Beeralain and Rail Bidi Kep

Nandi Chinna and Jade Dolman

Title: Beeralain and Rail Bidi Kep

Artist/s:  Nandi Chinna and Jade Dolman

Year: 2024

Site: Bayswater Station

Location Detail: Artwork is integrated into landscape ribbon and seating, edging the garden beds and bus stops to the north of the Eastern station entry.

Medium: Etched stone

Description:

Jade Dolman is a Whadjuk/Balladong Nyoongar and Eastern Arrernte woman from Perth. She is a visual artist whose works are a contemporary continuation of traditional culture.

Nandi Chinna is a local writer and poet whose approach to community and place includes slow walking, deep listening, community workshops, oral histories, and archival research.

Nandi created several written pieces incorporating elements from poetry workshops completed at local schools with her own poems. The works express memories, experiences, and perceptions of Bayswater over time, and the rail line and station as a hub for meeting, leaving and returning.

Jade’s illustrated designs etched in stone reflect the local community culture and history and were created by listening to recordings of Nandi reading her poems, and responding to the subject, tone and movement of the words.

This unique collaboration of voice, poetry and art celebrates Bayswater, where river and lake systems, people and cultures converge.