Claire G. Coleman

Claire G. Coleman is a Noongar woman whose ancestral country is on the south coast of Western Australia. Her debut novel Terra Nullius, published in Australia and in the US, won a Norma K. Hemming Award and was shortlisted for the Stella Prize and the Aurealis Science Fiction Award among others. Her second novel is The Old Lie [2019] and she most recently published Lies, Damned Lies [2021]. She writes essay, verse and fiction unpacking the effect of colonisation on Indigenous lives. Her art writing has included catalogue essays for the Art Gallery of South Australia, the National Gallery of Victoria and the National Gallery of Australia among others and her art journalism has been published in Art Collector and NGV Magazine.

Wominjeka (Welcome). We acknowledge the Yaluk-ut Weelam as the traditional custodians of the land on which we meet. Yaluk-ut Weelam means ‘people of the river camp’ and is connected with the coastal land at the head of Port Phillip Bay, extending from the Werribee River to Mordialloc. The Yaluk-ut Weelam are part of the Boon Wurrung, one of the five major language groups of the greater Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to the land, their ancestors and their elders—past, present and to the future.