Photographers Peter Eastway, Christian Fletcher, Tony Hewitt, Les Walkling and Filmmaker Michael Fletcher travelled with a group of students throughout the northern Pilbara, including Port Hedland, Dampier Archipelago, Pardoo Station, and Marble Bar.
Larry Mitchell is a self-taught artist who grew up in Northampton, on the midwest coast of Australia. It is here he developed an interest in the coastal environment. 20 years on he is Western Australia’s most regarded large scale realist painters, capturing natural icons along the coast from Geraldton to the Kimberley. Mitchell’s aim “is not only to record, but to create a yearning for what might be lost”.
Larry Mitchell is a highly collectable artist. He has won many art awards and prizes, has exhibited internationally and has work in collections including Barings Bank (London), the Weld Club Collection, Rupert Murdoch’s collection and the Art Gallery of Western Australia.
In 2011 Larry completed a comprehensive body of work which captures the remarkable diversity of the expansive outback region known as the Pilbara. From climate-bleached coastal islands to rangy hills trailing through inland and desert country, this collection spans both epic vistas and intimate details.
