Djinong Djina Boodja (Look at the Land I Have Travelled)

During his lifetime, Shane Pickett (1957-2010) was acclaimed as one of Western Australia’s most significant contemporary Aboriginal artists. Featuring 28 works from the most radical and significant phase of his career, Djinong Djina Boodja (Look at the Land I Have Travelled) is a major exhibition of Pickett’s work in the South West region of WA. Pickett’s paintings capture the transformations of the country near Perth in the south-west of Australia in ever-changing and innovative ways. Over the course of his three-decade career, Pickett developed a new visual language to represent the cornerstones of the culture of his Nyoongar people: the pathways of ancestors, traditional healing practices and places, and especially the six seasons used by the Nyoongar to divide the year.