Clouds for Mountains
Anita Phillips
Clouds for Mountains is a body of work by Western Australian artist Anita Phillips, made in response to a storm front across the Cheela Plains in the Pilbara.
Flooded roads confined her to camp, but from a nearby hilltop she painted and drew as weather moved across the landscape. The works focus on the vast Pilbara sky—dense cloud forms over red earth transformed by rain.
The clouds become the central subject, holding both the scale of the landscape and the stillness of observation. For Phillips, they are “stories in themselves,” carrying the movement of weather and the experience of solitude in remote country.
Exhibition opens on Friday 1st of may and will run until Sunday 10th of May open Tue-Sun from 10-4pm
Flooded roads confined her to camp, but from a nearby hilltop she painted and drew as weather moved across the landscape. The works focus on the vast Pilbara sky—dense cloud forms over red earth transformed by rain.
The clouds become the central subject, holding both the scale of the landscape and the stillness of observation. For Phillips, they are “stories in themselves,” carrying the movement of weather and the experience of solitude in remote country.
Exhibition opens on Friday 1st of may and will run until Sunday 10th of May open Tue-Sun from 10-4pm