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David Walker: Anatomy of the object

27 June - 18 October 2009

     

Art Gallery of WA - David Walker

 

David Walker is one of Western Australia’s most accomplished and influential designers and crafts people. David Walker: Anatomy of the object will reveal Walker’s profound fascination with the skeletal form as a vehicle for spatial and structural explorations, and his abiding commitment to find a form of expression born out of a sense of Australia. Works from the State Art Collection, private lenders and public institutions, as well as the artist’s personal collection, will be included... more

David Walker

Space Frame 12

2001

3 ring bead pendants

925 silver oncast to steel frame,
stainless steel, powder coated stainless steel

5.5 x 4.2 x 5.5cm (pendant only)

Collection of the artist

© David Walker

  City of Perth - Winter Arts Season

The Art Gallery of Western Australia

is proud to be a partner of the

City of Perth Winter Arts Season

     

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Mari Funaki, works 1992 - 2009

27 June - 18 October 2009

     

Mari Funaki, works 1992 - 2009

 

Mari Funaki is one of Australia's leading jewellers.  This exhibition celebrates her considerable achievements between 1992 and the present day.  Her first major show in a state gallery, it includes nearly fifty works and will be the first time Perth audiences have seen her work in such depth.  Many of these are new works produced especially for this show... more

Mari Funaki

Bracelet 7

2006

heat-coloured mild steel

6.8 x 11.1x 13cm

Collection: Sandy Geyer

Photo Jeremy Dillon

  City of Perth - Winter Arts Season

The Art Gallery of Western Australia

is proud to be a partner of the

City of Perth Winter Arts Season

     

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thing - beware the material world exhibition 18 April to 5 July 2009

18 April - 5 July 2009

     

Art Gallery of Western Australia - Cinderella table

 

THING beware the material world is a bold new exhibition of furniture, lighting, sculpture and photography from across the globe. The exhibition celebrates the human impulse to shape and re-shape the world around us. It includes works made from a range of processes including hi-tech machining, creative recycling and delicate handcrafting... more

Jeroen Verhoeven

Cinderella table 

2005

CNC-cut birch plywood

wood

80 x 132.1 x 101.6cm

State Art Collection, Art Gallery of Western Australia

Purchased 2008

  City of Perth - Winter Arts Season

The Art Gallery of Western Australia

is proud to be a partner of the

City of Perth Winter Arts Season

     

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Year 12 Perspectives 2008 - See the world through Year 12 eyes

Year 12 Perspectives 2008

8 April - 19 July 2009

     

 

The selection process has been finalized for Year 12 Perspectives 2008, and once again we have been struck by the diversity, dynamism and creativity of young artists in this state. 

Year 12 Perspectives has become a much-loved fixture on the Art Gallery’s annual calendar and is a showcase and forum for emerging talent to connect with the wider public and explore a range of subjects and themes important to young people today... more

 

Year 12 Perspectives IFAC Grant Winners... more

Rae Davis

Woodvale Senior High School TEE Art

Koko the clown

2008

oil on canvas

121.5 x 90 x 4 cm

   
     

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Helen Smith &

Jeremy Kirwan-Ward

Wall works

8 April - 31 January 2010

     

 

These two well-known and highly regarded Perth based artists created an art work in situ during the week of 30 March to 3 April 2009, and  visitors were able to see the wall work being installed. Wall works will be on display at the Art Gallery of Western Australia until 31 January 2010... more

     

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Wonderlust - New journeys Your Collection

Ongoing

 

John Longstaff

Breaking the news

1887

oil on canvas

109.7 x 152.8 cm

State Art Collection, Art Gallery of Western Australia

Purchased with funds from the Hackett Bequest Fund, 1933

 

Wonderlust is a dynamic presentation of the State Art Collection, featuring Indigenous, Australian and International art, craft and design acquired since the Gallery's inception in 1895.

The exhibition aims to transform the visitor's experience of, and access to, the Collection through new journeys of discovery organised around five key themes: Home, Mapping, Presence, Story and Material Gesture.

Wonderlust brings together painting, sculpture, photography, works on paper, craft and projections, which range in date from one of the earliest Western Australian works in the Collection, Frederick Garling's 1827 views of the Swan River, to recent works from 2006-2007 - such as Julie Dowling's painting of Indigenous resistance fighter, Yagan; contemporary sculpture by James Angus; and ceramics by Pru Venables... more

     

 

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