In First Encounters, Jaimi Wright explores how four contemporary artists reimagine the VOC shipwreck archives, offering powerful new perspectives on colonial history, identity and memory.
Author Archives: Jaimi Wright
Reviews
A Ceramic Odyssey – Pippin Drysdale: Infinite Terrain
20 January 2026
Writer Jaimi Wright explores Pippin Drysdale’s Infinite Terrain at AGWA, a rich retrospective highlighting decades of ceramic innovation and connection to landscape.
Reviews
Over Exposure – Aaron Ashworth’s Debut is A Personal Reflection on a Digital Age
9 January 2026
Jaimi Wright reviews Aaron Ashworth’s debut exhibition Over Exposure at PS Art Space, a vivid exploration of nostalgia and the fragmented realities of the digital age through psychedelic oil paintings.
Reviews
Objet d’Art – Theo Koning Retrospective a Triumphant Tribute to Late Artist
11 December 2025
Objet d’Art is a vivid and affectionate tribute to the late Theo Koning, charting his evolution from painter to sculptor to irrepressible tinkerer of the everyday. Jaimi Wright explores the exhibition.
Reviews
Microfictions opens a portal to deep time at Vessel Contemporary
8 December 2025
In Microfictions, Hylozoic/Desires invite audiences into a contemplative drift through deep time, mapping shifting continents, memory and cosmic scale. Reviewer Jaimi Wright finds the work a rare blend of intimacy and immensity, offering a space to think far beyond the self.
Reviews
Cohesive Abstractions: OFFMarket Gallery Exhibits Collectible Delights in Mutina Editions
7 November 2025
Cover Image: Nathalie Du Pasquier, AUS 004, 2025. Giclée print on Canson Rag Photographique 310 gsm, 50 × 70 cm. Limited Edition of 20, designed for OFFMarket …
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A Deceptively Simple Need – A strong exhibition that needs more voices
23 October 2025
Jaimi Wright reviews Alana Hunt’s latest exhibition, A Deceptively Simple Need, on display at Perth Institute of Contemporary Art.
Features
A Weekend of Our Very Best – Perth Art Weekend is Back in 2025
16 October 2025
This weekend Perth will play host to the second annual Perth Art Weekend, a free, all-encompassing cultural smorgasbord of what Perth arts has to offer.
Spotlight
Eighteen Years Strong – The Lester Prize for Portraiture 2025
24 September 2025
Now in its eighteenth year, The Lester Prize for Portraiture showcases forty powerful finalist works, from Jenny Rodgerson’s winning self-portrait to bold community tributes. Review by Jaimi Wright.
Reviews
A Familiar Void: Abdul-Rahman Abdullah Ponders Deep Dualities at Moore Contemporary
10 September 2025
Abdul-Rahman Abdullah in his exhibition Omens, now on display at Moore Contemporary, navigates a nuanced existentialism through which he and his audience can explore meanings in life and death, sleep and dreams, consciousness and inevitability, and the delicate spaces in-between.
