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Jimmy Pike’s Artlines: You call it desert, we used to live there
Jimmy Pike was a great story-teller. Touched with a lively sense of humour, his art depicts the dynamism of life in the desert: waterholes, the landscape, animals and plants, as well as Ngarrangkarni or Dreamtime stories, people, and modern technology. Jimmy Pike’s Artlines… was a selection of vibrant felt-tip pen drawings that brought the artist’s…
Jimmy Pike – Desert Designs 1981 – 1995
This exhibition told a unique story of the evolution of a remarkable body of works created by Jimmy Pike. Pike was born around 1940 in the Great Sandy desert, and as a young adult, worked in the Kimberley cattle industry. In 1980, he began his career as an artist, and through his art, he captured…