BE-LONGING-S Busselton, a digital projection Artist Craig Walsh with the Busselton community, 2013. Image courtesy FIVE.
In the heat and dust of Paraburdoo, a regional mining town some 1,536 kilometres north of Perth, tradies and miners are using public art to strike up a conversation around mental health.
Locals have worked with installation artist Alex Mickle since August last year to create Resilience, a large scale sculpture which symbolises the ruggedness of the landscape – among a diverse range of other art commissions – and quite literally promotes the resilience of a community challenged by a fly-in, fly-out (FIFO) work dynamic.
