Locomotive Dreams
Locomotive Dreams captures the energy of Neurodiverse Artist Thom Roberts as he sees the world through a kaleidoscope lens. He identifies as the Country Link Express train and the Burj Khalifa tower in Dubai. People, transport and infrastructure systems are interpreted as colourful multiples. He has a passion for trains, travelling on them, their designs and he personifies them. He sees trains as people he knows, and people as trains.
Trains – Transport and infrastructure play an integral role in each of our daily life, especially so in the resource-rich Pilbara. Living amongst the world’s largest bulk export port with long trains, big ships and salt piles, we observe the iron ore-stained structures and road trains around us daily. As we experience and regard these vast infrastructures in and around the place we call home, Thom encourages us to reimagine these often visually mundane structures, discovering the relationships formed amongst our landscape that affirms our belonging. This exhibition offers the Port Hedland community a chance to discover the creative talents of professional artists living with a disability. The exhibition invites the surrounding community to reimagine how we establish belonging towards our place and environment. Living regionally pushes us to reconstruct and rethink the elements of home through kinship and connection.
Trains – Transport and infrastructure play an integral role in each of our daily life, especially so in the resource-rich Pilbara. Living amongst the world’s largest bulk export port with long trains, big ships and salt piles, we observe the iron ore-stained structures and road trains around us daily. As we experience and regard these vast infrastructures in and around the place we call home, Thom encourages us to reimagine these often visually mundane structures, discovering the relationships formed amongst our landscape that affirms our belonging. This exhibition offers the Port Hedland community a chance to discover the creative talents of professional artists living with a disability. The exhibition invites the surrounding community to reimagine how we establish belonging towards our place and environment. Living regionally pushes us to reconstruct and rethink the elements of home through kinship and connection.
