“Rockpools”
Katie West
5 July → 30 Aug 2025
Gallery
Opening Celebration, 5 July, 6 – 8 am
West Space presents Rockpools, a new exhibition by Yindjibarndi artist Katie West.
Working from Noongar Ballardong Country in Western Australia, West’s practice is defined by experiments in a ‘custodial ethic’, grounded in the understanding that the health of human society and Country mirror one another.
Realised across photography, installation and sound transmitted via radio, Rockpools examines the entanglement of industry and Aboriginal kinships through the artists' position as a Stolen Generations descendant, reconnecting with Country and practicing custodianship through creative practice.
Katie West: Rockpools is presented as part of 2025 National NAIDOC Week, The Next Generation: Strength, Vision, Legacy.
Katie West is a Yindjibarndi woman who has lived her life in Noongar Yued and Noongar Whadjuk countries. West is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice is shaped by her family history, studies in sociology and work experience in the area of Indigenous health.
