Artist: Sharyn Egan
Year of Work:
Location: Department of Fire and Emergency Services, 234 Jull Street, Armadale
Asset Type: Mural
Provenance: City of Armadale
Description:
Sharyn Egan is a Noongar woman who began creating art at the age of 37, which led to her enrolling in a Diploma of Fine Arts at the Claremont School of Art in Perth. She completed this course in 1998 and enrolled in the Associate Degree in Contemporary Aboriginal Art at Curtin University which she completed in 2000. In 2001 she was awarded a Bachelor of Arts (Arts) from Curtin University. She has also been awarded a Certificate IV in Training and Education in 2011.
The themes of Sharyn’s work are informed by the experiences of her life as a Noongar woman. Sharyn works in a variety of mediums including painting, sculpture and woven forms using traditional and contemporary fibres. Her woven works include traditionally styled contemporary forms and baskets, as well as sculptural forms often based on flora and fauna that have totemic significance for the Noongar people.
Her works of oils, natural ochres, resins and acrylics on canvas as well as natural fibre woven sculptures are informed by her experience growing up at New Norcia and comments upon the associated trauma, emotions and a deep sense of loss and displacement experienced by Aboriginal people.
Image Source Perth Hills Armadale