Current Exhibitions
Year 12 Perspectives 2012 |
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7 March - 30 June 2013 Year 12 Perspectives is your yearly taste of art by the best, brightest and most talented graduating high school artists in the State. An annual barometer of what our youth are thinking and feeling, it is also a rich celebration of the role the arts play in the development of individual identities. |
Tayla Tatonetti |
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24 November 2012 - 30 June 2013 Made to Remember is a zone in Indigenous art practice where objects can be seen as innovative, unusual and fundamentally unique. Made to Remember scrutinises these practices, and examines the complexity of relationships between utilitarian objects of work (such as baskets), objects made purely for pleasure and aesthetic satisfaction, and objects designed to aid in worship or to fulfill ritual obligation. Contemporary objects made from found materials (designed to reflect political or historical purposes, and objects ‘du jour’, made en masse according to the desires of the market) have stimulated a new dialogue regarding the use of Indigenous-made object as sustainable fiscal means or as a tool of reformation and change. These too have complicated and often difficult relationships with their maker and the wider public. |
Jenni Kemarre Martinello glass, 48 x 30.4 cm Art Gallery of Western Australia Foundation, 2012 © Jenni Kemarre Martinello, 2012 |
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Ongoing |
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Your Collection 1800 – today marks a new beginning for the presentation of the State Art Collection. For the first time in the Gallery’s history, the Collection is presented in a series of interconnected chronological displays, starting in the Centenary Galleries and from 2011 progressively throughout the entire ground floor of the main Gallery. Your Collection brings together Indigenous and non-Indigenous art, craft and design from international, national and Western Australian contexts in new conversations.
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William Kentridge Shadow quartetOn display in the Gallery concourse |
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South African artist William Kentridge is one of the most compelling artists of our time. His work spans an extraordinary range encompassing drawing, sculpture, film, opera, tapestry and more. Your Collection has eighteen works by Kentridge, including four large bronzes commissioned as a group in 2002 with funds raised by the Art Gallery of Western Australia Foundation. This commission created the opportunity for Kentridge to realise for Perth the monumental-scale sculpture entitled Shadow quartet. |
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Last reviewed 14 May 2013
