Bridget Seaton and Laura Peden
ELEMENTAL
17-29 MAY 2022
Open Daily: Mon-Sun 10am-4pm
Opening: 6.30-8.30pm Friday 20 May 2022
Artist Talk: Bridget Seaton – PAINTING MEMORIES, 11am Sunday 22 May 2022
ELEMENTAL is an exhibition of expressive acrylic and mixed media paintings celebrating the natural landscape in urban and remote areas of Western Australia through colour, memory and feeling. Based in Perth, Bridget and Laura share a love and concern for Western Australia’s fragile ecology and ecosystems, especially those threatened by urbanisation, industry and climate change.
Bridget is a landscape artist and established arts educator who seeks to portray the Australian bush in its imperfect beauty. Spending time in wild places, both walking and painting in her sketchbook is an essential part of her practice. It enables her to commit places to memory and these memories fuel the paintings she creates back home in her studio. Her recent work explores painting a fluctuating experience of place, with shifting vantage points and the merging of multiple views.
Laura is an emerging artist whose work invites the viewer to take a closer look at the remnant pockets of bushland and natural vegetation close to urban areas. Further afield, Laura is fascinated by the rock formations of northern Australia. Her paintings tell stories about the impact of urbanisation, conservation and the resilience of nature.
www.laurapedenart.com
![ACROSS THE WAY
Martumili | Ninuku Arts | Papulankutja Artists | Tjarlirli and Kalkatjara Art | Yarliyil Arts | 28 August -13 September 2026
Curated by Artitja Fine Art Gallery, ACROSS THE WAY is an exhibition spanning thousands of kilometres and bringing together art from five remote Aboriginal-owned art centres throughout the Pilbara, Kimberley, Western Desert and Ngaanyatjarra Lands.
Wed-Sun 10am-4pm
@artitjafineartgallery
Image: Bugai Whyoulter
Wantili
Acrylic on Canvas, 122x92cm
Bugai always tells about Wantili, (Warnrtili, Canning Stock Route Well 25) because she grew up around Wantilili. Her family would travel between Wantili, Kaalpa, Juntu-juntu, Raarki, and Wuranu Wells along the Canning Stock Route. She paints around Wantili.
She saw whitefellas there for the first time, Canning mob when they were travelling up and down the stock route with the bullock. She was a young girl walking around at Wantili. Big mob of people they been walking around there. Canning and his drovers were travelling, making the road. They were running away from those whitefellas, watching them from a long distance. She was a
teenager when she was travelling around there with her four mothers and one daddy. They used to travel around in family groups, Bugai and Jakayu [Biljabu], and Jakayu’s nyupa (partner) Phillip Biljabu.”
Bugai Whyoulter, as translated by her grandson, Cyril Whyoulter](https://scontent-syd2-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.82787-15/798537796_18469408192114606_869931102181518568_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_e35_tt6&_nc_cat=103&ccb=7-5&_nc_sid=18de74&efg=eyJlZmdfdGFnIjoiQ0FST1VTRUxfSVRFTS5iZXN0X2ltYWdlX3VybGdlbi5DMyJ9&_nc_ohc=9uX8eN2KF7sQ7kNvwEXucWS&_nc_oc=AdrhNlTHBF2arP31xbgd5usBa_X7KniHv6nMgYpG15zWUyPZL9ViUew-E1jtHz900iPdpb0XOqPYwJR8QRkNgZH-&_nc_zt=23&_nc_ht=scontent-syd2-1.cdninstagram.com&edm=ANo9K5cEAAAA&_nc_gid=r88XlDrzMriYnHswkv7ItA&_nc_tpa=Q5bMBQKJ3WSHhsBx_9CpNzvVOS7AC9WAyTv3OukBm1emXVKk7ShfnB-xqnEN-b2EfFcjFYLUTCZWnOxf&oh=00_AQIbf295iUHkJ46ZwUxjNmkUK5xsHciF9Hn8k7mNZwAaUA&oe=6AAA3FD3)
