Marribank, earlier known as Carrolup Native Settlement, is located in the Shire of Kojonup, Western Australia, approximately 30 kilometres (19 mi) north-west of Katanning.

Together with settlements at Moore River, Roelands and Gnowangerup, at one stage it formed part of a number of institutions that housed most of the Noongar people of the South West of Western Australia.

[6] In 1951 the native settlement was closed and the adults living there were 'dispersed'; teenage boys were kept back in order to establish Marribank Farm Training School.

[7] In the late 1940s and early 1950s, as Carrolup Native Settlement, the site became the setting of a Noongar (South-West Aboriginal) Art movement among the children resident there,[8] famous for its portrayals of local Western Australian scenes at sunset.

[9] The Carrolup artists included Revel Cooper, Reynold Hart, Mervyn Hill, Parnell Dempster, Claude Kelly, Micky Jackson and Barry Loo.

A number of prominent Western Australian Aboriginal Artists started their work at Marribank, and were the subject of two national travelling benchmark exhibitions curated by the Director of the Berndt Museum of Anthropology at The University of Western Australia, "Nyungar Landscapes" containing elements of the extensive Melvie, Stan and Gael Phillips Collection donated to the Berndt Museum and (with Noongar artist Sandra Hill) "Aboriginal Artists of the South-West", containing items from the Noel and Lily White Collection presented to the Museum by Noelene and Ross White.

Tina Hansen and Cora Farmer were funded by the Aboriginal Arts Board of the Australia Council to work towards establishing a Cultural Centre at Marribank/Carrolup.

Copies of these and related materials, including photographs, manuscripts and press clippings, were lodged with the Cultural Centre, which was funded by the Australian Bicentennial Authority, and opened in 1988.

Tina Hansen and Cora Farmer learnt, while they were on placement with the Museum, collections management skills, display techniques, and photographic and videographic processes.

The first exhibition, in one room of the Old Boys' Dormitory, traced the history of Carrolup Native Settlement, as it was known, and the emergence of the "bush landscape" school of art there.