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
Last year the artists took themselves back their childhood growing up in Port Hedland. They created artworks which related to the theme for their exhibition ‘Before the Town got Big’, it gave them the opportunity to tell their stories about their history of Port Hedland, what it used to be like. The exhibition opened at the Courthouse Gallery in November 2010 and ran from the 23rd of October until Christmas and was a huge success! They sold many of their artworks and enjoyed telling people about their paintings.
