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Year 12 Perspectives 2011

11 February - 9 April 2012


Mitchell Page
Canning Vale College
Lividly Vivid 2011 (detail)
photographic print
five parts, 75 x 103 cm each


  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.
 

Tom Malone Prize 2003 –2012 & Translucence: contemporary glass

17 December 2011 – 2 April 2012


Ola Hoglund and Marie Simberg-Hoglund
Sat 132 2008
State Art Collection, Art Gallery of Western Australia
Purchased through the Leah Jane Cohen Bequest, Art Gallery of Western Australia
Foundation, 2008

  2012 marks a decade of the Tom Malone Prize. This acquisitive award for Australian glass artists has been the platform for the Gallery to collect some of the best work being made in the country today. The combined exhibitions feature work by 2012’s shortlisted makers, all past winners and a selection of glass works from the State Art Collection.
 
Vast: north-west landscapes
26 October 2011 – 18 March 2012


Guy Grey-Smith
Skull Springs country 1966
oil and beeswax emulsion on hardboard
122 x 183 cm
State Art Collection, Art Gallery of Western Australia
Purchased 1967

  The opening up of northern Western Australia to mining exploration in the 1960s also opened up this terrain to artists – both literally by providing easier ways to access it physically by car and air, and imaginatively as a ‘new world’ to discover. Australian artists Russell Drysdale, Guy Grey-Smith, Robert Juniper, Sidney Nolan and many others travelled through the area at this time, and their practice often changed significantly as a result.
 

William Kentridge Shadow quartet

Now on display in the Gallery concourse


William Kentridge
Shadow quartet 2003-2004
bronze, edition 1/4
(quartet 1) 271.0 x 127.0 x 156.0 cm; (quartet 2) 272.0 x 144.0 x 150.0 cm; (quartet 3) 292.0 x 121.0 x 127.0 cm; (quartet 4) 252.0 x 105.0 x 157.0 cm
State Art Collection, Art Gallery of Western Australia
Commissioned with funds from the Art Gallery of Western Australia Foundation, 2002.
Principally supported by Wesfarmers Limited, the Friends of the Art Gallery and Janet Holmes à Court.

 

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.

 

 

 

Your Collection 1800 - today

NOW OPEN    


Kathleen O'Connor
Colour rhythm c1928
State Art Collection, Art Gallery of Western Australia
Purchased with funds from the Art Gallery of Western Australia Foundation, 1995
© Kathleen O’Connor c1928

 

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 will be 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.


 

 

 

 

 

 

Last reviewed 10 February 2012

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