Jaimi Wright reviews Alana Hunt’s latest exhibition, A Deceptively Simple Need, on display at Perth Institute of Contemporary Art.
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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.
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Modern masters and ancient traditions: Vessels, Where do We Truly Belong and Ripairian at Midland Junction Arts Centre
7 October 2025
Clay-based exhibitions in Midland shape stories of connection aligned with the recent Wedge 2025: The Australian Ceramics Triennale, writes Stephen Bevis
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Invitation Art Prize finds a new home at Joondalup Contemporary Art Gallery
6 October 2025
After 27 years of championing Western Australian contemporary art, the Invitation Art Prize has begun an exciting new chapter at Perth’s recently opened Joondalup Contemporary Art Gallery.
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From Carnavon to Venice: Sabrina Dowling Giudici’s glass art inspired by the land and sea
1 October 2025
Italian Australian glass artist Sabrina Dowling Giudici has long been a creative force in Western Australia’s Gascoyne Region, where she weaves together ecology, heritage, and storytelling through her distinctive kiln-formed glass. Leanne Casellas talks to the artist after featuring in this year’s The Venice Glass Week.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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A crystal ball for Australian contemporary art: the Hatched National Graduate Show 2025
11 September 2025
Stepping out of the lift, you’re confronted with a vast, 3000sqm brutalist playground punctuated by scattered art installations and guarded by huge snakes of insulated ductwork. Welcome to Hatched: National Graduate Show 2025.
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.
