AUGUST
Spinifex Hill Artists and Martumili Artists
pujiman Exhibition Opening Thursday, 23 August 6.30PM MEMBERS PREVIEW 7PM EXHIBITION OPENING FREE EVENT 7PM opening by Ben Wyatt MLA; State Treasurer and Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Finance, Energy and Edgar Basto, ‘BHP Asset President, Western Australia Iron Ore’ and Welcome to Country by Barry McGuire. RSVP to rsvp@form.net.au
Old stories, new voices; Culture, Country and creativity passed down through generations and translated into animation, film and exciting new mediums. Collaborative exhibition Pujiman, unites artists from two of the Pilbara’s most dynamic Aboriginal art centres, Spinifex Hill Artists and Martumili Artists, and celebrates the sharing of knowledge. Pujiman, which means bush or desert born and dwelling, is the creative culmination of a two year collaboration between the art centres and includes work from more than twenty artists in the mediums of animation, filmmaking, drawing and acrylic painting. This exhibition reveals the work and knowledge of some of the Pilbara’s senior pujiman artists, and introduces a new generation of emerging artists, informed and inspired by their predecessors.
Wilarra, May Wokka Chapman and Mulyatingki Marney, acrylic on linen, 125 x 300cm. Image courtesy of Martumili Artists.