Carly Le Cerf, Pilbara Flight, 2021. Oil and encaustic wax on board. Courtesy: the artist and New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale.

Following a recent excursion to the Pilbara region, West Australian artist Carly Le Cerf will exhibit Big Country- Paintings of The Pilbara at NERAM in her first major museum exhibition. The works in the exhibition are alive with colour movement, mirroring the awesome spectacle of the land belonging to the Banjima people. Le Cerf’s employment of spontaneous texture, carving and layering of encaustic wax techniques capture the vast mineral deposits; burnt red earth and dusty pink skies of the Pilbara landscape with such clarity that only a lived experience could supply.

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