art & culture Mossenson Galleries has displayed the very best Indigenous artists for many years in Subiaco, and a new exhibition will showcase the work of Shane Pickett, one of owner Di Mossenson’s favourite artists.
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Country WORDS | Gail Williams.
FOR ALMOST A decade in the early part of this century, many Subiaco residents went about their daily routines completely unaware there was a West Australian cultural icon working in their midst. Every morning Shane Pickett 34
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– one of the greatest Aboriginal artists of his time – would quietly slip into Mossenson Galleries during his stint as artist-in-residence to splash colour over canvas producing breathtaking works illustrating his incredible connection to country and which now feature in galleries and collections all around the world. For the last eight years of his life, this humble, dignified artist whose Noongar name was Meeyakba, or ‘soft light of the moon,’ was in his happy place behind a curtain in the former Volvo workshop in Hay
