Current Exhibitions
Year 12 Perspectives 201111 February - 9 April 2012 |
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Mitchell Page
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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. |
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Tom Malone Prize 2003 –2012 & Translucence: contemporary glass17 December 2011 – 2 April 2012 |
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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 |
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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 quartetNow on 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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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.
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Last reviewed 10 February 2012
