Perth Hills

Distinguished and Famous people from Perth Hills

📚 Katharine Susannah Prichard

Katharine Susannah Prichard made Greenmount her permanent home after marrying Hugo Throssell in 1919. There she continued a writing career that examined labour, class and Australian society, alongside sustained political activism. Her work included Working Bullocks and Coonardoo. The house later became the KSP Writers’ Centre, preserving her setting while giving other writers somewhere to work. That continuing use makes the local legacy unusually practical: a place where one author wrote became a place supporting many others. Her public convictions also made her a controversial figure, and remain part of understanding the books and their times.

🖌️ Robert Juniper

Robert Juniper made Darlington a long-term home and working place within a career shaped by Western Australian landscapes. In 1959 he began building a rammed-earth house using materials largely drawn from the site. Around the same period, texture and earth colours became increasingly important in his painting. The relationship between house, ground and image gives the hills connection a particular character: the artist was literally building with the landscape as well as representing it. His work moved through different approaches to abstraction while retaining a strong feeling for the forms and surfaces of the west.