Exhibitions Archive
Abstract Earth
For the last 30 years, Dutch-born photographer Richard Woldendorp has been depicting the Australian landscape from a unique perspective from the sky. As a veteran of many flights and with 20 books, numerous group exhibitions and 30 solo shows both in Australia and overseas behind him, Woldendorp is acknowledged as a giant of Australian photography.It is not only the natural landscape and its extraordinary features that have caught Woldendorp's eye, but also the man made aspects of the landscape ... Read More
A Story to Tell
In A Story to Tell, Nyoongar artist Laurel Nannup tells her own story, through woodcuts, etchings and photographs. These works illustrate the artist's memories of place, particular events and people, all of which contribute to an overview of her life. At the age of eight, the Native Welfare Department took Laurel, her sister and her cousin away from the Pinjarra region and their families to the Wandering Mission where they lived and worked until they were old enough to work on farms in the ... Read More
Configured
Up the rusty staircase towards the studio door. Your footsteps make a dull pong...pong... sound like a medieval bell. It lets everyone in the building sense in an almost subliminal way that someone's arriving... This is the staircase to Gotham Studios in Perth, the origin of this exhibition.All the artists in this show have, at some stage, worked from Gotham, often referred to as the longest running artists' space in the city.Kevin Robertson, curator, Configured.Configured is an exciting ... Read More
Fertile Soil
"Fertile Soil focuses upon the core strengths of the collection, in particular the established generation of makers who call Fremantle their home today."Curator Andre LipscombeFremantle's enduring role as home and favourite subject matter for artists is celebrated in an exhibition marking the 50 years of the City of Fremantle Art Collection.The City's Collection, comprising more than 1200 works collected over the decades, reflects the port town's particular artistic heritage, making it one of ... Read More
Forever and Easy
An exhibition of rock and roll photography by Michael Wylie documenting twelveyears of live music in WA. Some of the worlds biggest international acts such asRolling Stones, U2, Pearl Jam, B.B King, Lenny Kravitz, KISS, Janet Jackson, Nick Cave, RageAgainst the Machine, Sonic Youth, Ben Harper, Pavement, Prodigy, The Rollins Band, TheStrokes, Tool, The Cure, Beck and Mudhoney are exhibited, as well as Australia's bestindependent bands, such as You Am I, The Vines, Hunters and Collectors, ... Read More
From Space to Place
What is the difference between space and place? When and how does a space become a place? How does globalisation affect the sense of place of a community?These are some of the questions that the participating artists address through their work in this challenging and innovative show. From Space to Place presents new works created by 14 early-career Australian artists during their 2004 residency at the International Art Space Kellerberrin (IASKA). IASKA is a ground-breaking art organisation ... Read More
Hotspot
Hotspot is a contemporary art project involving a dynamic group of artists from Western Australia's Great Southern region, MIX Artists Incorporated, working in conjunction with their local environment. This project has been developed for the 2006 Great Southern Perth International Arts Festival.The Hotspot project has been documented, recorded and given form through a touring exhibition, which contains the work of 14 artists. Initiated and curated by Annette Davis and Shaaron du Bignon, ... Read More
Impact and Fusion
IMPACT & FUSION by WA artist Bello Benischauer presents a dialogue between three sets of wall-objects and audio-visual installations, questioning the social impact of human beings on nature through mass consumption and globally increasing population. Bello has exhibited regularly since the late 90s across Australia, Europe and the United States. His projects explore the relationship between humanity, technology and the natural environment through a synthesis of various art practices.This ... Read More
Mine Own Executioner
"WA's answer to the Archibald Prize, the Mine Own Executioner exhibition has stood the test of time and holds pride of place in WA artists' hearts for continuously questioning the position of the artist in art."Ric Spencer, Visual Arts WriterThe West Australian Since 1995, many of Western Australia's leading visual artists have been invited to join emerging and mid-career artists in the Mundaring Arts Centre's annual self portraiture exhibition, Mine Own Executioner. To celebrate the ... Read More
Modified
In his new exhibition entitled Modified, Western Australian artist Paul Caporn satirically engages with ideas of masculinity and cultural identity. Modified presents artworks that examine the very suburban activities of customising, DIY and obsessions with backyard tools and appliances and their related stereotypical rituals. The show is built around five main pieces, Tool Box, Barbie Mate, Life Boy, Excess and Mowing the Median Strip, all of which are large, three dimensional installation ... Read More
On Track
An ART ON THE MOVE touring exhibition.On Track showcases the dynamic development of Western Australian Aboriginal artists' expression over the last decade. 32 works have been selected from the prestigious University of Western Australia, Berndt Museum of Anthropology collection. The exhibition presents a unique opportunity to view the diversity of regional and artistic perspectives within the contemporary Western Australian setting. Commentaries and questioning of family and work experiences, ... Read More
On The Outskirts - Allawah Grove
On the Outskirts: Allawah Grove Aboriginal Settlement Exhibition, PerthThe exhibition showcases 50 photographic images that allow the audience to observe some aspects of life as it was within the community of Allawah Grove. Funded by the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Services, the Holmes à Court family and the Berndt Museum of Anthropology at the University of Western Australia, the exhibition represents a small part of a collection bequeathed to the Berndt Museum of Anthropology by ... Read More
Out of Site
ART ON THE MOVE touring contemporary art - new national tour of Out of Site - a survey of the IASKA international artists program (1998-2002) For the first time a selection of contemporary artworks that leading Australian and international artists have created for the International Art Space, Kellerberrin Australia (IASKA) are presented in the exhibition Out of Site. IASKA is a groundbreaking organisation based on a unique idea: to run a cutting-edge program of exhibitions and residencies by ... Read More
Promised Land
An installation work by Australian sculpture artist Nien Schwarz will be presented at Albany, Kalgoorlie and Esperance as part of the West Australian tour during 2002/3.In the face of increasing land and water degradation is it possible to create an ecologically sustainable future? What is sustainable to begin with? Created from hundreds of emergency edition topographic maps of Australia distributed during the 1940s, the four works in 'Promised Land' considers the collective impact of global ... Read More
Right To Be Counted
Award-winning Melbourne photographer, Tobias Titz and the Wangka Maya Pilbara Aboriginal Language Centre have collaborated with the Indigenous community members from Port Hedland, Yandeyarra, Carnarvon and Warralong to create a series of photographic portraits that articulate the communities' thoughts, opinions and experiences regarding the 1967 referendum.Commemorating 40 years of citizenship, Right to be Counted is an exhibition highlighting the power of words. The 1967 referendum was a ... Read More
Tagged - celebrity change commodity
Tagged features multimedia works focusing on the impact of celebrity and consumerism on individuality. Images of pop culture celebrities: Elvis; Michael Jackson; Madonna and Bjork together with photographs of Minaxi are enmeshed together using digital morphing techniques, creating new celebrities which are subsequently rebranded into commodities. These fabricated personalities are objectified, marketed and packaged, imitating real-life branding to create an installation of life-size cut out ... Read More
Sanyoso - Three Elements
This exhibition represents a major project in the development of cross-cultural and cross-artform works by three internationally recognised contemporary women artists. For the past two years Western Australian artists Sandra Black (ceramics) and Anne Farren (textiles) have been working with Japanese Nanga artist Tousui Tanaka to develop a series of exciting installation works which explore the merging of traditional Japanese art forms with contemporary Western ideas and forms.'Sanyoso: Three ... Read More
Seven Sisters
Seven Sisters presents the work of a number of indigenous and non-indigenous fibre artists living in the western half of Australia. It is the first major exhibition to document the highly significant creative collaboration undertaken amongst these artists over the last three decades. Participants include one of Western Australia's most respected fibre artists, Nalda Searles and a number of practitioners she has inspired and worked with, both indigenous and non-indigenous, over the past twenty ... Read More
Transient
Transient is a journey through the remarkable mind and art of Hans Arkeveld. Hans is one of Western Australia's foremost artists and this timely retrospective exhibition looks at his deeply felt commitment to art as a means of exploring the nature of life and our experience of the world.Hans has been a practising artist since the early 1960s and has taught in most of the major art institutions in Perth. His art, and that of a handful of others, has been recognised as seminal to the development ... Read More