The Art Space Collective are hosting a fabulous Sungay Session this weekend, aligning with international Pride month celebrations. The team are setting up for a laid back afternoon with poetry, tunes, mulled wine and fairy floss on the gallery’s private rooftop terrace. Entertainment will take musical form with Bri Clark and Cosmic Ostrich, while poet […]
PICA is calling for visual artists to apply for an exciting new opportunity. The Judy Wheeler Commission is a new 10-year site-specific commissioning program established in memory of the late Judy Wheeler. Throughout Wheeler’s life she was an enduring lover and supporter of the arts. For several years she funded Western Australia’s T.A.G. Hungerford literary […]
The 2022 Archibald Prize features many well known Australians including many members of the LGBTIQA+ communities, as well as a significant number of famous faces….and in Benjamin Law’s case, even more. Several of the portraits making the final cut feature people who have previously been painted for the competition, including broadcaster Law and musician Deborah […]
An upcoming exhibition is showcasing the best new and emerging Aboriginal artists on the west coast. This year the Revealed Exhibition will open on Friday 6 May and run until Sunday 24 July, a significant calendar shift that sees Revealed coincide with both NAIDOC and National Reconciliation Weeks. Featuring the work of 100 new and […]
Head down to 149 Beaufort Street where you can see a vast array of stunning photographs by local gay artist Philip Shadbolt Shadbolt’s photographs are composites – hundreds of images layered on top of each other to create a single art work. Among other things, he uses patterns from Persian rugs and Indian textiles, as […]
The Court Hotel has installed a colourful mural to represent the diversity of Perth’s LGBTQIA+ community. The new artwork was created by Jackson Harvey, who is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Fremantle. Jackson Harvey’s work is world renowned, with pieces sprawling throughout United Kingdom, Europe, the Americas and parts of South East Asia. OUTinPerth found […]
Perth audiences are going to get a chance to see the works of Vincent Van Gogh is a whole new way when Van Gogh Alive arrives at Supreme Court Gardens in May. The world’s most visited multi-sensory experience celebrates the world’s most famous artist. Van Gogh Alive is something that can entertain the whole family. Van Gogh’s […]
In a state gallery first, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art takes the entire stage at the Art Gallery of WA during BlakLight, a month-long program celebrating the diversity of First Nations art and culture. BlakLight will see every gallery space at AGWA dedicated to Australia’s most significant contemporary art form – showcasing the diversity […]
The filtering of gaze and desire through the cis white heterosexual male perspective is still the dominant lens in which we view and understand body, and is a lens Dan Gladden and Kimberley Pace aim to shift and subvert through these collaborative new drawings and ceramics. Dan Gladden is a WA artist who has exhibited […]
The Lester Prize is now accepting submissions for it’s 2022 competition. Artists from across Australia are invited to submit portraits of an Australian (or Australians) that they respect or admire, or a self-portrait. In April 2019, the Black Swan Prize for Portraiture, one of the country’s richest prizes for portraiture was renamed The Lester Prize […]
