Artist donates artwork to raise funds for cancer

A local Aboriginal artist has donated her Hedland Art Award-nominated artwork for auction at the Pink Ribbon Breakfast next month.

Spinifex Hill Artists’ Maggie Green’s piece, entitled Dam and valued at $2405, is based on her life at Myroodah Station, near Derby, where she was born.

“We go fishing and hunting here every weekend,” she said.

“We cook up fish and goanna, anything…we get frogs from the sand and eat them.”

According to FORM regional development manager Kate Antonas, Green’s artwork is nearly always based on her life on the station.

“I think she misses the life out there – she always talks about how her mum and dad used to take her fishing and hunting to spots on and near the station, this dam is one of those spots,” she said.

“Maggie worked on this painting a few days every week over a period of about eight weeks…although it is always hard to tear her away from her painting at the end of the day, she was relieved when she finally finished her last dot on the final circle.”

The painting will be up for auction at the Pink Ribbon Breakfast, held on October 26 at the All Seasons Hotel.

Tickets cost $50 and are available from today at the Well Women’s Centre and Courthouse Gallery.

The annual Pink Ribbon Breakfast is in its eighth year in Hedland, and has raised more than $100,000 in that time for the National Breast Cancer Foundation.

The breakfast is presented by the Well Women’s Centre and BHP Billiton, with support from the All Seasons Hotel and the North West Telegraph.