Group Exhibition facilitated by Fright Fight Flight (Arms) @ YMCA HQ Gallery

Event Title: Fright Fight Flight Youth Arts Inititave.
Participating Artists: Group Exhibition facilitated by Fright Fight Flight (Arms).

Venue:
YMCA HQ Gallery,
60a Frame Court, Leederville.

Description: See the work created by participants and facilitators of the Fright Fight Flight 'Art Grasp Crash Course' for emerging visual artists from 2010-2011.

An exhibition opening night will be held in the gallery on Friday 6th January at 6pm, featuring live music from Fuzz, healthy refreshments and a free Fright Fight Flight X Propel Youth Arts calico show bag for attendees.

Fright Fight Flight aims to promote positive mental health by providing pathways to recovery through visual art.

Fright Fight Flight is proudly supported by Propel Youth Arts WA, YMCA and Healthway to promote the Drug Aware message.

Dates: 09 January 2012 to 19th January 2012.
Opening Times: Mon-Fri, 9-5pm.

For more information, contact: www.facebook.com/#!/events/276123835768022/

Fluidity @ Mundaring Arts Centre

Event Title: Fluidity.
Participating Artists: Curated by Jenny Haynes, participating Artists include: Greg Ash, Peter Bowles, Anne Clifton, Elizabeth Maverick, Denise Pepper, Gerry Riley and Anne Sorensen.

Venue:
Mundaring Arts Centre,
7190 Great Eastern Hwy (corner Nichol St) Mundaring WA 6073.

Description: Fluidity invites some of Western Australia's leading glass artists to explore the theme of water as a metaphor for emotion and journey and as a powerful life and death-giving force. Glass is a substance of extreme beauty, fragility and ever-changing nature and the defining theme of water offers myriad opportunities to look at this ancient art form in a new, inspiring and contemporary light.

Dates: 16 March 2012 to 22 April 2012.
Opening Times: Weekdays 10am-5pm; weekends 11am-3pm; closed public holidays.

For more information, contact: +61 8 9295 3991.

New Growth @ Mundaring Arts Centre

Event Title: New Growth.
Participating Artists: Members of FeltWEST and W4 (Women Working with Wood).

Venue:
Mundaring Arts Centre,
7190 Great Eastern Hwy (corner Nichol St) Mundaring WA 6073.

Description: A collaborative exhibition featuring contemporary artworks by female textile and wood artists from two of WA's specialist art groups, FeltWEST and W4 (Women Working With Wood). New Growth will showcase how these artists have developed from recent inspiring workshops, invigorating a new growth in their individual practices. This exhibition also marks W4's 10th Anniversary.

Dates: 8 June 2012 to 8 July 2012.
Opening Times: Weekdays 10am-5pm; weekends 11am-3pm; closed public holidays.

For more information, contact: +61 8 9295 3991.

Est. @ Mundaring Arts Centre

Participating Artists: Curated by Kate Parker, the participating Artists include: Hayley Bahr, Denise Brown, Graeme Burge, Paul Caporn, Stuart Elliott, Eva Fernandez, Korin Gath, Mike Gray, Lindsay Harris, Jessica Jubb, Justine McKnight, Greg Pryor, Clare Stroud and Vanessa Wallace.

Venue:
Mundaring Arts Centre,
7190 Great Eastern Hwy (corner Nichol St) Mundaring WA 6073.

Description: est. will shine a light on a generation of artists who have been influenced by their easterly situation. Surveying the incredible diversity of work that continues to flow from this area, the exhibition explores the nature of location and highlights the eastern region as an established yet highly contemporary artistic community.

Dates: 27 April 2012 to 3 June 2012.
Opening Times: Weekdays 10am-5pm; weekends 11am-3pm; closed public holidays.

For more information, contact: +61 8 9295 3991.

The Perth Group @ Mundaring Arts Centre

Event Title: The Perth Group, Shire of Mundaring Art Acquisition exhibition.
Participating Artists: Tom Gibbons, Guy Grey Smith, Robert Juniper, Brian McKay and Maurice Stubbs. Curated by Philippa O'Brien.

Venue:
Mundaring Arts Centre,
7190 Great Eastern Hwy (corner Nichol St) Mundaring WA 6073.

Description: A stunning survey exhibition of the members of The Perth Group. These artists were instrumental in the formation of the WA art scene and the identity of the hills as a haven for creativity from the mid 1950's.

Dates: 03 February 2012 to 11 March 2012.
Opening Times: Weekdays 10am-5pm; weekends 11am-3pm; closed public holidays.

For more information, contact: +61 8 9295 3991.

Lauren Wilhelm @ Margaret River Gallery

Event Title: bittersweet.
Participating Artists: Lauren Wilhelm.

Venue:
Margaret River Gallery,
91 Bussell Highway, Margaret River.

Description: bittersweet - an exhibition of new works from Lauren Wilhelm
Opens: Wednesday 28 December 6pm-8pm all welcome
continues until Wednesday 11 January 2012

Gallery open daily 10am- 5pm
or view online
www.margaretrivergallery.com.au

Following on from a sellout show in Perth this year.

Lauren Wilhelm explores contadictory themes in her new exhibition bittersweet; sadness and joy, connectedness and loneliness, cruelty and innocence. Rather than create a narrative her paintings seem to evoke a stillness and sweet melancholia. Animals still feature strongly in her works, juxtaposing and sometimes complimenting the human element.

Lauren comments on our frailty - all of us, humans and animals alike - reminding oneself about life's brevity can make problems seems smaller, simple connections more beautiful and time more precious.

Dates: 28 December 2011 to 11 January 2012.
Opening Times: daily 10am-5pm.

For more information, contact: 08 9757 2729.