Old Man Painter
15 aug
IN ASSOCIATION WITH SPINIFEX HILL STUDIO
19 Conacher Street
The Gardens
Phone +61 8 8981 6616
OPENING HOURS
Mon to Sat 10 am – 4 pm
Sun 10 am – 2 pm
“Doing these paintings is how I remember our old people. These pictures I’m showing you are from my memories. It’s a hard life in those days and we had to change a lot in this life.”
A lot of the time we didn’t get to decide where we went and why we had to leave our families. We would have to walk some other places, do another thing. When someone is dead and gone, you can’t always tell the story or call his name. I got all these old people up there in my mind. Our culture and language is strong up there too. Yeah, I have some worries. I think of some of my old people. We can’t forget them. The old people, the law and culture they put us through, my paintings are about remembering them now they passed away.
– NYAPARU (WILLIAM) GARDINER, Spinifex Hill Studio
IMAGE: Old People, 2017, acrylic on linen, 91.5 x 152 cm, Cat No 17-1149. Photo courtesy of Spinifex Hill Studio.
Exhibition catalogue
FORM WA and Spinifex Hill Studio have produced a beautiful catalogue for this exhibition, including a foreward by Lynda Dorrington, Executive Director of FORM WA and an essay by Greg Taylor.
Excerpt of the catalogue are shown below or click above to view the catalogue on ISSUU.
ABOVE: Old Man Painter, exhibition catalogue page excerpts, produced by FORM WA and Spinifex Hill Studio, 2020.
