Early Life, Family and Training Born in 1957 in Quairading, Western Australia, Shane Pickett was a Whadjuk Noongar man whose roots reached deep into Balardong Country in the southwest. He was the son of Fred Pickett and Dorcas May Pickett, growing up in a landscape that would forever inform his vision. While his father encouraged him to work upon the family farm, the young man felt a different calling. He moved to Perth as a teenager,…