Spinifex Hill Artists are an art centre based out of Port Hedland, on the northern coast of Western Australia’s remote Pilbara region. A young art centre, Spinifex Hill Artists have been painting together since 2008 and their work is rich, joyful and bright. They paint about stories. These stories do not have a neat beginning, middle and end, each running smoothly from one another, but are told from all angles, all viewpoints, all moments in time, and many places. The stories of Spinifex Hill Artists sift through the visible layers of the world we see in front of us to reveal something much more intricate and important: about life, history, culture and the artists’ close and complex relationship with country. The artists sell their work through the Courthouse Gallery, 16 Edgar Street, Port Hedland WA (P. (08) 9173 1064 E. mail@courthousegallery.com.au).
Please arrange a time to visit the Spinifex Hill Artists at their studio in the Hedland Aboriginal Church of Christ, corner Kennedy Street and Cottier Drive, South Hedland.
Open Monday to Thursday 9.30am to 3.00pm
Phone 0457422875 or email karina@form.net.au for more details or visit www.courthousegallery.com.au
Esther Quintal standing proudly in the Courthouse Gallery shop with her submission to the 2011 Hedland Art Awards ‘Pilbara Migrating Turtles’.