‘Stitched and Bound’ will turn your pre-conceived ideas about quilting upside down, says Jaimi Wright, in an exhibition that unpicks and upcycles tradition to catapult it into the 21st century.
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Taking it from the streets
21 September 2022
Can the havoc and exhilaration of graffiti survive relocation into a gallery? Kim Kirkman heads to the Art Gallery of Western Australia to find out.
Features
A crafty renaissance at the Perth Royal Show
16 September 2022
The Perth Royal Show’s creative arts competition has long been popular with the very young and very old, but with millennials embracing the art of craft, things are looking different. Ara Jansen reports.
Reviews
Celebrating 30 years of creative refuge
6 September 2022
Inside West Perth’s Holmes à Court Gallery Jaimi Wright is transported to Fitzroy Crossing’s Mangkaja arts centre by an exhibition that recognises the endurance of First Nations artists on Bunuba Muwayi Country.
What to SEE
Conjuring colour in glass
5 September 2022
Vibrant and vivid, Gerry Reilly’s fluid freeform glass sculptures, installations, ornaments and tableware are shot through with brilliant colours that swirl and eddy. Nina Levy took a step in the multi-coloured maelstrom to find out more.
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A series of uncomfortable events
31 August 2022
‘A Gentle Misinterpretation’ interrogates the problematic history of chinoiserie but Belinda Hermawan still feels uneasy.
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Humour and lightness at PICA amid pandemic gloom
29 August 2022
There’s much that’s relatable in a collection of works created by artists who were confined to WA by the COVID border restrictions, and Craig McKeough finds it surprisingly but pleasantly light-hearted.
Features
Facing off mining giants with art
17 August 2022
Unlikely weapons have enabled a group of Martu artists to create a powerful and plaintive appeal for the protection of their Country from the threat of uranium mining. Craig McKeough reports.
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Helen Seiver’s personal reconciliation
12 August 2022
There’s a tragic story behind Helen Seiver’s work for upcoming group exhibition “Tikvah (Hope)” at Mossenson Galleries. But it’s a story that culminates in a kind of peace, one found by defying familial stories.
What to SEE
What to SEE: ‘Annie You Are Okay’
4 August 2022
Emerging artist Isabel Bereczky draws on a century-old mystery and gives it a contemporary twist for her debut solo exhibition, as she attempts to reassure her subject, ‘Annie You Are Okay’.
