Kent

Distinguished and Famous people from Kent

🎨 Evoca1

The artist known as Evoca1 brought an unmistakable public artwork to Pingrup in 2018. His murals cover three grain silos and draw their subjects from the district itself: Merino sheep, a cattle dog, the races and a tractor modelled on one in the town. Working from a boom lift, he spent 15 days and used 230 litres of paint on the project, contending with wind and rain along the way. Local farming life supplied the subject; the silos supplied a decidedly generous canvas.

🌾 John Hassell

Pastoralist John Hassell appears in the Shire of Kent’s history through a specific landholding: a lease of 2,000 acres around Cairlocup Lagoon in 1873. That places him in the district’s pastoral story before Nyabing and Pingrup were gazetted as towns. His lease belonged to the early expansion of pastoralism, a phase of colonial land use that preceded the railway settlements and later local government institutions.