Dennis Golding, Warami Artist

Dennis Golding

Artist, Curator, Graphic Designer

Dennis Golding is a Kamilaroi/Gamilaraay man from the northwest of NSW and was born and raised in Sydney.

Working in a range of mixed media including painting, graphic design, photography and installation, Golding critiques the social, political and cultural representations of race and identity. His practice is drawn from his own experiences living in urban environments and through childhood memories.

Golding explores empowering notions of Indigenous cultural identity in which he challenges the categorical boundaries from both Indigenous and non-Indigenous experiences.

Artist Statement

The River Can Tell A Story

This artwork references the river of the Parramatta River. The river begins where it meets the ocean in Sydney Harbour and leads into surrounding catchments, creeks, and river veins.

The artwork shows reflections of the stars on water as a way of connecting stories of place between the land, sky and water.

The artist has used cultural motifs such as the circular patterns that reference meeting places and waterholes. These rivers hold significance to water life, particularly the Eels which is greatly connected to the storytelling of place.

The symbolism of land and people are connected to the riverways to acknowledge the traditional custodianship of the land and waters that we call Parramatta.