We Were Lost in Our Country

The large-scale painting known as the Ngurrara Canvas II is many things to many people. But to Australia’s Aboriginal Ngurrara people it is a map, made from memory, of a place where their ancestors lived for over sixty thousand years and a direct connection to their land. Through a past-and-present history of the canvas, WE WERE LOST IN OUR COUNTRY explores questions of personal agency, inherited trauma, and intergenerational transmission, opening up a complex dialogue between ancestors and descendants.