2012 Media Releases:

New York culture hits the streets of Perth this winter

Start spreading the news, the streets of Perth are about to come alive with New York’s vibrant
culture this winter.

In an exciting development for Perth, the Art Gallery of Western Australia (AGWA) has announced the six unique exhibitions that form the exclusive partnership series with New York’s prestigious Museum of  Modern Art (MoMA). As the only venue in the nation to display the works, the exhibitions at AGWA are set to transfix and captivate visitors, offering the unique opportunity to get up close and personal with some of the world’s most iconic works.

Gallery's Media Release

Minister's Media Release

Santos Year 12 Perspectives 2011 Winner is Caitlin Rash

4 April 2012

The Year 12 Perspectives 2011 Santos People’s Choice Award was awarded to Caitlin Rash whose work
Koi was voted the most popular by Gallery audiences. Over 28,000 people have visited this year’s exhibition, with thousands of votes cast.

John Anderson, Santos Vice President for WA and Northern Territory, presented Caitlin with her award and prize of a trip for two to the Art Gallery of South Australia for receiving the most votes from the WA
community.

Caitlin attended Applecross Senior High School. As part of her prize her school also received 30 tickets to visit the Picasso to Warhol: Fourteen Modern Masters exhibition from The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, opening at the Gallery in June this year. One lucky voter also wins a season pass for two to this first MoMA exhibition.

Gallery's Media Release

JEFF WALL Photographs

15 February 2012

On display at the Art Gallery of Western Australia 26 May to 10 September 2012

Jeff Wall is recognised throughout the world as one of the most innovative and influential artists
working today. JEFF WALL Photographs, this first Australian survey of his work brings together
twenty-six mostly large-scale photographs to present an overview of his extraordinary achievements
and features major works from over three decades of artistic and photographic innovation. Large and
luminous, his photographs have rewritten nearly every convention of photography. Wall’s outstanding
body of work has played a decisive role in establishing photography as the major contemporary art
form it is today.

Gallery's Media Release

Tom Malone Prize Winner 2012

10 February 2012

The Art Gallery of Western Australia is delighted to announce that the winner of the 2012 Tom Malone Prize for contemporary glass artists is Brian Corr for his work Ensō.

This year’s Prize was judged by Governor of the Art Gallery of Western Australia Foundation, Elizabeth Malone; AGWA’s Director, Stefano Carboni; glass artist, Klaus Moje; and AGWA’s Curator of Modern and Contemporary Photography and Design, Robert Cook.

Gallery's Media Release

Santos joins Perspectives as the new Principal Exhibition Sponsor

10 February 2012

The Art Gallery of WA is excited to announce that Santos Ltd (Santos) is the new Year 12 Perspectives Principal Exhibition Sponsor.

Year 12 Perspectives is a much loved WA institution. It showcases the emerging talent and creative passions of young Western Australians and gives our community a visual reflection of the issues, joys and concerns that occupy an emerging generation. The Gallery welcomes Santos for their support of this annual Gallery favourite.

Gallery's Media Release

Year 12 Perspectives 2011

10 February 2012

The Year 12 Perspectives exhibition is here! Once again this popular annual event provides the platform to showcase selected works from students graduating from Year 12 Visual Arts.

Year 12 Perspectives 2011 promises to deliver works of technical excellence and emotional complexity.
A judging panel compiled from representatives from the Education Department, the Curriculum Council of Western Australia, Catholic Education and the Art Gallery of WA have selected 55 varied works across a range of medium and subject matter. This year a general theme of relationships and connectivity appears to have evolved across the diverse selection.

Gallery's Media Release

Minister's Media Release

A new way to see Your Collection

31 January 2012

In an exciting new presentation, it is the first time Your Collection has been displayed chronologically; it traces art made in the early nineteenth century, locally and around the world, to the art of today. Your Collection 1800 – today brings together an extraordinary group of over 450 Western Australian  Indigenous and non-Indigenous, national and international art, craft and design from the State Art Collection. There are four principal areas of display which you can discover on the ground floors of both the Centenary Galleries and the main Gallery building.

Gallery's Media Release