,Kirstine Sadler , Alana McVeigh , Estelle Dean, Berenice Rarig, Mel Dare & Tori Benz.
  • June 17th - July 6th,2007 - 'ALINED' - Lindsay Harris & Alana McVeigh Joint solo exhibitions by acclaimed Nyoongar contemporary painter Lindsay Harris and the ethereal Southern Ice porcelain vessels of ceramicist Alana McVeigh.
  • February 13th - March 9th, 2008 - 'mix' - A group exhibition featuring painting and sculpture by emerge artists Pierre Capponi, Di Cubitt, Estelle Dean, Lindsay Harris, Gigi Hesterman, Mason Kimber, Angela McHarrie, Alana McVeigh, Berenice Rarig, Felicity Sivewright and introducing Jonah Cacioppe, Sharon Dawes, Daniel Iley and Jake Snell .
  • November 5th - November 23rd, 2008 - 'Skin of the land (Boodja Ngoorl)' - Lindsay Harris. Following on from his previous two highly successful exhibitions, this contemporary Nyoongar artist's dynamic work will show why he was short-listed for the prestigious 25th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Indigenous Art Award 2008 and has just won the Town of Vincent Art Award 2008
  • 17th March - 1st April 2010 - 'Kaarlagup (Place of my home, my fire)' - Lindsay Harris This will be Nyoongar artist Lindsay Harris' fifth solo exhibition. Lindsay is an award winning artist who paints with resins, ochres and pigments on hemp about his country Kwolyin, a tiny now deserted siding town in the eastern West Australian wheatbelt.