Haunted House, Mt Weld Station

Art Centre

Independent Artist

Year

2022
Medium

Acrylic on canvas
Size

50 x 60

The 60s/70s the early days of the mustering house. Growing up sheep, bullocks, horse. Gathering up. And the first army Jeep they called Willy Jeep. Near the home Country side. Rock hole.

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Revealed 2023 Artist Michael Banks

Born

Leonora
Lives & Works

Ballajura, Perth

Banks is a Wongi man born and raised in the north-west of Laverton in Mulga Queen. He went to school with the old people, with his grandpop, learning the bush language, how to tell stories, how to make spears and boomerangs. Banks listened to what they said. When he was older, Banks worked on cattle stations in and around Mt Weld where he learnt to ride a horse by his uncles and rode around in an old army Willy Jeep chasing kangaroos. Banks is a self-taught visual artist currently based in Ballajura, Perth. His paintings are memories of his life, of his Country, inspired by his old people’s stories of the Dreamtime, and of how it used to be. Banks’ strength in colour harmonising allows for reminiscent landscapes, vibrant memories of Country, as well as haunting portraits.