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Balgo Hills Region - Photographic Tour

Balgo is a very remote community, with access either by the weekly mail plane or by a long drive on corrugated red sandy roads, that are often cut by flood waters in the wet season. The dominant colours in the landscape are the red of the sand hills, the blue of the clear skies, and the flashes of green from desert plants.

On other pages you can find information about:

Balgo (Wirrimanu) community
Balgo art and artists
Balgo artists at work (photographic tour)
Balgo country and culture
Balgo artists biographies

Balgo (Wirrimanu) Community and Art Centre

Balgo Pound - Looking south from Balgo community	In the Balgo Pound, in a burnt patch of country fired by the local residents
Balgo Art centre (on the right) and the recently completed Culture Centre (left)	Spinifex on hard red pebble ground - typical of the country near Balgo
Pet dingo asleep inside the art centre on a beautiful painting by Eubena	Arrival of the weekly mail plane at the Balgo air strip - formal dress required!
Balgo Church built of stone in the 1960s	The centre of Balgo community
The main store at Balgo, with new termite-resistant steel framed house being built behind.	Voting in November 2001 in the Federal election - the local community office was the polling office for voting.

All photographs above are by Martin Wardrop of Aboriginal Art Online and are copyright.