
In 2008, FORM launched the Let's Get Started! program, offering painting workshops for Indigenous Artists living in South Hedland. Since then, the group has been coming together every month for week-long sessions with mentors Helen Ansell and Sara Barnes.
The Spinifex Hill collective is currently composed of 15 artists, creating beautiful, unique and accomplished work. They have already developed both a recognisable style as a collective, and distinct individual styles.
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.