Juluwarlu ArtGroup

Yindjibarndi community members asked for an art group of their own in 2016, and Juluwarlu now supports more than thirty artists working from Roebourne and the surrounding Pilbara country — mostly acrylic on canvas, but also carved wooden boards, scratchboard, fibre work and jewellery, each piece carrying language and story from the Yindjibarndi kinship system and seasonal calendar. The art group sits inside a larger corporation whose work spans language preservation, archiving and cultural mapping, but its public-facing shopfront is the Ganalili Centre, set in Roebourne's old Victoria Hotel on Roe Street, which doubles as the town's visitor centre, a café and a gallery of permanent exhibitions on Yindjibarndi country and family. It's open daily — Monday to Saturday 9am to 5pm and Sunday 9am to 2pm through the cooler months, shorter hours over summer — making it one of the more consistently accessible Aboriginal art centres in the Pilbara, and a natural stop for travellers passing through Roebourne on the North West Coastal Highway.