Early WA on Display

Frederick Garling View across the coastal plain 1827. Watercolour and pencil, 13.2 x 37.5 cm. State Art Collection, Art Gallery of Western Australia. Purchased 1978.

Early WA on Display

Unknown Land: Mapping and Imagining Western Australia is the Art Gallery of WA’s summer exhibition giving Western Australians and visitors to WA, the opportunity to view WA through works by early European colonists.Traversing the west coast of Australia, this exhibition maps WA as seen through the eyes of those arriving from Europe in the early 1800s including professional artists, illustrators, surveyors, and explorers.

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On Saturday 27 August, the Gallery is open 10am-3pm only as we prepare for the AGWA Foundation Gala supporting women in the arts. Some exhibition access will be disrupted with two Tracks We Share ground floor galleries closed. AGWA Rooftop bar will be closed, reopening at 2pm Sunday. Details