Ngaya (I am) – Museum of Sydney | 5 August – 17 November, 2024

Dates: 5 August 2024 to Sunday 17 November, 2024
Location: Corner Phillip and Bridge streets, Sydney, NSW 2000, Australia

Peter Waples-Crowe defines his five-minute video project ‘Ngaya (I am)’ as ‘a cut-and-paste, punked-up look at my Country’, a self-portrait of the artist as a queer Ngarigo person from the Snowy Mountains region of south-eastern New South Wales.

This captivating video project, which combines images of people and scenery with song, dance, and humour, delves into Waples-Crowe’s numerous identities. Waples-Crowe was adopted and raised in the Illawarra region on the south coast of New South Wales before reconnecting with his Ngarigo origin. The piece reintroduces the artist into the landscape from which he was separated. More broadly, it affirms the continuous presence of the Ngarigo people in the country that still holds their stories despite widespread Western iconography that would deny their existence, language.

‘Ngaya (I am)’ is on exhibit in the Museum of Sydney, coupled by historical pictures of the Snowy Mountains region from the State Archives collection.

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