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