Pilbara Light Show 2022
Past Event
The Shire's inaugural Pilbara Light Show presented by BHP will present local Aboriginal Artwork by Martumili Artists in a way you've never seen it before.
How would you like to stand IN the artwork?
Thank you to our presenting partner BHP, and major sponsor BTP for joining us on this exciting event, it's going to be an affair to remember!
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Official Opening
Where: East Pilbara Arts Centre
When: 30th June, 2022
Time: 7pm - 9.30pm
Ongoing Event Details
Where: East Pilbara Arts Centre
When: 1st - 3rd July, 2022
Times:
| Thursday 30th June |
Friday 1st July |
Saturday 2nd July |
Sunday 3rd July |
| 7 PM |
6 PM |
6 PM |
6 PM |
| 7:45 PM |
7:30 PM |
7:30 PM |
7:30 PM |
| 8:30 PM |
8:30 PM |
8:30 PM |
8:30 PM |
Walyja Ngurra | Sohan Ariel Hayes & Ngamaru Bidu
Created by Perth-based media artist Sohan Ariel Hayes, and senior Martumili artist Ngamaru Bidu, Walyja Ngurra is an interactive, immersive experience of Western Desert Country. Drawn from the blazing landscapes that Martu artist Ngamaru Bidu paints, Walyja Ngurra bathes viewers in intense chromatic light inspired by the cultural and land management practices of Martu using waru (fire). Hayes combined high resolution images of Bidu’s fire paintings, the information she shared with him, and his own skills in digital animation to create a landscape in flux, energised and moving like the surface of the sun. The landscape of light created by Walyja Ngurra radiates with elemental power and unseen forces – it is ancient, ever evolving and filled with knowledge. Originally curated by Erin Coates on behalf of Fremantle Arts Centre, this is first time Walyja Ngurra has been exhibited and seen in the Pilbara.
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Coinciding with Pilbara Light Show presented by BHP, is a brand new exhibition that opens at Martumili on 30th June
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Waru (fire) | Martumili Artists & Kanyinirnpa Jukurrpa
Coinciding with this homecoming, Martumili Artists open their ‘Waru (fire)’ exhibition. Focused around a bush camp held in 2021, Martumili Artists and Kanyinirnpa Jukurrpa (KJ Rangers) have collaborated on a body of creative and cultural works that explore and demonstrate the importance of waru for Martu- featuring paintings, video works and archival documentation and artefacts.
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