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Pilbara Landscape Winner
Sponsor: City of Karratha
Prize: $8,000
Judge’s comments:
This aerial view of the Pilbara does so much more than simply taking a photograph from above. It shows the beautiful colours and patterns revealed after a cyclone, but also takes us closer, and what it is like to walk through these ravines and waterways. It helps us understand the importance of cyclonic rains that feed the landscape and the whole ecosystem as it travels inland, changing its shape and colour as it spreads out.
ARTWORK ID: 5063
CATEGORY: Pilbara Landscape
ARTIST STATEMENT:
"I'm a Yindjibarndi woman, and this painting is about our Country after the rain.
This year we had a big cyclone, and there was so much rain. When that happens, everything changes. The rivers and creeks come alive again, running full and strong, and the Country just fills up with colour. It's a beautiful time; everything is fresh, growing, and moving again. Our families can go out, go fishing, kids swimming, and we can sit together and enjoy that time on Country.
When there's been that much rain, the water stays for a long time. The rivers stay full, and it gives life to everything around it. You see it in the plants, in the grasses, in the way the land looks and feels.
I get a lot of inspiration when I'm flying over Country. When I look down from the plane and I know I'm coming over Cherritta Station, I can see my home. Seeing it from above, you really notice the patterns, the way the water moves through the land, and how the colours spread out.
I love the wildflowers that come after the rain. There's so many colours, but that bright yellow flower really stands out to me and I see it everywhere now. I've even got some growing in my yard that I look after and watch every day. The spinifex is so green too, covering the land, dotting the landscape everywhere you look.
This painting is about that the feeling when the rain has come, the Country is full, and everything is alive again."
MEDIUM: Acrylic and Pilbara Earth on canvas
ARTWORK DIMENSIONS (width x height): 915mm x 765mm
WEIGHT (approx): 0.8kg
ARTIST LOCATION: ROEBOURNE, WA
Pilbara Landscape Winner
Sponsor: City of Karratha
Prize: $8,000
Judge’s comments:
This aerial view of the Pilbara does so much more than simply taking a photograph from above. It shows the beautiful colours and patterns revealed after a cyclone, but also takes us closer, and what it is like to walk through these ravines and waterways. It helps us understand the importance of cyclonic rains that feed the landscape and the whole ecosystem as it travels inland, changing its shape and colour as it spreads out.
ARTWORK ID: 5063
CATEGORY: Pilbara Landscape
ARTIST STATEMENT:
"I'm a Yindjibarndi woman, and this painting is about our Country after the rain.
This year we had a big cyclone, and there was so much rain. When that happens, everything changes. The rivers and creeks come alive again, running full and strong, and the Country just fills up with colour. It's a beautiful time; everything is fresh, growing, and moving again. Our families can go out, go fishing, kids swimming, and we can sit together and enjoy that time on Country.
When there's been that much rain, the water stays for a long time. The rivers stay full, and it gives life to everything around it. You see it in the plants, in the grasses, in the way the land looks and feels.
I get a lot of inspiration when I'm flying over Country. When I look down from the plane and I know I'm coming over Cherritta Station, I can see my home. Seeing it from above, you really notice the patterns, the way the water moves through the land, and how the colours spread out.
I love the wildflowers that come after the rain. There's so many colours, but that bright yellow flower really stands out to me and I see it everywhere now. I've even got some growing in my yard that I look after and watch every day. The spinifex is so green too, covering the land, dotting the landscape everywhere you look.
This painting is about that the feeling when the rain has come, the Country is full, and everything is alive again."
MEDIUM: Acrylic and Pilbara Earth on canvas
ARTWORK DIMENSIONS (width x height): 915mm x 765mm
WEIGHT (approx): 0.8kg
ARTIST LOCATION: ROEBOURNE, WA