00:02This historic Pilbara town may look quiet, but inside its stone walls, local art thrives.
00:10Each year, an artist in residence spends a month at Cossack, 1,600 kilometres north of Perth.
00:16Pilbara-based artist Jenna Pickering making the most of her opportunity by collecting rusted tin for her meticulous oil paintings.
00:24The worst is when you lift it up and it's someone's home and you're like, I'm so sorry.
00:28I love anything with character, so anything that's rusty, so this tin, amazing.
00:35I also love natural things. It really depends who I'm painting.
00:38Like if I'm painting an incredible elder from this area, I'll probably go more of a natural, something amazing like
00:44a bit of bark or a bit of wood.
00:45She says the Art Awards and its residence program are invaluable to regional artists.
00:50How amazing as artists out here to have the chance to have our stuff in front of all of these
00:55amazing people
00:56from all over Australia and all over the world.
00:59Yeah, and it's so cool to get to meet all these people as well and just, yeah, and be a
01:03part of it.
01:04In the Awards' first week since opening, a third of the paintings were sold and admired by thousands more.
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