The Fremantle Biennale has returned over the weekend, ready for 16 nights of public artworks, music and dance and large-scale installations. 18 new commissions are taking over Walyalup, from strobe-lit warehouse installations to dockside dance performances and spectacular done, light and sound shows. The celebration of the arts is coming to venues all across the […]
5 Nov 2023 /
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The Art Gallery of Western Australia is presenting largest-ever ensemble of collected glass and mixed-media works in Australia by internationally recognised Kokatha and Nukunu artist Yhonnie Scarce, as part of the Perth Festival 2024. One of the country’s leading contemporary artists, Scarce is known for her large-scale, unforgettable glass installations that bring to light some […]
5 Nov 2023 |
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If you loved the immersive exhibition of Vincent Van Gogh that visited Perth recently there’s another great art experience on its way, this time focusing on the work of French impressionist painter Claude Monet. Monet in Paris invites guests to step back in time into the dazzling world of 19th-century Paris where Monet and the […]
15 Oct 2023 |
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Central Park is hosting their successful Benchmark event on 28-29 September with local artists showcasing their work in the iconic building’s gardens. Benchmark provides a unique platform for WA artists to showcase their work to the community, with the event featuring the live painting of garden benches. This month WA artists Kevin Bynder, Sioux Tempestt, […]
25 Sep 2023 |
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Fremantle based photographer Ducan Wright has been awarded the 2023 Iris Award for the Perth Centre for Photography. The annual award celebrates portraiture. Wright’s winning image titled ‘Nick’ is of local musician Nicholas Allbrook and features him wearing bright pink lipstick and chipped nail polish. Duncan Wright studied under Max Pam and Kevin Ballantine at Edith […]
3 Sep 2023 |
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AGWA has announced Re/Collections: a suite of exhibitions reimagined to celebrate works in the WA State Art Collection. As Western Australia’s greatest visual art asset, the prized Collection aims to empower visitors to understand the world — old, new, unknown — creatively. Re/Collections is an extension of this objective. Expertly curated, the exhibitions have been woven […]
28 Aug 2023 |
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Julia Gutman has been awarded the 2023 Archibald Prize. The portrait competition delivers a $100,000 paycheck as well as international fame. The subject of Gutman’s portrait was her former housemate Jessica Cerro, who is best known by her stage name Montaigne. Gitman’s portrait of the Eurovision singer is titled Head in the sky, feet on the […]
6 May 2023 |
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Australia’s most famous art competition The Archibald Prize has released the works which have made it past the judges and into final contention, and among them some very familiar faces. Transmasculine and non-binary Actor Zoe Terakis is captured, as is politician Alex Greenwich, and boxer Harry Garside. Other portraits feature chef and restauranteur Kylie Kwong, […]
28 Apr 2023 |
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Sculpture by the Sea returns to Cottesloe Beach from 3 – 20 March 2023 with the 19th annual Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe exhibition. One of Perth’s largest free public events, the exhibition attracts an estimated 180,000 local, interstate and international visitors to the iconic beach for an extended summer each March. In 2023, over […]
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16 Jan 2023 |
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An exhibition opening night like no other will take place early in the new year at Gallery Central, Perth, when Permission, the latest collection of Nudescapes by photographer and artist Lauren Crooke will launch to the public. On top of the reveal of this new collection, the opening night celebrations will see Crooke conducting a group nude photoshoot for the […]
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12 Dec 2022 |
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