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.

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

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Exhibitions
Workshops
Public Programs

Projects that are realised at our gallery space in Broken Hill, Wilyakali Country. These projects offer artists vital curatorial support, professional development and commercial engagement.

Research

Walking Excursions
Field Trips
Community Partnerships

Programs facilitated outside the gallery space in partnership with community and community groups. These projects prioritise place-based research and experimentation.

Slag Heap Projects is an experiment.

Our strategies are a genuine attempt at fostering cross-community understanding and connection.

Our values guide our creative facilitation of this process:

caring for place | witnessing | listening | love and intersectionality | sharing | slow and long relationships and projects | navigating the illusion of false energetics | advocating for self, other and the environment autonomy of self | connection to Country | being in relationship to ecosystems | acknowledging difference | celebrating creative conflict that birth ideas | fostering creative exchange | honouring Indigenous wisdom | relatedness

Stephen’s Creek, 2022. Wilyakali Country. Photo: Hester Lyon. Imperial Lake, 2023. Wilyakali Country. Photo: Verity Nunan