PUBLIC ART IN THE CITY - PERTH

Event Title: PUBLIC: ART IN THE CITY.
Participating Artists: to view participating artists visit:
http://www.form.net.au/project/public/artists/.

Venue: Perth City

Description: Over 9 days, 30 walls and additional city spaces will be
transformed by 45 urban, visual and digital artists from around the globe.

You will see walls and laneways around the Perth CBD come alive with street
art, projections, installations and public events.

This free program will unfold from April 5th, where the public can witness
artists creating new works in the inner-city. Works will be completed over
the weekend of 12th and 13th April with the public invited to enjoy PUBLIC
Houses pop up installations, music and hospitality, and hear from the
artists in the PUBLIC Program of artist talks.

Dates: 5 April 2014 to 13 April 2014.

For more information, contact: 9226 2161.

Lights out Festival @ Perth Cultural Centre - Urban Orchard

Event Title: Lights Out Art Festival

Participating Artists: Various Local Artists

Venue: Perth Cultural Centre - Urban Orchard, Perth Cultural Centre.

Description: Perth is set to celebrate Earth Hour!  The Colosoul Group is back for its second year putting on the Lights Out Arts Festival, on March 29 (this Saturday). A not-for-profit youth organisation run for the purpose of supporting the local Arts.

The afternoon will kick off with an Earth Hour inspired fashion show at 3.15pm, followed by live music by some of Perth’s emerging and developing musicians who will showcase throughout the day. Festival goers can browse live art installations and pop-up stalls from local fashion boutiques and designers before listening to the tunes of Tim Nelson and watching It’s Lights Out for The Reef – an Earth Hour documentary special when lights are turned off for Earth Hour at 8:30pm. A wide range of food and beverage stalls will be on site.

$25.00 via ticketbooth.com.au or $35 at the door.

Dates: March 29th to March 30^th 2014.

Opening Times: 2:30-12:00am

For more information: https://www.facebook.com/events/218898711640661/

Over 100 artists and craft workers from the region will be exhibiting their work. @ ARtS SPACE

Event Title: Dryandra Country Art, Food & Wine Trail.

Participating Artists: Over 100 artists and craft workers from the region will be exhibiting their work..

Venue: ARtS SPACE, 80 Federal Street, Narrogin, WA 6312.

Description: The Dryandra Country Art, Food and Wine Trail is a self-drive tour held over the Mother’s Day weekend of Saturday 10 and Sunday 11 May. The tour links 23 venues in eight towns - Cuballing, Narrogin, Pingelly, Popanyinning, Wagin, Wandering, Wickepin and Williams. All galleries, studios, cafes and wineries will be open from 10am to 4pm, entry is free and all will have art on display. Copies of the 2014 Trail Guide are available now by email from arttrail@artsnarrogin.com.au or by phoning ARtS Narrogin on (08) 9881 6987.

Dates: 10 May 2014 to 11 May 2014.

Opening Times: Sat-Sun 10am-4pm.

For more information, contact: ARtS Narrogin (08) 9881 6987.

Didot Klasta @ Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA)

Event Title: VICTIMS & VERSIONS : Indonesian mass killings 1965

Participating Artists: Didot Klasta

Venue: Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA), Perth Cultural Centre. 51 James Street, Northbridge.

Description: DIdot klasta is in residency developing the concept and installation artform for a new series of works on the Indonesian mass killings of 1965.

The mysterious kidnapping and murder of six Indonesian army generals by a group of military personnel in early October 1965 was used as a pretext to destroy the popular leftist movement in Indonesia in 1965.  Between 500,000 and three million people were killed by military and military directed civilian militias. Many were imprisoned without trial and their families experience ongoing discrimination.

Following these acts of ‘genocide’, President Sukarno’s Populist revolutionary administration was crushed and was replaced by a new corrupt and repressive regime, which served it’s own domestic elite and western interests.  They still rule the country today.

Dates: 17 February 2014 to 27 April 2014.

Opening Times: Thu-Fri-Sat, 10.30-3pm.

For more information, contact: 0402 695 524.

Jenn Garland @ Kurb Gallery

Event Title: You Too Must Seek The Sun

Participating Artists: Jenn Garland

Venue: Kurb Gallery, 312 William Street, Perth

Description: Garland presents works spanning sculpture, painting and photography inspired by the plants that shaped human history. Using a botanical palette and drawing on the myths and narratives attached to flora and natural forms, she creates geometric abstractions that reflect cycles of growth and decay. The use (and abuse) of plants is explored, highlighting the promise and perils of the natural world, and the rituals people use to understand their place within it.

Dates: 16 March 2014 to 21 march 2014.

Opening Times: Sunday, 3-6pm; Tues-Fri, 12-6pm.

For more information, contact: Jess Knight-0420 753 725.

Colosoul @ Perth Cultural Centre - Urban Orchard

Event Title: Lights Out Arts Festival

Participating Artists: Colosoul

Venue: Perth Cultural Centre - Urban Orchard, James Street Mall, Perth City Center.

Description: On Saturday, 29 March 2014, Colosoul is hosting a Lights Out Art Festival in support of Earth Hour. I am in charge of the artist tent and I encourage all visual artists to come and hang out in my tent. A small handful of canvases, paints, all your creative needs will be provided by me but please bring along your own if you wish to create a beautiful work of art to sell on the day. Additionally, I encourage you to use my tent as a place to sell your artworks and you receive all dimes made right back! Seriously, this is an event that comes only once in a lifetime for visual artists! Please come along and support the arts.

Invite every one you know as this event is not one to be missed!!! Spread the word!!

-Tickets are $25 on Ticketbooth and $35 at the door!

- Artists submitting work are required to pay a minimum of $10 to cover the tent cost :D... (you will surely earn it back right away)

- More updates and visuals closer to the date :D

I hope you are as excited as I am!!!

http://events.ticketbooth.com.au/event/3817257/tag/search

https://www.facebook.com/events/218898711640661/?ref_newsfeed_story_type=regular.

Dates: 29/3/2014 to 29/3/2014.

Opening Times: 2-10pm.

For more information, contact: https://www.facebook.com/events/218898711640661/.

A solo exhibition by Patrick Doherty @ Venn Gallery

Event Title: Confessions to god, but not mine.

Participating Artists: A solo exhibition by Patrick Doherty.

Venue: Venn Gallery, 16 Queen Street Perth 6000.

Description: Patrick Doherty is known for his free-style figurative illustrations that portray fantastic sequences and contain rich, colourful imagery. These epic, imaginative landscapes echo with ancient mythologies, often referencing spiritual, bodily and religious iconography to captivate and confront the audience.

In Confessions to god, but not mine, Doherty continues to explore this terrain and will focus in particular on past and present deities, god like beings and religious figures from a diverse range of cultural, historical and religious narratives.

Dates: 28 February 2014 to 4 April 2014.

Opening Times: Wed - Sat, 11am - 5pm or by appointment.

For more information, contact: Kate Mullen.

Nola Farman, Marie Haass, Angela Stewart @ Spectrum Project Space

Event Title: Drawing Matters

Venue: Spectrum Project Space, 3.191, Edith Cowan University, 2 Bradford Street, Mount Lawley.

Description: Farman, Haass and Stewart’s considerable skills have been tempered by time and experience. Although drawing is an individual experience, each artist shares a common sense of process, of drawing out meaning, as they search for a satisfying visual aesthetic sense.

Online catalogue at drawingmatters.com.au

Please also join us for a drawing Master Class ‘Unravelling’ on Saturday, 15 March 2014. The class will take place in the space alongside the Drawing Matters exhibition. Cost: $250 (GST inc) and booking is essential. Email spectrum@ecu.edu.au.

Dates: 28 February 2014 to 21 March 2014.

Opening Times: Tues - Fri 10am - 4pm; Sat 12 - 4pm.

For more information, contact: spectrum@ecu.edu.au.

The Antipodean Steampunk Show @ Wanneroo Gallery

Event Title: The Antipodean Steampunk Show

Venue: Wanneroo Gallery, 3 Rocca Way, Wanneroo.

Description: Contemporary technology and Victorian styling will collide in spectacular fashion during The Antipodean Steampunk Show at Wanneroo Library and Cultural Centre, 3 Rocca Way Wanneroo.

 

If today’s technology had been introduced in the 19th century, what would the world look like?  The Antipodean Steampunk Show attempts to answer this question in a fascinating mash-up of past, future, and fantasy, which opens on the Friday 21 March 2014.

Dates: 21 March 2014 to 16 April 2014.

Opening Times: Tue - Fri 10-4pm; Sat - Sun 12-4pm.

For more information, contact: 9405 5920.