Sharyn Egan is a Noongar woman who, at the age of three, was taken from her family to New Norcia Mission where she remained until the age of thirteen. She never saw her parents again. Over the past ten years, Sharyn has participated in many exhibitions both as an artist and a curator. Her artwork is included in collections at the National Museum in Canberra, the Berndt Museum of Anthropology in Western Australia and a number of local councils in and around Perth. Sharyn also works as an art lecturer at a TAFE college south of Perth teaching in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural arts program.