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Slag Heap Projects acknowledges the Wilyakali and Barkindji people, the traditional custodians of the lands, waters and skies within which our gallery and programs operate. We recognise that connection to culture and community is strong, and sovereignty has never been ceded. 

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Through our gallery and off-site programs, Slag Heap Projects’ advocates for Far West NSW artists by facilitating experimentation, place-based research and commercial engagement. Slag Heap Projects wants to understand increasingly complex cultural frictions by creating a space where art is a tool for inquiry.


Slag heap, Round Hill, Lake Pamamaroo, Stephen’s Creek, Wilyakali and Barkindji Country, 2021-23. Photo: Hester Lyon
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Spin Cycle 


6pm, 22nd February 2024 


Slag Heap Projects launched its 2024 program with a prompt, a washing machine performing its final cycle set against the Alan Whicker’s 1970 documentary detailing the totalising grip of the Barrier Industrial Union over the isolated outback town of Broken Hill: ‘The Walled City’. This performance was  first step in a process of consultation and collaboration for our inaugral 2024 exhibition, under|visible, which has asked artists to make work around our namesake, and the town’s most recognisable landmark the slag heap (or line of lode).

Images: Installation view, Spin cycle, Slag Heap Projects, Wilyakali Country, 22nd February 2024. Photos: Aimee Volkofsky. 



Slag Heap Projects x The Old Vic


Photographic printing workshop with rock pigments


10am - 1pm, 17th March 2024 


Slag Heap Projects partnered with our neighbours The Old Vic to host a demonstration and workshop of Graeme Armstrong’s new photographic printing process, using rock pigments.

Graeme who has been developing new 'carbon' transfer printing processes using Broken Hill minerals as pigment instead of the traditional black ink/dye. He demonstrated the process, and we got ot experience his self-made rock pigment treadmill crusher. You’ll be invited to supply a photograph to develop your own rock pigment image.

Graeme’s research and development has been supported by the Broken Hill City Art Gallery as part of the 2023/2024 Open Cut Commission.

This program is proudly supported by Foundation Broken Hill.


Top image: Graeme Armstrong, rock pigment experimentations, Broken Hill 2023/2024. Courtesy the artist. Bottom image: Artists partcipating in workshop at The Old Vic, 2024. Photo: Hester Lyon. 
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