^{Cover Image: AACHWA Revealed Aboriginal Art Market, WA Museum Boola Bardip, Boorloo (Perth), 2026. Photo: Luke Riley, courtesy of WA Museum.}

Revealed is back in Perth for 2026, bringing with it community, culture and Country. Presented by the Aboriginal Art Centre Hub Western Australia (AACHWA) in partnership with the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA) and WA Museum Boola Bardip, Revealed offers an extensive platform for new and emerging Aboriginal artists in Western Australia, as well as connection and insight for those looking to acquire Aboriginal art. 

This year’s showcase, Revealed’s eighteenth iteration, began on Saturday 18 April with an art market hosted by WA Museum Boola Bardip, with a counterpart exhibition at PICA running until Sunday 14 June. 

This year alone, Revealed 2026 has platformed more than 400 artworks from across the state, many by artists living in regional communities. All proceeds from the program go towards supporting Aboriginal artists, art centres and communities across Western Australia. 

“Revealed celebrates the incredible diversity and richness of Aboriginal art and cultures across the state, where traditional practices and contemporary life coexist,” says AACHWA CEO Chad Creighton. 

“As WA’s largest Aboriginal art showcase, we continue to forge new pathways that provide opportunity and income for artists and their communities.”

Included in this year’s Revealed program is Tjanpi Desert Weavers, a group of more than 400 Aboriginal women artists from 26 remote communities. Twenty of the weavers have created a series of collaboratively woven fibre works entitled Beep Beep! Driving All Around the Desert, representing the cultural importance of cars in remote Aboriginal communities. 

The fibres in these pieces are dyed and woven into playful iterations of real-life vehicles, a nod to the machines that provide essential connection for communities in outback Western Australia. 

Olive Lawson of Warburton, WA, said of these collaborative artworks: 

“Cars help people get around everywhere. They take people to the bush, to the shop, the clinic, HACC.”

“They take families to other communities for football, weekend drives and funerals. It gets really hot here, and we are a long way from the big cities, so having a good car with cooling is important. We make sure we take lots of water and a spare tyre. We can drive to the nearest big town, Laverton, where we can catch a bus to Kalgoorlie.”

The exhibition at PICA is curated by Whadjuk, Balladong and Wilman Noongar artist Zali Morgan, who says having an art market alongside an exhibition allows audiences to engage with the artists and their art in a genuine way: 

“I think it allows people to have a first-hand experience of yarning with the artists and understanding the scope of work the art centres support.”

“It’s a big one-day event, but because the exhibition is on for an extended period, people can further recognise and appreciate the works after having those yarns with the artists.”

Though the opportunity to buy artwork through the open-air market has passed, artworks in the exhibition are still available for purchase, providing a viable and direct opportunity for audiences to support the talent our vast state has to offer. 

Revealed Exhibition | PICA is on till the 15 June, Tuesday – Sunday, 12 – 5pm

First Nations Curating Panel: Thursday 11 June 5.30pm – 7.00pm

Visit Revealed.org,au for more.