Chilean artist José Bacarreza transforms the Goldfields Arts Centre into a living studio during his residency, writes Sarah-Jayne Eeles.
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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.
Spotlight
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.
Reviews
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.
Reviews
Shaun Tan’s Fantastical Suburbia on display at CinefestOz
3 September 2025
Tales From Outer Suburbia is an anthology of fifteen short, illustrated stories that were inspired by Shaun Tan’s memories of growing up in Perth northern suburbs in the 1980s. Nearly twenty years later, Tan’s book is the focus of an exclusive exhibition of prints at the Margaret River HEART, and a preview of a TV series at CinefestOz.
Spotlight
Artists on culture, country and diversity at the 12th Margaret River Region Open Studios
21 August 2025
In this special spotlight interview series, Daniela Palitos explores Margaret River Region Open Studios 2025 through the eyes of its talented artists.
Reviews
Elise Blumann’s Music in Motion: Modernism Meets WA’s Landscape
11 August 2025
In Elise Blumann: Music in Motion, William Yeoman explores AGWA’s intimate survey of the Berlin-trained artist’s work, revealing rarely-seen pieces and a career-long dialogue between movement, nature and modernism.
Reviews
Coastlines and collaboration: Regenerative Strategies by Gian Manik
8 August 2025
Visual artist Gian Manik joins forces with Fremantle Primary School students in Regenerative Strategies, a strikingly poetic exhibition at The Naval Store, writes Jaimi Wright.
Features
The National Collection Meets Local Inspiration:The Perth Galleries Taking the National Collection Out West
16 July 2025
Jaimi Wright explores how touring exhibitions from the National Gallery of Australia are transforming local engagement in WA, from Warhol in Wanneroo to women artists at Lawrence Wilson and Nan Goldin at John Curtin Gallery.
