Career
Combining his deep knowledge and concern for Nyoongar culture with a confident and individual style of gestural abstraction, Pickett created paintings that resonated with a profound but subtle immediacy. Balancing innovation with tradition, modernity with an ancient spirituality, Pickett created a complex visual metaphor for the persistence of Nyoongar culture against the colonising tide of modernity. He has exhibited in every state and territory in Australia, as well as in the United States, Europe, Africa and Asia.
Pickett died suddenly in Perth, Western Australia on 15 January 2010.