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.

Articulate Exhibition @ Sir Charles Gairdner Exhibition Art Gallery

Event Title: Articulate Exhibition

Participating Artists: Katrina Barber * Greg Barr * Roslyn Burns * Paul Caine * Mathew Clark * Clive Collender * Janine Egan * Karen Forbes-Smith * David Guhl * Tim Maley * Daniel Marinovich * Brendan Morris * Delores Purdie * Candice Raphael * John Verjans * Brian Wasley * Amanda White * Catherine White * Chris White * Tamar Zuker.

Venue: Sir Charles Gairdner Exhibition Art Gallery, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital Art Gallery, Ground Floor, B Block, Hospital Avenue, Nedlands.

Description: An exhibition of inspiring artworks by a select number of As We Are artists.

Please join us for the official opening: 5.00pm – 7.00pm, Monday 10 March 2014.

Light refreshments provided. Please RSVP by 7 March to coordinator@asweare.com.au

Exhibition open 9.00am – 5.00pm daily, 11 March – 20 April 2014

Dates: 10 March 2014 to 20 April 2014

Opening Times: 9.00am – 5.00pm daily

For more information, contact: Susie Waller. www.asweare.com.au.

Beautiful Vermin @ Gallery Central

Event Title: Beautiful Vermin

Participating Artists: Indra Geidans, Philip Ward Dickson, Therese Howard, Debbie Walker Tremlett, Eva Fernandes, Olga Cironis (all WA), Yvette Watt (TAS), Rona Green (VIC), Emily Valentine (NSW), Franck Gohier, Chayni Henry, Iwana Ken and Tjanpi Desert Weavers (all NT).

Venue: Gallery Central, 12 Aberdeen St, Perth.

Description: Artists look at the relationship between humans and nature focusing on the paradoxical love that some of us have for bunnies, foxes and animals that don’t belong here in Australia. How do we fit in and what do we allow to coexist? Artists from WA and beyond respond to the love/hate relationship we have with these cute critters and feathered friends, pets and pests. We adore them despite the fact that they are extremely detrimental to our environment, or we despise them but can’t help but be seduced by their plumage, pelt or intelligence.

Dates: 8 March 2014 to 29 March 2014.

Opening Times: m-f 10-4.45pm sat 2-4.45pm.

For more information, contact: gallery@central.wa.edu.au

Press Photographers @ The Epson Print Gallery

Event Title: Nikon Walkley Press Awards Exhibition.

Participating Artists: Press Photographer.

Venue: The Epson Print Gallery, 268 Lord Street Perth WA 6000.

Description: If you love photography and enjoy how images can tell a story then you must check out these incredible photographs in the Nikon Walkely Press Photography Exhibition. It will be sure to move you!

Each year, more than 100 photographs are considered for selection in the annual Walkley Awards – the pinnacle of achievement for Australian press photographers judged by industry experts and awarded in November. After the awards, the Nikon-Walkley Press Photography Exhibition hits the road to give a wide audience a glimpse into the outstanding moments in sport, daily life and news reportage captured during 2013.

Dates: 19th Feb 2014 to 15th Feb 2014.

Opening Times: Mon to fri 8.30 - 5.00pm Sat 1.00-1.00pm.

For more information, contact: Ben, Tel: 9328 3377.

Australian War Memorial @ Wanneroo Gallery

Event Title: Nurses: from Zululand to Afghanistan

Participating Artists: Australian War Memorial

Venue: Wanneroo Gallery, 3 Rocca Way, Wanneroo.

Description: Australian nurses have been going to war for well over 100 years, but their important contribution to Australia’s overseas military operations often goes unreported.

The Australian War Memorial’s latest travelling exhibition, Nurses: from Zululand to Afghanistan, explores the involvement of nurses from the first known Australian in the Zulu War of 1879, right up to the experiences of the male and female nurses serving in recent conflicts and peacekeeping operations.

Using the Memorial’s rich collection, the exhibition will highlight the personal stories of army, air force and navy nurses who have served overseas, the difficulties and challenges they faced.

Dates: 28 February 2014 to 27 April 2014.

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

For more information, contact: 9405 5920.

Sturt Jasher @ The York Mill Gallery

Event Title: Land

Participating Artists: Sturt Jasher.

Venue: The York Mill Gallery, 10 Henrietta Street, York,  Western Australia, 6302.

Description: The York Mill Gallery is located in the beautiful country town of York 97 km from Perth. The town along with the York Mill holds a wealth of history stretching back to the eighteenth century.

Entitled 'Land', this exhibition is a compilation of photography from various rural locations primarily in Western Australia. Sturt Jasher has been exploring photography as an artform for a number of years and has previously exhibited his artwork in the Perth region. This York Mill Exhibition is bringing Sturt's appreciation of nature vividly to life in both colour and monochrome imagery.

Dates: 05/03/2014 to 30/03/2014.

Opening Times: Wed-Sun, 10 AM - 4 PM.

For more information, contact: (08) 9641 2900.

Jennie Feyen @ Noodle Palace

Event Title: Mieru (I Can See)

Participating Artists: Jennie Feyen

Venue:  Noodle Palace, Piccadilly Cinema, 700 Hay Street, Perth, Western Australia

Description: ‘Mieru’ is a video installation that consists of a wall lined with recycled toy stuffing, soft colour projections and the sound of the Crystal Armonica, a very rare instrument that was invented by Benjamin Franklin. The installation will be exhibited at Noodle Palace.

The concept for Mieru was inspired by an experience my music teacher, Chiho Kagawa, had when she performed this instrument in Kobe, Japan.  She was approached by members of the audience who said that their children, who are blind, claimed they could see colours when listening to the instrument.

Dates: 05/02/14 to 16/02/14

Opening Times: Wed-Sun, 6pm-12 midnight

For more information, contact: Jennie Feyen

Hannah Tyler @ Kurb Gallery

Event Title: Fault Lines.
Participating Artists: Hannah Tyler.

Venue: Kurb Gallery, 312 William St, Perth.

Description: In Fault Lines, local artist Hannah Tyler juxtaposes the way
that geological maps chronicle millions of years of history of a place, with
the way that portraiture maps the character of a person. The exhibition
combines portraits and life drawings with original geologic maps.

Dates: 01/02/2014 to 07/01/2014.
Opening Times: Sat 6-9pm, Sun-Fri 1-6pm.

For more information, contact:
https://www.facebook.com/events/569827756439333/.

Amy Ngurnta Nuggett @ Gallery Central

Event Title: Ngurntakura Wangki - Amy's Story by Amy Ngurnta Nuggett
Participating Artists: Amy Ngurnta Nuggett

Venue: Gallery Central, 12 Aberdeen St, Perth.

Description: First solo exhibition by senior Walmajarri artist, conveying
unique insights into her homelands and the journey she made with family from
the desert to the Kimberley's river country. Amy lives near Fitzroy
Crossing, WA, where she regularly paints at Mangkaja Arts.

Dates: 10 February 2014 to 1 March 2014.
Opening Times: Monday to Friday - 10am-4.45pm. Saturday 12-4.00pm. Talk:
2pm Saturday 15 Feb. Talk at launch: Fri 14 Feb.

For more information, contact: 94271318.

Dave Wolfy @ Bivouac Canteen and Bar

Event Title: Perspective.
Participating Artists: Dave Wolfy.

Venue: Bivouac Canteen and Bar, 198 William Street Northbridge WA 6003.

Description: 'Perspective' is Dave's first art display for 2014, and will
showcase a collection of thoughtful art pieces that he has been working on
for the past six months. The individually handcrafted, precise and
colourful pieces exemplify Dave's passion for design, structure and
engineering. On a deeper level the 'Perspective' collection represents
harmony, simple beauty, balance and a considerate merging of personalities.
The collection also pays homage to Dave's respectful views on urban
sustainability.

'Perspective' will open at Bivouac Canteen & Bar from Tuesday 28 January
2014. All artwork is for sale.

Dates: Opening 28 January 2014

Opening Times: Tuesday to Saturday 12pm till late

For more information, contact: davewolfyart@gmail.com.