Sam Gollan

Sam is a Ngarrindjeri and Kaurna women
(Adelaide, South Australia), and resides in Adelaide.

PAINTING TITLE: “My beautiful Star” Sam was laying on the grass, looking up at the stars, and as she focused looking deeply though the stars, this is what she then painted Acrylic on stretched canvas Size: 45 x 45cm Photo shows Sam in the Glenelg Art Gallery with her painting, March 2018

PAINTING TITLE: “Protector of Family” Sam’s animal totem is the Perentie (Goanna). The Perentie (Varanus giganteus) is the largest monitor lizard or goanna native to Australia, and the fourth-largest living lizard on earth, reaching lengths of 2 meters or more and have large underground tunnels. This is a portrait of Sam as her Totem, a giant Goanna, who is guarding her community. Acrylic on stretched canvas Size: 100 x 100cm

PAINTING TITLE: “Circle of Life” Acrylic on stretched canvas Size: 45 x 45cm Photo shows Sam in the Glenelg Art Gallery with her painting, March 2018

On behalf of the Gallery we firstly acknowledge the land now known as Australia belonged to a Nation of People, widely sophisticated, Aboriginal people of Culture, With Gratitude to our Elders past, present and emerging, the Country's ancient Cultural heritage. Always Was, Always Will Be, Aboriginal Land.
We hope that by sharing the Stories of the Artworks more attention is paid to the land supporting us through the emmense Generational Knowledge of this Country Aboriginal people have.