Sharyn Egan didn’t fully embrace her lifelong dream to be an artist until her 38th year.

The indigenous painter, sculptor and collector, who has an installation featured in the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts’ latest exhibition ‘When the Sky Fell: Legacies of the 1967 Referendum’, says she was always fascinated by drawing but had been discouraged to entertain her passion from an early age.

Ms Egan was taken from her family in the early 1960s, aged three. He new home was the New Norcia Mission where, despite not having access to drawing materials, she would draw in the sand with sticks and on concrete with the crumbled remains of bricks, or anything she could find to make a mark.

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