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In 2021, IGO Ltd engaged the services of Artify to prepare an Art Procurement Framework to guide their approach to procuring artworks for the company’s head office in South Perth. IGO’s new office fitout presented an opportunity to embody and celebrate the company’s purpose, values and culture through the procurement of a carefully curated collection of artworks.

The artworks procured celebrated the communities they work with and provide an engaging and welcoming experience to the refurbishment.

April Pine’s sculpturral work, Geologians, references topographies of mining and exploration, and a hopeful message of people and community coming together. Comprising three volumes, each sculptural form references IGO’s three primary resources - Nickel, Copper, and Cobalt. Together they meld to form one united body, a continuous landscape.

Ningura Napurrula’s (dec) Women’s Story is an artwork centring Wirrulnga rock hole, a sacred women’s site recounted by the artist as a ‘borning place.’

Bugai Whyoulter’s Wangkakalu, celebrates Bugai’s ngurra (home country) which is characterised by large tuwa (sandhills) and is home to an ancestral jila. The term jila is used interchangeably to describe snakes and living water springs, both of which play a central role in Martu culture.