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Aub Melrose / Tony Humphry collectionLinde Ivemey - Syndicate 5 + 1 Survey Untold secrets and imagined landscapes
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Untold secrets and imagined landscapes

29 June 2023

Linde Ivimey’s captivating sculptures and Susan Roux’s striking large scale paper works make for a rich and rewarding experience at Art Collective WA, discovers Craig McKeough.

Reading time • 6 minutesVisual Art
Clay-Chase-Injured-heart-2022-photography-and-textiles-90-x-190-x-3-cm-Perth-Modern-School-Photo-Rebecca-Mansell.jpg A young person lies on the floor, draped in soft sculptured yellow hearts. Youth Pulse beats bright
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Youth Pulse beats bright

27 June 2023

The breadth of talent on display in this year’s exhibition of Year 12 graduate work leaves Jaimi Wright assured that the future of WA art is in safe hands.

Reading time • 7 minutesVisual Art
Tjyllyungoo Lance Chadd, Ngoorlark, 2020. Acrylic on Belgian linen. City of Joondalup Art Collection. Photo Christophe Canato. What to SEE: For Our Elders
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What to SEE: For Our Elders

21 June 2023

Emerging artist and curator Zali Morgan wants to shake up audience expectations of First Nations art. Curating the City of Joondalup’s NAIDOC exhibition For Our Elders is giving her the chance to do just that.

Reading time • 10 minutesVisual Art
Sid Pattni Two portraits by Sid Pattni. On the right is a man of colour, perhaps of African descent, on the left a woman in a hijab. Both are painted against vibrant orange backgrounds, with colourful squiggly lines over their faces. Stitching the stories of refugees
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Stitching the stories of refugees

12 June 2023

While refugees are visible in the media, their individual stories are often unheard. This paradox drove artist Sid Pattni to create a new immersive exhibition that brings the experiences of refugees and asylum seekers to light.

Reading time • 9 minutesVisual Art
A work from Revealed, which depicts the Perth skyline bathed in red. In the foreground are indigenous plants, silhouetted against the firey sky. A large white images of an Aboriginal elder hovers like a ghost superimposed over the scene. An exhibition that will ignite your liyarn
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An exhibition that will ignite your liyarn

7 June 2023

You’ll want more than one visit to absorb the invigorating array of art works by Aboriginal artists, on display in this year’s iteration of Revealed at Fremantle Arts Centre, says Savannah Travia-Dann.

Reading time • 6 minutesVisual Art
Khashayar Salmanzadeh (WA), Love Beyond Emotion, installation view, Hatched National Graduate Show, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, 2023, photo Dan McCabe_01 Painting an open love letter
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Painting an open love letter

2 June 2023

Vibrant and vital, Khashayar Salmanzadeh’s large scale portraits of members of Perth’s Bahá’í community both explore and radiate love.

Reading time • 9 minutesVisual Art
Portraits of youth are a pleasure to behold
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Portraits of youth are a pleasure to behold

29 May 2023

Whether tender, disturbing, humorous or hopeful, the portraits by Australian high school students in this year’s Lester Youth Prize Awards impress teen critic Bethany Stopher.

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Bold and striking art from Hatchlings
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Bold and striking art from Hatchlings

24 May 2023

From weaponised jewellery to hand-blown glass breaths, cosplay to vibrant projections, top graduates from our nation’s arts schools have created works that are variously immersive, disruptive and discomforting, writes Belinda Hermawan.

Reading time • 6 minutesVisual Art
Reading time • 6 minutesVisual Art
The paper folding in Natalie Blom's 'Similar but not quite (echoes in the void)' (2023) is a fitting nod to the multi-faceted nature of memory.

 A piece of paper, printed with photographs of a young woman, is folded into a multifaceted, geometrical shape. Finding presence in absence
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Finding presence in absence

19 April 2023

Though bemused by its installation choices, Belinda Hermawan finds some thought-provoking art works in Tracing Absence, an exhibition that explores loss.

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