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

Cherry Hood @ Turner Galleries

Event Title: Flower Power
Participating Artists: Cherry Hood

Venue: Turner Galleries
Address: 470 William Street Northbridge

Description: Cherry is an Archibald prize winner who has artworks in many
important Australian art collections, including the Art Gallery of NSW, the
National Gallery of Australia, Artbank, and several regional art galleries.
This is Cherry¹s first solo exhibition in Perth.

She has become well known for her haunting, large-scale images of young
boy¹s faces. In the last year she has started to add girls faces to her
repertoire but adolescent boys, with androgynous features, still dominate
each exhibition.

Start Date: 20 June 2008
End Date: 19 July 2008
Opening Times: Tues-Sat, 11am-5pm

For more information, contact: www.turnergalleries.com.au

Garry Pumfrey @ Turner Galleries

Event Title: Terraform II
Participating Artists: Garry Pumfrey

Venue: Turner Galleries
Address: 470 William Street Northbridge

Description: Garry is a realist painter whose work over the past ten years
has critiqued the iconography of consumerism. Early paintings depicted
crushed soft drink cans and cigarette packaging, recording society's waste
on a heroic scale. These paintings were followed by his hugely successful
series of 'deli' paintings, in which he recorded the disappearing icon that
is the corner shop and the local delicatessen....

Start Date: 16 May 2008
End Date: 14 June 2008
Opening Times: Tues-Sat, 11am-5pm

For more information, contact: www.turnergalleries.com.au

Christopher Young & Elisa Markes-Young @ Breadbox

Event Title: drei & The Strange Quiet of Things Misplaced
Participating Artists: Christopher Young & Elisa Markes-Young

Venue: Breadbox Gallery
Address: 233 James St, Northbridge

Description: Elisa Markes-Young is a mixed-media artist whose work truly challenges the boundaries of art and craft. 'The Strange Quiet of Things Misplaced' deals with memory and the unreliability of recollections.

Christopher Young's photographs of urban scenes, objects and intimate black and white portraits address various aspects of his personal life and creative practice. As part of the FotoFreo 2008 Fringe Festival, 'drei' is a series that looks at the power of storytelling and the fictions that can be created by images.

Start Date: 18 April 2008
End Date: 4 May 2008
Opening Times: Wed-Fri, 12-5pm; Sat-Sun, 2-6pm

For more information, contact: zebrafactory.com

Denis Darzacq @ PCP

Event Title: hyper et casques
Participating Artists: Denis Darzacq

Venue: Perth Centre for Photography
Address: 91 Brisbane St, Perth

Description: The Perth Centre for Photography will welcome the French
Photographer, Denis Darzacq during the international photography festival,
FOTOFREO 08.

Start Date: 05 April 2008
End Date: 04 May 2008
Opening Times: Thurs-Sun, 12-5pm

For more information, contact: www.pcp.org.au

Eye to Eye @ John Curtin Gallery

Event Title: Eye to Eye
Participating Artists: Brook Andrew

Venue: John Curtin Gallery
Address: Curtin University of Technology, Building 200, Kent St, Bentley

Description: Brook Andrew is an interdisciplinary artist.

Start Date: 4 April 2008
End Date: 30 May 2008
Opening Times: Mon-Fri, 12-5pm; Sun 27 April & Sun 25 May, 1-4pm

For more information, contact: www.johncurtingallery.curtin.edu.au

Reflections on a Green World

Participating Artists: Janet Laurence

Venue: Galerie Düsseldorf
Address: 9 Glyde Street Mosman Park WA 6012

Description: Sydney artist, Janet Laurence, is today best known for her
site-specific installations. Often referred to as the "'architects' artist",
Davina Jackson, editor of Architecture Australia has suggested she is "a
serious candidate for the title of Australia's leading public artist".

Start Date: 24 February 2008
End Date: 06 April 2008
Opening Times: Wed-Fri, 11-5pm; Sun, 2-5pm

For more information, contact: http://galeriedusseldorf.com.au