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Tracks We Share Contemporary Art of the Pilbara Exhibition, Ngundamurri (detail) by Juluwarlu Art Group.jpg A group of sticks, some topped with stylised masks, and all decorated with puffs of what look like dried flowers stands in front of a screen, on which is projected a view of the sky. There are silhouettes of trees and people; it looks like it's been captured between frames and the people look a little ghostly. Walking through Country together

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Walking through Country together

1 June 2022

“Tracks We Share” takes the viewer on a breathtaking journey through stories of the First Peoples of the Pilbara, discovers Craig McKeough.

Three large men flex their muscles. The image is a negative and the figures are in darkness. They look like they're dancing. and each figure is tinted, one yellow, one blue and one red. Feast of art feeds local appetites

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Feast of art feeds local appetites

10 December 2020

It’s time to dump cultural cringe. This year’s visual arts program at Perth Festival is both bigger than before and almost 100% local. It’s exciting and a chance for everyone to put a little more art into their lives. Ara Jansen reports.

Sisi-Cynthia Ingenere (Corpus Christi College), 'Soul searching' 2019, mixed media, nineteen parts: dimensions variable One of three views of Sisi-Cynthia Ingenere’s sculpture. Pictured is a stylised silhouette of a woman, against a neon landscape. Youth pulse beats political

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Youth pulse beats political

24 August 2020

Perusing the Art Gallery of WA’s “Pulse Perspectives 2019”, Miranda Johnson finds that WA’s most recent crop of school graduates are facing the challenges of our time with a clear moral compass.

Jenny Watson
Horse series painting no. 9: with yellow rug 1974
oil, synthetic polymer paint and lead pencil on canvas
177.4 x 243.9 cm
State Art Collection, Art Gallery of Western Australia
Purchased 1988
Jenny Watson Horse series painting no. 9: with yellow rug 1974 oil, synthetic polymer paint and lead pencil on canvas 177.4 x 243.9 cm State Art Collection, Art Gallery of Western Australia Purchased 1988 Partying with colour and nostalgia

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Partying with colour and nostalgia

12 December 2019

Robert Cook (curator), ‘Perth Brutal: Dreaming in Concrete’; ‘That Seventies Feeling … the Late Modern’ ·
Art Gallery of WA ·
Review by Craig McKeough ·

Eveline Kotai
Living Forest 2019 (detail)
acrylic, giclee print, belgian
76 x 1200 cm
Courtesy of Artist and Art Collective WA Eveline Kotai Living Forest 2019 (detail) acrylic, giclee print, belgian 76 x 1200 cm Courtesy of Artist and Art Collective WA Permission to breathe

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Permission to breathe

14 October 2019

Review: Evelyn Kotai, “Breathing Pattern” Art Gallery of Western Australia Review by Lydia Edwards ⋅ “Breathing Pattern” is tucked away in a corner of the ground …

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Alexandra O'Brien
Iona Presentation College
I'm all ears 2018
oil on canvas, audio file and oil on headphones
three parts: two at 50.5 x 40.5 cm each; Headphones with audio: duration
2:42 min Taking the pulse of young artists

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Taking the pulse of young artists

2 May 2019

Review: ‘Pulse Perspectives’ · Art Gallery of Western Australia · Review by Lydia Edwards · There is a tendency, when it comes to exhibitions of under-18s’ …

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Intimate glimpses into humanity

9 November 2018

Review: Black Swan Prize for Portraiture · Art Gallery of Western Australia (AGWA) · Review by Lydia Edwards · Even amongst curators, art critics and historians, …

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Oron Catts & Ionat Zurr Land Snails – Biomess 2018 (detail) The Tissue Culture & Art Project Collection, Western Australian Museum A box of snails with a sign that says 'hermaphrodites'. A chance to wander and wonder

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A chance to wander and wonder

25 September 2018

Review: The Tissue Culture and Art Project review, “Biomess” · Art Gallery of Western Australia · Review by Miranda Johnson · Currently on show at the …

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Title: Disembodied Cuisine Installation
Artists: The Tissue Culture & Art (Oron Catts, Ionat Zurr & Guy Ben-Ary)
Medium: mix
Date: 2003
Photography: Axel Heise
Title: Disembodied Cuisine Installation Artists: The Tissue Culture & Art (Oron Catts, Ionat Zurr & Guy Ben-Ary) Medium: mix Date: 2003 Photography: Axel Heise A peek inside the lab

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A peek inside the lab

22 August 2018

A monstrous arts event is about to take place in Perth. Named “Unhallowed Arts”, it’s timed to celebrate the bicentenary of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and features …

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Sidney Nolan
The trial 1947
from the Ned Kelly series 1946 – 1947 enamel paint on composition board 90.70 x 121.20 cm
Gift of Sunday Reed 1977
National Gallery of Australia Sidney Nolan The trial 1947 from the Ned Kelly series 1946 – 1947 enamel paint on composition board 90.70 x 121.20 cm Gift of Sunday Reed 1977 National Gallery of Australia Sublime Sid and Ned: the painter and the painted

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Sublime Sid and Ned: the painter and the painted

10 August 2018

Ned Kelly was not just Sidney Nolan’s subject, but his alter ego, writes David Rainey. To coincide with the opening of “Sidney Nolan’s Ned Kelly Series” at the Art …

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