Lorraine Connelly-Northey grew up in Wadi Wadi and Wamba Wamba terrain, south of her mother’s Waradgerie Country. Rather than practising her people’s customary art of coil weaving with sedge grasses, the artist has forged a dramatic sculptural practice that suits her personal history and hybrid cultural identity. Her colossal installations refashion discarded post-industrial materials – the detritus of colonisation and consumerism – into works resonant with different cultural meanings.
