Vivian (Nan Viv) Dwardinan Brockman Webb is a Dordenup Wardandi matriarchal Elder of the South West region of Western Australia, Wardan country. She has worked for many years to raise awareness of the importance of language and culture for future generations. In 2003, Nan Viv travelled with daughter Mitchella and French/Australian photographer Martine Perret to Paris to open the UNESCO decade of Indigenous languages. Nan Viv and Mitchella had the honour of leading all the other First Nations delegates.

Nan Viv has been making land art since she was a child always drawing in the sand and making animals from nuts and sticks. She now leads all sacred sand art ceremonies known as Bora. Nan Viv has also been a painter for 40 years she exhibited in many exhibitions, and her works are found in many private collections.

Over the past ten years, Aboriginal Australian Dwardinan Nan Viv Brockman Webb, Aboriginal Australian artist Waljin Mitchella Hutchins and Scottish/Australian Land Artist, Elaine Clocherty have collaborated on over 20 works together, spanning festivals, public art, and community engagement projects. This cross cultural collaboration, combines thousands of years of Wardandi bora ceremonial sand artwork and contemporary Ephemeral Site Specific Land Art, strengthening communities to connect with each other and become caretakers of our boodja (Earth). Their next project, Awakening, takes place from 29 – 31 July 2026 at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.