Front cover: Untitled Sidney James Moody, 2025
Acrylic on Canvas
4 April–13 June 2025
For many, Spinifex Hill Studio is a space of respite and restoration as well as creation. It’s where the artists come together with their people and community, to focus on sharing culture and experience through art.
These paintings showcase new mediums and directions. Demonstrating resilience, hope, growth and renewal, the artists of Healing celebrate the Studio as a place of safety as well as work.
Artists
Ruby Djikarra Alderton
Gladys Kuru Bidu
Sydney Baumgarten
Willarra Barker
Selena Brown
Rylene (Raylene) Button Gordon
Doreen Chapman
Maywokka Chapman
David Clarke
Rhys Dhalukmurru McLean
Zenith Kane Gardiner
Gloria
Rekeshia Goodwin
Maggie Green
Olive Joseph
Kiahni Lewis
Sally Mack
Mulyatingki (Muljadingi) Marney
Kimberley McKie
Ellen Maralwuy McLean
Sidney James Moody
Nyangulya Katie Nalgood
Beryl Ponce
Antahlia (Tahlia) Thomas
Daisy Tinker
Lena Willalang
Untitled Gloria
Untitled Gloria
Untitled Gloria 2020 Acrylic on Linen 100 x
$4,774
Untitled
Untitled
Untitled Beryl Ponce 2022
Acrylic on Canvas
Untitled Beryl Ponce 2022
Acrylic on Canvas
Marney 2023
51 x 51 cm
23-550
$1,162
Chapman 2023
56 x 56 cm
23-657
$1,015
Untitled Mulyatingki (Muljadingi)
Acrylic on Canvas
Untitled Maywokka (Mayiwalku)
Acrylic on Canvas
Maywokka (Mayiwalku) Chapman
2025
Acrylic on Linen
30.5 x 45.5 cm
25-64
$420
2025
Acrylic on Linen
30.5 x 40.5 cm
25-65
$420
Mulunyjarra, Juturrpa, Big mob water
Maywokka (Mayiwalku) Chapman
Mulunyjarra, Juturrpa, Big mob water
Ngurra (Home Country, Camp) Maywokka (Mayiwalku) Chapman
Acrylic on Canvas
2023
45.5 x 45.5 cm 23-903
Dancing Brolga
Rhys Dhalukmurru McLean
Acrylic on Canvas
$203
Gum Tree and Kuntal (Edible botanical gum otherwise known as Sugar Bag)
Maggie Green 2024
Acrylic on Canvas
30.5 x 30.5 cm 24-798
$315
Maggie Green 2025
Acrylic on Canvas 76 x 76 cm
$2,030
Kunmunya, Myroodah Station
Myroodah
Kunmunya, Myroodah Station
$1,365
World of bioluminescence
Rekeshia Goodwin
2024
Acrylic on Canvas
40.5 x 40.5 cm
24-842
$217
Mental Health Awareness
Rekeshia Goodwin
2025
Acrylic on Canvas
35.5 x 61 cm
25-88
$287
Healing
Rekeshia Goodwin
Acrylic on Canvas
x 61 cm
$588
Colours of home
Rekeshia Goodwin 2025
Acrylic on Canvas
30.5 x 35.5 cm
$147
Untitled Rylene (Raylene) Button Gordon
Acrylic on Canvas
x
Untitled Rylene (Raylene) Button Gordon
Acrylic on Canvas
x
Turtle laying season
Olive Joseph 2024
Acrylic on Canvas
30.5 x 30.5 cm 24-837
$273
Salmon Olive Joseph 2024
Acrylic on Canvas
30.5 x 30.5 cm 24-940
$273
35.5 x 56 cm 24-851
$413
45.5 x 45.5 cm 24-927
$413
Sandfire
Lena Willalang 2024
Acrylic on Canvas
Untitled Lena Willalang 2024
Acrylic on Canvas
25-93
$413
Untitled Lena Willalang
Acrylic on Canvas
30.5 x 30.5 cm
$189
Untitled Lena Willalang
Acrylic on Linen
45.5 x 45.5 cm
Untitled Zenith Kane Gardiner 2024
Acrylic on Canvas 56 x 56 cm 24-894
$693
45.5
45.5 cm 24-926
$518
35.5 x 35.5 cm 25-96
$322
Untitled Zenith Kane Gardiner
Acrylic on Canvas
x
Two Kangaroo Zenith Kane Gardiner 2025
Acrylic on Linen
Katie Nalgood
on Canvas
x 40.5 cm
Robin Nyangulya Katie Nalgood
on Canvas
x 40.5 cm
Little Red Robin
Nyangulya Katie Nalgood
Acrylic on Canvas
35.5 x 35.5 cm
$742
Little Robin Nyangulya Katie Nalgood
Acrylic on Canvas
35.5 x 35.5 cm
$742
35.5 x 35.5 cm 24-932
$742
Red Capped Robin Nyangulya Katie Nalgood 2024
Acrylic on Canvas
Magpie-Lark
Nyangulya Katie Nalgood
Seven Sisters
Gladys Kuru Bidu
Acrylic on Canvas
x 76 cm
Untitled Gladys Kuru Bidu
2024Acrylic on Canvas
x 35.5 cm
Untitled Antahlia (Tahlia) Thomas
$322
Untitled Daisy Tinker 2025
Acrylic on Canvas
35.5 x 35.5 cm 25-12
$405.72
Untitled Daisy Tinker 2025
Acrylic on Canvas
35.5 x 35.5 cm 25-44
Acrylic on Canvas
35.5 x 35.5 cm 25-83 $371
Acrylic on Canvas
40.5 x 40.5 cm
Acrylic on Linen
30.5 x 45.5 cm 25-52
$371
Little Duck Doreen Chapman
Duck in the bush Doreen Chapman
Bush Turkey Doreen Chapman
Flowers
Doreen Chapman
2025
Acrylic on Canvas
30.5 x 45.5 cm
25-46
$371
Doreen Chapman
2025
Acrylic on Linen
35.5 x 35.5 cm
25-90
$371
Boab Tree
Big Car Doreen Chapman 2025
Acrylic on Canvas
30.5 x 40.5 cm
25-13
$371
Going Bush Doreen Chapman 2025
Acrylic on Canvas
30.5 x 30.5 cm
Mother of Pearl Church - Beagle Bay
David Clarke
Acrylic on Canvas
$168
$168
25-48
$126
Cannonball Jellyfish
Sydney Baumgarten
Acrylic on Canvas
35.5 x 35.5 cm
Camouflage Snake
Sydney Baumgarten
Acrylic on Canvas
30.5 x 30.5 cm
Untitled Sidney James Moody 2025 Acrylic on Canvas
101.5 x 101.5 cm 25-19
$1,589
Untitled
Sidney James Moody 2025
Acrylic on Canvas
$721
$231
Untitled Sidney James Moody
Acrylic on Canvas 30.5 x 40.5 cm
Untitled Sidney James Moody
Acrylic on Canvas
45.5 x 45.5 cm
Untitled Selena Brown 2025
Acrylic on Canvas 45.5 x 45.5 cm
Goorlil Family
Kiahni Lewis
Acrylic on Canvas
Barni Mothers
Kiahni Lewis
Acrylic on Canvas
Wakun (Mullet)
Ruby Djikarra Alderton
Acrylic on Canvas
30.5 x 30.5 cm
$406
Untitled Kimberley McKie
Acrylic on Canvas
30.5 x 30.5 cm
Untitled
Lorna Dawson 2025
Acrylic on Canvas
30.5 x 56 cm
$623
Untitled Lorna Dawson 2025
Acrylic on Canvas 30.5 x 56 cm
$623
FORM Building a State of Creativity and Spinifex Hill Studio
For nearly two decades, cultural organisation FORM Building a State of Creativity has worked to support the creative community of Western Australia’s remote Pilbara region. In 2008, realising there was no established support for Aboriginal artists living in the Hedland area, FORM started providing materials, art sessions and mentoring opportunities specifically so that local artists could paint together and develop their practices. This group of artists were the foundation of the collective that now paints at Spinifex Hill Studio, one of Australia’s most dynamic art centres, and the only Aboriginal art collective in the wider Hedland area.
In 2014, with the support of Principal Partner BHP, FORM established the Studio’s permanent home in South Hedland. This is essentially FORM’s base in the Pilbara, and the Studio’s Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal support and management personnel are part of the FORM team. From Monday to Friday the Studio opens to facilitate the practices of a core group of around twenty artists
daily, however around a hundred artists are associated with the Studio and will paint there when in town. With a focus on acrylic painting, artists are given professional support in the preparation, creation and documentation of artwork.
They are also given transport to and from the studio, lunch, and the opportunity to work with studio staff in refining their paintings for exhibitions, awards, markets and other professional opportunities.
Artists regularly participate in major national exhibitions and events, and are represented in national collections including the Art Gallery of South Australia, The Art Gallery of Western Australia, Curtin University, Flinders University Art Museum, the Janet Holmes à Court Collection, the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, and the Western Australian Museum.
The aim has been to make the Studio a safe, holistic and dynamic environment for artists, and it has grown into an important cultural and community place
for South Hedland and the wider Pilbara region. It is relatively unique in Australia as an urban-based art centre representing Aboriginal artists from numerous cultural backgrounds and language groups; there is no dominant ‘house style,’ rather the Studio supports an eclectic range of art practices in recognition of the diversity of Indigenous experience.
Many artists have been able to build esteem and pride through their art making, gain confidence to share stories in a culturally appropriate way, travel outside their home region to attend exhibitions and art fairs, and create new income streams for themselves and their families.
Most importantly, the Studio has supported the artists in articulating their culture to audiences around Australia and the world, helping build the reputation of the Pilbara as a dynamic cultural and artistic artmaking region.
Spinifex Hill Studio is an initiative of FORM Building a State of Creativity. The Studio is supported by its Principal Partner BHP, the Federal Government’s Indigenous Visual Arts Industry Support (IVAIS) program, and Pilbara Ports. FORM is supported by the Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries Arts Organisation Investment program.
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