{"id":944788,"date":"2026-10-29T05:16:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T05:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/944788\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T05:16:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T05:16:12","slug":"three-artworks-to-see-at-turn-up-the-heat-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/944788\/","title":{"rendered":"Three artworks to see at Turn Up the Heat exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Western Australia’s Pilbara region, temperatures will soon soar past 35 degrees Celsius on most summer days.<\/p>\n

In response, Indigenous artists at South Hedland’s Spinifex Hill Studio are showing new works for the Turn Up the Heat exhibition, with artworks that represent the season change.<\/p>\n

Of the more than 60 artworks on display, studio team leader Eldride Edwards says these are the three artworks you should see:<\/p>\n

Flowers \u2014 Beryl Ponce\"A<\/p>\n

Flowers by Beryl Ponce. (Supplied: Spinifex Hill Studio)<\/p>\n

Beryl Ponce, a Kariyarra Elder in the Hedland community, fuses bright colours to represent the wildflowers that bloom in the summer heat.<\/p>\n

“They’re all native flowers out in the desert; she’s crammed them all up and put them all on one canvas,” Edwards says.<\/p>\n

“It’s showing the seasonal change with all the blossoms of flowers coming about during the summer and colours with the landscape.”<\/p>\n

Untitled \u2014 Maywokka (Mayiwalku) Chapman\"A<\/p>\n

Untitled by Maywokka (Mayiwalku) Chapman. (Supplied: Spinifex Hill Studio)<\/p>\n

“That’s one of my favourite paintings. I just love the colours; it has a deep dark colours and just showing that really red hot desert colour,” Edwards says.<\/p>\n

“But then the black circles are the waterholes throughout the desert, so it’s sort of like a map system showing where all the waterholes are in the landscape.”<\/p>\n

May’s daughter Doreen \u2014 also a renowned artist, who has been deaf since birth \u2014 started painting with May in 2007.<\/p>\n

“Her and Doreen [Chapman] always come in together, mother and daughter, and they sit side by side.”<\/p>\n

Untitled \u2014 Kelvin Allen\u00a0\"A<\/p>\n

Kelvin Allen’s goanna painting. (Supplied: Spinifex Hill Studio)<\/p>\n

Painting with a brush and sticks for the dots, Allen is known for his renditions of emus, kangaroos and goannas with similar colours.<\/p>\n

“He paints sort of like you can see like an x-ray, so he shows internal structures as well,” Edwards says.<\/p>\n

“We thought it was a perfect one for the exhibition because the goanna has to lay in the sun and recharge his body heat before he can move on.”<\/p>\n

Turn Up the Heat runs at Spinifex Hill Studio from October 30 until December 5.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In Western Australia’s Pilbara region, temperatures will soon soar past 35 degrees Celsius on most summer days. In…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":944789,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[449,458,459,64,63,460,134],"class_list":["post-944788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=944788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/944789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}