Current Exhibitions
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David Walker: Anatomy of the object27 June - 18 October 2009 |
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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 |
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David Walker Space Frame 12 2001 3 ring bead pendants 925 silver oncast to steel frame, 5.5 x 4.2 x 5.5cm (pendant only) Collection of the artist © David Walker |
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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 - 200927 June - 18 October 2009 |
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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 |
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Mari Funaki Bracelet 7 2006 heat-coloured mild steel 6.8 x 11.1x 13cm Collection: Sandy Geyer Photo Jeremy Dillon |
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The Art Gallery of Western Australia is proud to be a partner of the City of Perth Winter Arts Season |
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18 April - 5 July 2009 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 20088 April - 19 July 2009 |
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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 |
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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-WardWall works8 April - 31 January 2010 |
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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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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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