An Art on the Move touring exhibition from IOTA 24 explores art as a prescription for healing. Sarah-Jayne Eeles takes in the show in Esperance.
Author Archives: Sarah-Jayne Eeles
Features
The reawakening of a festival friend
1 February 2026
Sarah-Jayne Eeles reflects on the return of Geraldton’s Funtavia Festival, a grassroots celebration that helped reshape the city’s West End and creative identity.
Features
A vision of Radical Futures for regional WA
8 January 2026
Radical Futures: Nexus spotlights Goldfields artists reimagining community, culture, and connection across Western Australia’s vast regions. Curated locally and born from collaborative workshops, the exhibition explores place‑based challenges and aspirational paths forward through diverse media. Written by Sarah‑Jayne Eeles.
Reviews
Golden Breadcrumbs: Tamorin Lavers maps art, memory and gold in Kalgoorlie
17 December 2025
Artist Tamorin Lavers turns GPS trails, gold prospecting and lived experience into a quietly joyful exhibition, writes Sarah-Jayne Eeles.
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Vibrant WA landscapes inspire an exhibition bursting with colour
27 November 2025
Seesaw chats with Goldfields artist Em Anders distills a decade of roaming WA into WAnderer, a bold debut exhibition at Artgold that merges surreal imagery with the colour and character of regional life.
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Disaster, delirium and nonstop laughs in The Play That Goes Wrong
18 November 2025
A perfectly calibrated chaos-fest, The Play That Goes Wrong delivers wall-to-wall gags, collapsing sets and riotous comic timing. In her review, Sarah-Jayne Eeles finds the latest Australian tour as sharp, silly and side-splitting as ever.
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A career capturing WA stories on film: documentary filmmaker Jennene Riggs
12 November 2025
Esperance-based documentary filmmaker, Jennene Riggs, has spent more than two decades capturing Western Australia’s natural world and history through her craft.
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Goldfields Arts Centre Welcomes Chilean Artist José Bacarreza
26 September 2025
Chilean artist José Bacarreza transforms the Goldfields Arts Centre into a living studio during his residency, writes Sarah-Jayne Eeles.
Reviews
Swing Into the Night! A Perth Symphony Orchestra Big Band Experience
18 September 2025
Swing Into the Night! Was a Perth Symphony Orchestra big band performance as part of the City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder’s new Kaleidoscope festival. A weekend of celebrating community, creativity and culture.
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Known as a ‘Mining Town’, Kalgoorlie-Boulder also champions the arts with its renown annual Art Prize.
17 September 2025
The Kalgoorlie-Boulder Art Prize, with a history of more than 30 years, is an annual acquisitional competition open to artists nationwide, showcasing painting, sculpture, photography, textiles and mixed media.
