Venue:
Treasury Building,
Corner Hay and Barrack Street Perth City.
Description: ART+ACTIVISM+FRINGE
OCCUPY ART LAB - Workshops, performances, live art and more. Injecting more politics into the Fringe and more art into activism.
Dates: 11 February 2012 to 12 February 2012.
Opening Times: 1-5pm.
For more information, contact: Michelle Braunstein.
Venue:
Moores Building,
46 Henry Street Fremantle.
Description: We go to war even as we hate it. It is a primordial force, an archetype.
Peter Ellis depicts military objects and events, which exist in a world adrift of real time. The colour and light of reality are refracted.
His works are signs. Images, words, colour and light are the signifier. The meaning (war) is the signified.
Dates: Friday 3rd February 2012 to Sunday 19 February 2012.
Opening Times: 10am to 4pm daily.
For more information, contact: Peter Ellis - 9470 4486.
Venue:
Kidogo Art House,
Bathers Beach, Mews Road Fremantle.
Description: An exhibition of drawings and limited edition prints by Graeme Pages-Oliver.
A weekly journal of thoughts, feelings, ideas and travels expressed as a tree.
Fifty two black and white drawings compiled in 2011 that reflect a roller coaster ride of feelings set in the west Australian landscape ranging from Albany in the south to the Kimberley region in the north.
While the delicate pen and ink line drawings become the centre piece of the exhibition many of them have been transformed into limited edition prints. Like the drawings, the prints are basically black and white with the introduction of some soft atmospheric colours, mostly in the sky.
The prints are created using a combination of digital, and screen printing techniques onto acid free water colour paper. The black line work in the prints is further enhanced with the use of a publishing technique to raise the ink above the surface of the paper, creating a three dimensional shiny black line.
A preview of the fifty two drawings can be seen on YouTube at http://youtu.be/MeilUfWome0
or on the artist web site at www.pajez.com.au
Dates: 15 March 2012 to 21 March 2012.
For more information, contact: graemepo@bigpond.com.
Venue:
Mezzanine Gallery, Western Australian Museum,
Perth Cultural Centre, Perth.
Description: Over seventy exquisite handmade dolls that represent the lives and stories of their Noongar creators.
Yarns of the Heart is an exhibition showcasing the dolls created by the Noongar community of the Southern Wheatbelt, made during workshops between 1994 and 2011. To find out more about the doll making workshops visit: www.canwa.com.au.
Dates: 16 September 2011 to 31 January 2012.
Opening Times: Mon-Fri, 9.30am-5pm.
For more information, contact: www.canwa.com.au.
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/
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Venue:
Heathcote Museum & Gallery,
58-60 Duncraig Road, Applecross.
Description: In 1828 Captain James Stirling considers Heathcote as the site for Western Australia's capital city. What if Heathcote had been chosen over Perth? For Tilt 2011, Tom Muller will develop a series of fictional scenarios inspired by past residents, events and history of the site. Borrowing from a multidisciplinary approach including film, installations and found objects, the artist will present a multi-facetted interpretation of Heathcote if it were Western Australia's capital city.
Dates: 12 November 2011 to 18 December 2011.
Opening Times: Wed-Fri, 10am-3pm; Sat-Sun, 12pm-4pm.
For more information, contact: claire.bushby@melville.wa.gov.au or 9364 5666.
Venue:
Harvison Gallery,
195 Brisbane Street Northbridge.
Description: Harvison Gallery invites you to our annual Masterstroke Exhibition.This year we will be showcasing both Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists.
Masterstroke Exhibition is an opportunity for collectors to acquire important works by established artists..
Dates: 2 December 2011 to 16 December 2011.
Opening Times: Wed-Sat,10am-5pm;Sun,11am-4pm.
For more information, contact: facebook:Harvison Gallery/ Mark Walker 08 92276619 0412185602.
Venue:
NYISZTOR STUDIO,
391 CANNING HWY, MELVILLE WA.
Description: THE WORKS ARE INSPIRED BY THE IDEA OF SUBURBAN BLISS.
The exhibition will be opened by Winthrop Professor Richard Read of UWA.
The show is presented in conjunction with Perth Galleries.
Dates: 19 Nov 2011 to 4 Dec 2011.
Opening Times: WED TO FRI 11 - 5PM, SAT & SUN 12 - 5PM.
For more information, contact: 0431 917 303.
Venue:
Greenhill Galleries,
6 Gugeri Street Claremont WA 6010.
Description: Celebrated Sydney-based artist, Jason Benjamin, returns to Greenhill Galleries with 'The Waiting Garden', an exhibition of sensitively rendered and breathtaking landscapes.
Dates: 21 June 2011 to 05 November 2011.
Opening Times: Tue-Fri, 10-5pm; Sat, 10-4pm.
For more information, contact: Emily Lynch.
