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Ezzard Flowers
Ezzard Flowers is a Wirlomin Minang Noongar from the Great Southern region of Western Australia. He was born on the United Aborigines Mission Gnowangerup in 1958. Ancestral country for the Flowers family is Wirlomin Minang country, now known as Wagyl Kaip Southern Noongar Region because of the Native Title consultations that have taken place throughout Noongar country in Western Australia. Ezzard is connected to Elizabeth (Bessy) Flowers, his Minang Noongar ancestor through his grandfather Clifford Flowers. In 2015 Ezzard was awarded the John Curtin medal at Curtin University in Western Australia. This award acknowledged Ezzard’s contribution to the ‘Koorah Coolingah (Children Long Time Ago)’ exhibition, a major arts project held in the regional town of Katanning in the Great Southern and which showcased a collection of Noongar drawings that had been discovered in the Herbert A. Mayer Collection at Colgate University, in Hamilton, New York. In 2005 Ezzard travelled to Colgate University to examine the 1940s’ and 1950s’ artwork of Noongar children from the Carrolup Native Settlement. The drawings held in the Colgate University Picker Art Gallery archive were in the process of conservation. Ezzard was able to tell Noongar stories of identity and belonging significant to the child drawings, particularly the experience of Noongar Stolen Generations. In recent years the drawings were returned to Curtin University in Perth, Western Australia.