31st Annual Art Exhibition & Sale

Over 300 original works by local artists

Venue: Arthritis Foundation of WA
Address: 17 Lemnos St
Shenton Park WA 6008

Description: This prestigious art show and sale helps raise money for the Arthritis Foundation of WA. With over 300 never before exhibited paintings from WA artists. Entry is by gold coin donation over the weekend. A cocktail party and exclusive preview will be held on Friday 1st May ($35 ticket),Call Arthritis WA to book.

Start Date: 2nd May 2009
End Date: 3rd May 2009
Opening Times: 11am - 4pm

For more information, contact: Jenny Tan

Jo Darbyshire @ Johnston/Indigenart

Johnston's regular space is currently closed but they'll be showing Jo Darbyshire's new work - Floating World - at Indigenart.

The show runs from March 11 - April 4.

Indigenart is at 115 Hay Street, Subiaco.

See www.johnstongallery.com.au for more details.

Indra Geidans & Claire McFarlane @ Turner Galleries

Participating Artists:
Indra Geidans & Claire McFarlane

INDRA GEIDANS has always been inspired by domestic environments with, or without, people. The female figure is the central character and is on thebrink of change - overwhelmed by the dilemmas of her life...

CLARE MCFARLANE has titled her exhibition on The enlightenment project - usually cited as a time in which science and reason, as opposed to authorityand superstition, were held to be the answer to understanding the world...

Venue:
Turner Galleries
470 William St
Northbridge WA 6003

Dates:
13 March - 9 April 2009

Opening Hours:
Tuesday to Saturday 11am ­ 5pm and by appointment

For more information: www.turnergalleries.com.au

Bevan Honey @ TAFE Art Gallery

Artist: Bevan Honey

'The traditional drawing medium provides a central pivot for Honey, and informs his constructions and multiples, whose immaculately delicate surfaces are achieved by painstakingly long application processes. Honey's works bring together the real and the imagined, employing irony and humourto comment on the Australian vernacular.' - TAFE Website

Venue:
TAFE Art Gallery
12 Aberdeen Street
Northbridge

Dates:
March 7-28, 2009

Times:
Mon-Fri, 10am-4.45pm; Sat, 2pm-4.45pm

For more information: www.mhf.asn.au & www.gallerycentral.com.au/

Jacqui Ball & Honni Mansell @ PCP

Participating Artists: Jacqui Ball & Honni Mansell
Venue: Perth Centre for Photography
Address: 91 Brisbane Street, Perth

Description: Emerging artists investigate the concept of liminality, a
suspended moment in time and space that is characterised by ambiguity,
openness, and indeterminacy.

Through the representation of the body and architectural spaces, these two
artists create an array of seductive and powerful images.

Exhibition dates: March 12 - April 4, 2009
Official opening: Thursday, March 12, 6pm
Gallery opening hours: Thursday to Sunday, 12 - 5pm

Please see http://www.pcp.org.au for more details.

Perth International Arts Festival - Visual Arts Overview

Location: John Curtin Gallery
Janet Cardiff: The Forty Part Motet
A transfixing combination of art, voice and sound by an internationally renowned Canadian sound artist.
13 February - ­3 April

Location: Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA)
Oscar Munoz: Mirror Image
One of Latin America's most significant living artists examines the allusive and illusory nature of art and life.
12 February - 5 April

Location: Forrest Place
Gina Czarnecki: Spine
A dynamic large scale visual and auditory experience centred on metamorphosis and bodily form.
13 February - 8 March

Location: Planetarium Pyramid, The Esplanade
Chris Watson: Whispering in the Leaves
Take a sensory journey with a highly distinguished British sound artist fusing wildlife and location recordings from the Americas.
18 February - 7 March

Location: 235 St Georges Tce
Daniel von Sturmer
One of Australia's most exciting contemporary multimedia artists lights up the built environment.
13 February - 27 February

Location: Perth CBD
Re-Face
Interactive screens and image collections provoke reflections upon art, the artist and public space.
27 February - 28 February

Location: John Curtin Gallery
of art and music
Reflect upon the relationship between sound and music.
13 February - 3 April

Location: Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, UWA
Imants Tillers: The long poem
A major force in Australian art creates a synergy of word and image.
12 February - 21 April

Location: Art Gallery of Western Australia
Larrakitj
Some of the most powerful aesthetic objects in contemporary Australian art are also some of the most beautiful.
14 February - 31 May

More information on http://www.perthfestival.com.au/visualarts

Wendy Arnold @ Gadfly Gallery

Participating Artists: Wendy Arnold
Show Title: Kisho Bori: The Promise Engravings

Venue: Gadfly Gallery
Address: 131b Waratah Avenue, Dalkeith

Description: Welcome to the willow world of the geisha...when Japanese
courtesans wore erotic phrases tattooed onto hidden parts of their bodies -
only to be revealed when naked or during lovemaking.

These are the 'Promise Engravings' ... Kisho bori, which flourished around
720 AD, along with literature, puppet theatre, bathouses and licensed
premises.

Start Date: March 7, 2009
End Date: March 28, 2009
Opening Times: Tues - Fri 11-5, Sat & Sun 2-5

For more information, contact: 08 9386 8369

Outsiders View @ Gallery Nine by Five

Participating Artists: Anne McCaughey

Venue: Gallery Nine by Five
Address: 6 Elder Place Fremantle

Description: Outsider View presents new paintings by Anne Marie McCaughey,
an established Irish artist, who has been exhibiting since graduating from
art college in England in the mid-eighties. The exhibition consists of two
distinct series of works, small oils in which she investigates the nature of
the mining machinery machine as a valuable cultural artifact, and a number
of paintings of Fremantle and its surrounds.

Start Date: 13th March 2009
End Date: 26 March 2009
Opening Times: 10am - 5pm Tuesday - Sunday

For more information, contact: 08 9433 5381

Ummm... @ Moores Building

Ummm...The ARTiculate Practitioner

Participating artists:
Yolande Therese Bennett, Natalie Brown, Jane Donlin, Matthew Jackson, Jane Lawton, Steve Makse, Igor Mihajlovic, Jacqui Monks, Nathan Stevens, Sally Stewart, Xuning Wang, Eileen Whitehead, Susan Williams and ... ummm ... Brooke Zeligman.
Curator: Erin Coates

Venue details:
Moores Building Contemporary Art Gallery
46 Henry Street
Fremantle WA 6959

Exhibition Dates:
14th February 2009 ­ 22nd February 2009
Open: 10am to 5pm Daily

Opening Reception:
Friday, 13th February 2009, 6pm

For more info visit:
Website: http://ummm.com.au

Exhibition opportunity in Leederville

This has been doing the rounds on various sites so may as well be here as well.

If you are an emerging, amateur or professional artist wanting to exhibit work, Headquarters Gallery at the YMCA Youth Headquarters Skatepark wants to hear from you. Headquarters will give priority to artists under 30 but we will try to accommodate everyone.

If interested call Poppy van Oorde-Grainger, Community Art Co-ordinator on 0438 992 465 or email poppy.vog@ymca.org.au

Please include digital images in your email if possible.

Tobias Richardson @ Turner Galleries

Circumambulation 2007 & Sequential Spatial Experience 2008/09

Turner Galleries
470 William Street
Northbridge WA 6003
http://www.turnergalleries.com.au

Opening hours:
Tuesday to Saturday 11am ­ 5pm
and by appointment

Dates: 6 February - 7 March 2009
Opening: Friday 6 February, 6-8pm
Public Talk: 14 February, 4pm

The first artist in residence for 2009, Tobias Richardson, has recently arrived in Perth to undertake his residency with Turner Galleries and Central Tafe.

Toni Wilkinson @ Perth Galleries

Johnston Gallery is currently homeless so, in association with Perth Galleries, Toni Wilkinson will be showing work there instead.

m/others and seven and fifteen

Dates: 13 February to 8 March 2009
Venue: Perth Galleries, 92 Stirling Highway, North Fremantle

Opening times:
Tuesday - Friday 10:00am - 5:00pm,
Saturday 11:00 am -5:00 pm,
Sunday 2:00 - 5:00pm,
closed public holidays

Lois Greenfield @ PCP

Celestial Bodies/Infernal Souls

Legendary dance photographer Lois Greenfield will being showing this body of
work at PCP.

Official opening: Thursday 12 February, 6pm
Exhibition dates: 13 February - 8 March, 2009

Venue: PCP
91 Brisbane Street, Perth WA 6000
Gallery opening hours: Thursday to Sunday, 12-5pm

Lois Greenfield & Jodi Kaplan Artist Talk
Sunday 15 February, 10am ­ 12 noon
PICA¹s Performance Space

For more information about this artist please visit
http://www.loisgreenfield.com

After Hours @ Brazen Art Space

Event Title: After Hours
Participating Artists: Taj Gates, Sharon Levine,
Aquila McKenzie, Sue Templeton, Mecah White

Venue: brazen art space
Address: Cnr South Tce & Harbour Rd, South Fremantle

Description: Paintings by five artists who work together at
Jacksons Art Supplies. Figurative to abstract. View Mecah's
beautiful studies of Freo in the rain and Sharon's colourful
florals.

Start Date: 28 November 2008
End Date: 21 December 2008
Opening Times: Wed - Sat, 11am - 5:30pm; Sun 12pm - 5pm

For more information, contact: 93355062, 94308283

Arterial Collective @ Ginger's Garage

Participating Artists: Cameron Campbell, Pete Long, Jessie Singh and Nisha Ariyaratne

Venue: Ginger's Garage
Address: 267 William Street

Description: The first exhibition from the Arterial Collective' showcases the work of Cameron Campbell, Pete Long, Jessie Singh and Nisha Ariyaratne - a self-funded group of emerging contemporary artists. The collective uses their ideas and work to forge bonds between other artists, galleries, art forms and countries, creating relationships outside of genre or geography.

Start Date: 17 October
End Date: 26 October
Opening Times: 9am-5pm

For more information, contact: artartart@arterialcollective.com