'Manggan (Auntie Elder)'
2016
61x61cm
Acrylic, Mica gold and plastic on canvas
Description:
This is an image of an anonymous elder auntie from my family showing
the typical casual winter clothing worn in my community by most elder aunties today.
Behind this figure are the multilayered symbol of rivers running from the body
signifying this auntie has strength of knowledge in the land.
2016
61x61cm
Acrylic, Mica gold and plastic on canvas
Description:
This is an image of an anonymous elder auntie from my family showing
the typical casual winter clothing worn in my community by most elder aunties today.
Behind this figure are the multilayered symbol of rivers running from the body
signifying this auntie has strength of knowledge in the land.
'Mirnu (Knowing)'
2016
60.5 x 40cm
Acrylic, Mica gold and plastic on canvas
Description:
From a triptych painting describing three brothers living in a First Nation community faced with living in 4th world conditions.
2016
60.5 x 40cm
Acrylic, Mica gold and plastic on canvas
Description:
From a triptych painting describing three brothers living in a First Nation community faced with living in 4th world conditions.
'Nhaguna (Watching)'
2016
60.5 x 40cm
Acrylic, Mica gold and plastic on canvas
Description:
From a triptych painting describing three brothers living in a First Nation community faced with the living in 4th world conditions.
2016
60.5 x 40cm
Acrylic, Mica gold and plastic on canvas
Description:
From a triptych painting describing three brothers living in a First Nation community faced with the living in 4th world conditions.
'Bindu (Quiet)'
2016
60.5 x 40cm
Acrylic, Mica gold and plastic on canvas
Description:
From a triptych painting describing three brothers living in a First Nation community faced with the living in 4th world conditions.
2016
60.5 x 40cm
Acrylic, Mica gold and plastic on canvas
Description:
From a triptych painting describing three brothers living in a First Nation community faced with the living in 4th world conditions.
'Madya (Waiting)'
May 2018
30x40cm
Acrylic and Mica Gold on Canvas
Description: Sometimes inter-racial interactions go wrong. In this painting I'm showing a woman waiting for her long late white bow.
May 2018
30x40cm
Acrylic and Mica Gold on Canvas
Description: Sometimes inter-racial interactions go wrong. In this painting I'm showing a woman waiting for her long late white bow.
'Winda (Tree)'
May 2018
30x40cm
Acrylic and Mica Gold on Canvas
Description: This painting is in honour of all the young mothers in First Nation communities who live in hope that their children will be treated better than they were themselves.
May 2018
30x40cm
Acrylic and Mica Gold on Canvas
Description: This painting is in honour of all the young mothers in First Nation communities who live in hope that their children will be treated better than they were themselves.
'Wadinya (Now)'
May 2018
90x120cm
Acrylic, Mica Gold and Plastic on Canvas
Description:
I wanted to paint about the two First Nation men folk who took it upon themselves to keep a car of the train free from trouble every night when I left from teaching at 7pm from Midland TAFE.
This was before there were any train security guards.
Midland train station sits cold behind the figure showing the yellow glow of the fluorescent lights and the grey concrete of the train platform.
Wadinya (Now) represents the anxiety and fear that First Nation people face everyday in violent situations that happens due to racist stereotypes. First Nation people either risk death in custody or on the street from on duty or plain clothed police officers or from train security guards.
May 2018
90x120cm
Acrylic, Mica Gold and Plastic on Canvas
Description:
I wanted to paint about the two First Nation men folk who took it upon themselves to keep a car of the train free from trouble every night when I left from teaching at 7pm from Midland TAFE.
This was before there were any train security guards.
Midland train station sits cold behind the figure showing the yellow glow of the fluorescent lights and the grey concrete of the train platform.
Wadinya (Now) represents the anxiety and fear that First Nation people face everyday in violent situations that happens due to racist stereotypes. First Nation people either risk death in custody or on the street from on duty or plain clothed police officers or from train security guards.
'Warul (Long Time)'
May 2018
30x40cm
Acrylic and Mica Gold on Canvas
Description: Many First Nation men who worked in WA were forced to take labour jobs that white labourers would never do.
I wanted to make a painting in honour of their struggle for equality.
'Dhabalanda (Promising)'
May 2018
90x120cm
Acrylic, Mica Gold and Plastic on Canvas
Description:
This painting reflects on the pressures and influences of major cities on First Nations children today.
Many First Nation parents have learned to take their children to experience their land and language as much as possible to help their children not to assimilated away from culture.
A mother holds her son who is posing with hip-hop hand gesture meaning 'peace'.
Symbols:
Spirits dancing in trees.
May 2018
90x120cm
Acrylic, Mica Gold and Plastic on Canvas
Description:
This painting reflects on the pressures and influences of major cities on First Nations children today.
Many First Nation parents have learned to take their children to experience their land and language as much as possible to help their children not to assimilated away from culture.
A mother holds her son who is posing with hip-hop hand gesture meaning 'peace'.
Symbols:
Spirits dancing in trees.
'Gula Gula (Very Close)'
May 2018
30x40cm
Acrylic and Mica Gold on Canvas
Description: This is a painting about those First Nation people who resist colonial cultural influence as much as possible.
May 2018
30x40cm
Acrylic and Mica Gold on Canvas
Description: This is a painting about those First Nation people who resist colonial cultural influence as much as possible.
'Guwaga (Talking)'
May 2018
30x40cm
Acrylic and Mica Gold on Canvas
Description: This painting is about a young woman facing the ridicule of others as a transvestite/transgender 'sister girl'. Symbols: Around her body is a river leading to her heart. Around her head is also the symbol of water ways.
'Guwaga (Talking)'
May 2018
30x40cm
Acrylic and Mica Gold on Canvas
Description: This painting is about a young woman facing the ridicule of others as a transvestite/transgender 'sister girl'. Symbols: Around her body is a river leading to her heart. Around her head is also the symbol of water ways.
'George Latham'
1997
Acrylic, red ochre on canvas
73 x 63cm
Description:
My grandmother’s older brother great Uncle George Latham helped raise me when
my maternal grandfather passed away when I was 6 years old.
He was a horse whisperer and could tame 4 horses at the same time.
1997
Acrylic, red ochre on canvas
73 x 63cm
Description:
My grandmother’s older brother great Uncle George Latham helped raise me when
my maternal grandfather passed away when I was 6 years old.
He was a horse whisperer and could tame 4 horses at the same time.
'Garda (Waking)'
May 2018
30x40cm
Acrylic and Mica Gold on Canvas
Description: This painting shows a young teenage boy waking up in the morning sun into the realization that he's gay.
Being inter-sectional was and still is difficult for First Nation youth.
May 2018
30x40cm
Acrylic and Mica Gold on Canvas
Description: This painting shows a young teenage boy waking up in the morning sun into the realization that he's gay.
Being inter-sectional was and still is difficult for First Nation youth.
'Wandangga (Winter)'
May 2018
30x40cm
Acrylic and Mica Gold on Canvas
Description:
This is a painting about a trans-gender man or 'brother-boy' contemplating his hoped for new life.
May 2018
30x40cm
Acrylic and Mica Gold on Canvas
Description:
This is a painting about a trans-gender man or 'brother-boy' contemplating his hoped for new life.
'Galadya (Sick)Trophy'
May 2018
100x120cm
Acrylic, Mica Gold and Plastic on Canvas
Description:
This painting reflects on the many domestic slaves that worked in white homes build on Wajuk Noongar country now known as Guildford and Midland.
The woman in the painting is a trophy servant. Possibly a close slave to a wealthy wife or young woman. Now that she is sick she becomes less of a trophy and more as a burden so the woman stands in between two Kurrajong trees with their medicine pods dropping close to her to try heal her with their medicine.
May 2018
100x120cm
Acrylic, Mica Gold and Plastic on Canvas
Description:
This painting reflects on the many domestic slaves that worked in white homes build on Wajuk Noongar country now known as Guildford and Midland.
The woman in the painting is a trophy servant. Possibly a close slave to a wealthy wife or young woman. Now that she is sick she becomes less of a trophy and more as a burden so the woman stands in between two Kurrajong trees with their medicine pods dropping close to her to try heal her with their medicine.
'Windhu (Wind)'
May 2018
30x40cm
Acrylic and Mica Gold on Canvas
Description:
This painting is dedicated to the hundreds of First Nation homeless women living in the
streets of Perth and surrounding cities during winter.
May 2018
30x40cm
Acrylic and Mica Gold on Canvas
Description:
This painting is dedicated to the hundreds of First Nation homeless women living in the
streets of Perth and surrounding cities during winter.
'Marugundi (Tomorrow)'
May 2018
30x40cm
Acrylic and Mica Gold on Canvas
Description:
This painting is about inter-sectional youth who are lesbian.
Symbols: Around her is the symbols for snake or jardi (goanna) skin.
May 2018
30x40cm
Acrylic and Mica Gold on Canvas
Description:
This painting is about inter-sectional youth who are lesbian.
Symbols: Around her is the symbols for snake or jardi (goanna) skin.
'Self Portrait: Gurugulaadyi (Glasses)
2014
120.4 x 100cm
Acrylic, red ochre and plastic on canvas
Description:
A self portrait of the artist holding her own glasses and a paintbrush.
Behind the figure is the flames of fever and above the cool hands of her ancestors who reach for her against the blue of the surrounding sky.
This painting shows the artist reflecting on her own life as a disabled woman with an incurable
disease known as Lipoedema also known as 'Painful Fat Syndrome'.
Dowling also suffers from a condition called Lymphadema
which causes her hands to swell stopping her from painting on occasions.
2014
120.4 x 100cm
Acrylic, red ochre and plastic on canvas
Description:
A self portrait of the artist holding her own glasses and a paintbrush.
Behind the figure is the flames of fever and above the cool hands of her ancestors who reach for her against the blue of the surrounding sky.
This painting shows the artist reflecting on her own life as a disabled woman with an incurable
disease known as Lipoedema also known as 'Painful Fat Syndrome'.
Dowling also suffers from a condition called Lymphadema
which causes her hands to swell stopping her from painting on occasions.