Blowing Fence / past / Port Hedland / 07.14 The Pilbara

Mike Hewson: Blowing Fence I - Port Hedland, Western Australia

Blowing Fence I 2014

Dimensions vary
Digital print on vinyl mesh, temporary fence system
Port Hedland, Western Australia

Mike Hewson: (Installation View) - Port Hedland, Western Australia

(Installation View) 2014

Dimensions vary
Digital print on vinyl mesh, temporary fence system
Port Hedland, Western Australia

Mike Hewson: Blowing Fence II - Port Hedland, Western Australia

Blowing Fence II 2014

Dimensions vary
Digital print on vinyl mesh, temporary fence system
Port Hedland, Western Australia

Mike Hewson: (Installation View) - Port Hedland, Western Australia

(Installation View) 2014

Dimensions vary
Digital print on vinyl mesh, temporary fence system
Port Hedland, Western Australia

Mike Hewson: Blowing Fence III - Port Hedland, Western Australia

Blowing Fence III 2014

Dimensions vary
Digital print on vinyl mesh, temporary fence system
Port Hedland, Western Australia

Mike Hewson: (Installation View) - Port Hedland, Western Australia

(Installation View) 2014

Dimensions vary
Digital print on vinyl mesh, temporary fence system
Port Hedland, Western Australia

Mike Hewson: (Installation View) - Port Hedland, Western Australia

(Installation View) 2014

Dimensions vary
Digital print on vinyl mesh, temporary fence system
Port Hedland, Western Australia

Mike Hewson: (Installation View) - Port Hedland, Western Australia

(Installation View) 2014

Dimensions vary
Digital print on vinyl mesh, temporary fence system
Port Hedland, Western Australia

Info

The "Blowing Fence" project unoffically tours some fabric around a series of construction sites in Port Hedland. Hedland (pop. 14,000) is the second largest town in the Pilbara Region and primarily operates as a port offloading facility for the Western Australia's mining industry. It is by tonnage the busiest port in Australia. The iron-ore export rush to China in the late 00's and early 10's caused an insane demand for mining infrastructure expansion and hence worker housing (a housing bubble that has since popped). This generated rapid development of enormous proportions for such a small town. The entire town in the middle of nowhere was under construction, and all it's people worked in construction. Part of a collaboration with Elisa Trifunoski.