NGALAMBAY
Gallery
ABOUT NGALAMBAY
Ngalambay is a gallery and website set up for Aboriginal community
members to share their history and heritage in their own words.
Ngalambay is the Dharawal word meaning a ripple in water (made by
a rock or fish dropping/jumping into water). We hope this gallery will
help knowledge ripple out through the wider community, educating
people about the rich history and culture of Aboriginal people.
Our small gallery is located on the lands of the Gadigal in the inner
Sydney suburb of Alexandria, who have sung and spoken this land for
countless generations. We acknowledge the Gadigal and respect this
tradition by creating a place for Aboriginal voices to speak.
We welcome your stories. In this guide you can find out the different
kinds of displays that Ngalambay can host and the help that is
available to you if you need it.
Who are we?
Ngalambay Gallery is managed and supported by historians and other staff from the consultancy Coast History and Heritage, and is at the front of our office at Alexandria in inner Sydney. While the gallery is supported by Coast, our aim is to promote history, not ourselves. We can assist with our time, and we also have some financial assistance available to help with the costs of developing content and for exhibition launches at the gallery.
ABOUT THE LOGO
Ngalambay is a gallery and website set up for Aboriginal community
members to share their history and heritage in their own words.
Ngalambay is the Dharawal word meaning a ripple in water (made by
a rock or fish dropping/jumping into water). We hope this gallery will
help knowledge ripple out through the wider community, educating
people about the rich history and culture of Aboriginal people.
Our small gallery is located on the lands of the Gadigal in the inner
Sydney suburb of Alexandria, who have sung and spoken this land for
countless generations. We acknowledge the Gadigal and respect this
tradition by creating a place for Aboriginal voices to speak.
We welcome your stories. In this guide you can find out the different
kinds of displays that Ngalambay can host and the help that is
available to you if you need it.
Anything you create will be yours to keep and will only be used in
accordance with your wishes.
The Ngalambay logo was designed by Dharawal woman
Sophie Youngberry, who describes the concept:
"The idea of the design came from the merging of the word "ngalambay" into the concept of how history comes together. The top left lines symbolise different ripples. The overlapping then coming together around the centre circle symbolises a form of history or knowledge. The centre circle can also be carried up through the ripples to the surface of the water and depicts the stone or knowledge/history as a visual form. The contrast in colours from light to dark inside of the brown and orange "stone or knowledge" resembles a nucleus which in my mind relates to oral histories being passed through generations. There is no outline to identify the number of generations of knowledge it encompasses as it can be infinite"