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WA Now – Julie Dowling – Babanyu (Friends for life)© 2017 Art Gallery of Western Australia Download the PDF |
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WA now – gregory pryor – Looking Glass© 2017 Art Gallery of Western Australia Download the PDF |
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contemporary australian glassThe Tom Malone Prize 2003-2017Authors: Various © The Art Gallery of western Australia 2017 ISBN: 978-0-6481062-0-3 Price: $29.95 Available at the Gallery Shop |
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WA Focus – nathan beard© 2017 Art Gallery of Western Australia Download the PDF |
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year 12 perspectives 2016© 2016 Art Gallery of Western Australia Download the PDF |
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WA Focus – Finlandisation Juha Tolonen© 2016 Art Gallery of Western Australia Download the PDF |
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wa focus – rebecca baumann© 2016 Art Gallery of Western Australia Download the PDF |
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Luminous: tom malone prize 2016Author: Robert Cook © 2016 Art Gallery of Western Australia Download the PDF |
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WA Focus – TR + AS + JW | Trevor richards, alex spremberg and jurek wybraniec© The Art Gallery of Western Australia 2016 Download the PDF |
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year 12 perspectives 2015© 2016 Art Gallery of Western Australia Download the PDF |
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WA Focus – Graham miller© The Art Gallery of Western Australia 2015 Download the PDF |
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treasure ships: art in the age of spicesAuthors: James Bennett & Russell Kelty © The Art Gallery of South Australia 2014 ISBN: 978-1-921668-22-7 Price: $35 Available at the Gallery Shop |
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Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards 2015Authors: Clotilde Bullen, Amy-Barrett-Lennard, Carly Lane & Kimberley Moulton © The Art Gallery of Western Australia 2015 ISBN: 978-0-9870804-9-3 Price: $29.95 Available at the Gallery Shop |
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WA Focus – Helen Smith© The Art Gallery of Western Australia 2015 Download the PDF |
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year 12 perspectives 2014© 2015 Art Gallery of Western Australia Download the PDF |
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tom malone prize 2015Author: Robert Cook © 2015 Art Gallery of Western Australia Download the PDF |
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GUy Grey-Smith: Art as LifeAuthor: Melissa Harpley ISBN: 978-0-9870804-8-6 © The Art Gallery of Western Australia 2014 SOLD OUT
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Year 12 Perspectives 2013© 2014 Art Gallery of Western Australia Download the PDF |
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Tom Malone Prize 2014Author: Robert Cook © 2014 Art Gallery of Western Australia Download the PDF |
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Van Gogh, Dalí and Beyond: The World ReimaginedSamantha Friedman © The Museum of Modern Art Price: $5 Available at the Gallery Shop Download a preview here |
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Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards 2013 Author: Clotilde Bullen, Hetti Perkins, John Barrett-Lennard, Carly Lane and Alana Hunt ISBN: 978-0-9870804-7-9 © 2013 Art Gallery of Western Australia SOLD OUT |
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Year 12 Perspectives 2012© 2013 Art Gallery of Western Australia Download the PDF |
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Picturing New YorkSarah Hermanson Meister © The Museum of Modern Art SOLD OUT
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tom malone prize 2013Author: Robert Cook © 2013 Art Gallery of Western Australia Download the PDF |
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luminous world:contemporary art from the wesfarmers collectionEditor: Janet Blagg ISBN: 9781922089090 (pbk.) © Wesfarmers Limited 2012 Price: $40 Available from the Gallery Shop |
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Picasso to Warhol: Fourteen modern mastersJodi Hauptman ISBN: 978-0-87070-841-1 © 2012 The Museum of Modern Art, New York SOLD OUT |
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Jeff Wall photographsAuthor: Gary Dufour, Isobel Crombie and Mark Bolland © National Gallery of Victoria 2012 ISBN: 9780724103546 (pbk.) Price: $5 Available at the Gallery Shop |
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Made to RememberAuthor: Clotilde Bullen © 2012 Art Gallery of Western Australia Price: $5 Available at the Gallery Shop Showcasing a diverse selection of works including glass and ceramic objects, textiles and clothing, as well as examples of traditional sculpture. |
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Tom Malone Prize 2012Author: Robert Cook © 2012 Art Gallery of Western Australia Price: $5 Available at the Gallery Shop 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. |
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Princely Treasures: European Masterpieces 1600 - 1800from the Victoria and Albert MuseumEditor: Sarah Medlam and Lesley Ellis Miller © The Board of Trustees of the Victoria and Albert Museum, 2011 ISBN: 978-1-85177-633-7 Price: $5 Available at the Gallery Shop An informative and lavishly illustrated exhibition book accompanies this exhibition – a great collector’s item for the art lover, and a wonderful gift idea; couple it with a ticket to the exhibition and you have the perfect gift for that person "who has everything". |
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Translucence contemporary glassAuthor: Robert Cook © 2011 Art Gallery of Western Australia ISBN: 978-0-9870804-5-5 SOLD OUT Translucence: contemporary glass exhibited 45 works by 36 artists. Comprised of all past winners of the prize and important glass works from the State Art Collection including; Klaus Moje, Toni Warbuton, Josiah McElheny, Charles Butcher, Dale Chihuly and Kevin Gordon. |
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Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards 2011Author: Tina Baum, Robert Cook, Glenn Iseger-Pilkington, Ian McLean, Howard Morphy © 2011 Art Gallery of Western Australia ISBN: 978-0-9870804-4-8 |
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William Kentridge Shadow quartetAuthor: Gary Dufour © 2011 Art Gallery of Western Australia ISBN: 978-0-9870804-2-4 Available from the Gallery Shop Shadow quartet forms an ensemble of four individual sculptures; each one of the figures is actually a cluster of multiple shadow figures with different personas that appear and disappear as you move around and between them. Ambiguity, recognition and deception are intertwined in Shadow quartet, as each sculpture morphs playfully from one persona to another, from one individual to many, changing before your eyes – animated by your movement. Shadow quartet therefore creates continuous and surprising perceptual discoveries of recognition and transformations, and great visual pleasure. |
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Plates, blocks and stonesAuthor: Lucy Harper © 2011 Art Gallery of Western Australia ISBN: 978-0-9870804-3-1 Available from the Gallery Shop This display brings together 88 rarely seen international prints from the State Art Collection. Featuring works produced over five centuries by some of the most influential artists in Western art, their delicacy, power and technical skill celebrate the art and craft of printmaking. The array of printmaking techniques is compelling and reveals the distinct means of expression of the print. |
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remixAuthor: Robert Cook, Jenepher Duncan, Gregory Pryor & Tracy Ryan © 2011 Art Gallery of Western Australia ISBN: 978-0-9806268-9-6 Available from the Gallery Shop remix is an exciting exhibition that showcases the creativity of twenty contemporary Western Australian artists of diverse backgrounds, age and experience. The exhibition includes a broad mix of media with painting, sculpture, design, photography, textile and filmic work, most of it new or recently created and representing some of the most compelling examples of contemporary practice by Western Australian artists. Like the mixtape exhibitions in 2003 and 2006, remix brings together a diverse group of works that offer an opportunity to experience what some of Western Australia’s artists are doing in their practice. The works selected are not limited by a single theme but instead are orchestrated around approaches to making art, materiality or the experience of place. Above all, remix aims to delight and engage anyone interested in sampling what is happening now in contemporary art in Western Australia. |
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Year 12 Perspectives 2010Author: Robert Cook © 2011 Art Gallery of Western Australia ISBN: 978-0-9806268-9-9 Available from the Gallery Shop |
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Peggy guggenheim: A collection in VeniceAuthor: Philip Rylands and Grazina Subelyte © 2010 Art Gallery of Western Australia ISBN: 9780980626865 Available from the Gallery Shop The publication explores Peggy Guggenheim's collection of paintings and sculptures, which includes the works of artists who are now household names, such as Picasso, Brancusi, Giacometti, Magritte, Ernst, Rothko and Pollock. Peggy Guggenheim: A Collection in Venice offers both a fantastic overview of European and American abstract and Expressionist art from the 1910s to the 1950s and an insightful look into Peggy Guggenheims atypical personality and her patronage and passions as a collector. Written by Philip Rylands and Grazina Subelyte with a forward by Stefano Carboni, Richard Armstrong and Philip Rylands. |
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Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards 2010Author: Glenn Iseger-Pilkington, Jonathan Jones, Brenda L. Loft, Stephen Gilchrist and Clotilde Bullen © 2010 Art Gallery of Western Australia ISBN: 978-0-9806268-7-2 Available from the Gallery Shop The Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards is a national art award founded in 2008 to celebrate the diversity and richness of Indigenous art from across the country. In its third year, the Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards has gone from strength to strength, with 185 nominations received this year from arts organisations nationally.
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PATRICIA PICCININI: RELATIVITYAuthor: Juliana Engberg (except Aloft) Various authors © 2010 Art Gallery of Western Australia ISBN: 978-0-9806268-5-8 Available from the Gallery Shop The Art Gallery of Western Australia is very pleased to present this major exhibition Patricia Piccinini's RELATIVITY is the first major survey of the artist's sculptural works to be shown in Western Australia. The design and presentation of the exhibition were shaped to respond to the architectural context of the gallery, and a major new site-specific work was created to engage with the large volumetric space of the building's concourse area. |
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McCubbin: Last Impressions 1907-17Author: Anne Gray with an introduction by Ron Radford © 2009 ISBN: 9780642334039 SOLD OUT The publication traces the radical changes in McCubbin’s work—after viewing the works of JMW Turner, Claude Monet and John Constable in London and Paris in 1907—and seeks to redefine this important Australian artist, showing the way he developed a freer and more expressive art through his handling of paint and use of right glowing colours. Written by Anne Gray with an introduction by Ron Radford and contributions from Helen Brack, Rebecca Andrews, Jane Clark, Tracy Cooper- Lavery, Mary Eagle, Beatrice Gralton, Melissa Harpley, Samantha Littley, Tracey Lock-Weir, Lisa Sullivan, Elena Taylor and Penny Teale. |
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Year 12 Perspectives 2009
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Abstract Earth: a view from aboveAuthor: Richard Woldendorp © 2008 ISBN: 978-1-9213613-1-9 SOLD OUT Richard Woldendorp is one of Australia"s leading photographers. For more than 40 years he has documented the country"s unique landscape from the sky as a pioneer of aerial photography. Intrigued by the uniqueness of the Australian landscape, Dutch born Richard Woldendorp became a landscape photographer with a strong interest in aerial photography, which he feels captures the vastness of the outback best. This latest book of photography by Richard Woldendorp spans the last |
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Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards 2009Author: Clotilde Bullen, Stefano Carboni, Brenda Croft, Carly Lane, Keith Munro and Judith Ryan © 2009 ISBN: 978-0-9806268-2-7 SOLD OUT |
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THING beware the material worldAuthor: Robert Cook © 2009 ISBN: 978-0-9806268-0-3 Price: $5 Available from the Gallery Shop THING beware the material world. Much more than an exhibition of furniture, lighting, sculpture, textiles and photography, it celebrates the human impulse to shape and re-shape the matter that makes our worlds. In presenting an array of distinct and dynamic work across such media, it is intended to be a platform for thought and discussion about the meaning of making as it impacts on our encounters with design and craft in particular, and objects in general. The works are made from a range of processes including hi-tech machining, creative recycling and delicate handcrafting. |
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Year 12 Perspectives 2008Author: Clotilde Bullen © 2009 ISBN: 978-0-9803266-8-0 SOLD OUT The exhibition included 56 works which were selected from across the state, and in a continuing commitment to cross-cultural engagement, 17 works from young artists in Japan also feature in the exhibition, through the generous support of the International Foundation for Arts and Culture. These works include elegant calligraphic scrolls and diverse mixed media works. |
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Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards 2008Author: Gary Dufour, Carly Lane, Susan Lowish, Ian McLean, Djon Mundine and Tiwi Design © 2008 ISBN: 978-0-9803266-7-3 SOLD OUT |
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Raised By WolvesAuthor: Robert Cook, Jenepher Duncan, Clotilde Bullen and Melissa Harpley © 2007 ISBN: 9780980326604 Available from the Gallery Shop Raised by Wolves is a visual invitation to consider different configurations of the human family and their personal, social and political implications. A richly immersive experience composed of photographs, drawings, video projections, sculptures and paintings, the exhibition features twenty-six international and Australian artists from several generations. The selected works depict moments of family celebration and unity, social and peer groupings as alternative families, the effects of family breakdown, and the geopolitical dynamics that have tended at times to celebrate families. |
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Western Desert SatellitesAuthor: Clotilde Bullen © 2006 ISBN: 0-9758098-4-9 SOLD OUT This stunning collection of works spans almost forty years, and emphasises the connections between country, community and story. Western Desert stories are linked with one another and spread in specific ways across a large area of land. Artworks from this region are a reflection of geographical location, communal and familial networks and grounded spirituality. There are commonalities of narrative but an enormous diversity in the expression of those stories, which presents a challenge as well as a visual adventure to the viewer. |
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Norman Lindsay: Drawn to WomenThe Complete Published Etchings Author: Melissa Harpley © 2006 ISBN: 0975809873 Price: $10 Available from the Gallery Shop Norman Lindsay was one of Australia's most important artists. He was very prolific both as an artist and as a writer, but he is also significant for changing forever the understanding of what it meant to be an artist in Australia. Lindsay was a complex figure: admired for the extraordinary skill as a draughtsman that he revealed in his drawings and etchings, enjoyed for the humour in his writing and at the same time reviled for his deliberate attacks on the public morality of middle-class Australia. |
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Edge of Desire: Recent Art in IndiaAuthor: Chaitanya Sambrani © 2005 ISBN: 0878481001 SOLD OUT Edge of Desire: Recent Art in India focuses on contemporary Indian art running from 1993 - 2003, a period marked by enormous social, cultural, and economic change that counted political violence and rapid economic growth brought about by liberalization and foreign investment among the most significant. This decade has seen the undermining of certitudes and aspirations fundamental to the struggle for self-determination and the establishment of a secular, socialist democracy. This period has also seen a growth in India's international prominence. These factors have inevitably influenced major changes in visual culture. |
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St Petersburg 1900Author: Alan Dodge © 2005 ISBN: 0-9750168-9-X Price: $10 Available from the Gallery Shop Seldom in history do the stars line up to form a field of creative energy that marks a great period of cultural output. As Russia greeted the twentieth century, the juxtaposition of the old imperial system in St Petersburg and the dizzying array of new ideas burst onto the scene. Coupled with social and political unrest and the dying days of elegance and extravagance in the imperial capital, St Petersburg and all Russia became a hotbed of creativity. |
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Mix Tape 15 WA ArtistsAuthor: Tara Brabazon, Robert Cook, Jenepher Duncan and Edmund Tadros © 2005 ISBN:
0975809814 Price: $5 Available from the Gallery Shop 'mix tape' captures aspects of Western Australian art as it is configured today. It features a mix of artists from young to senior, working over many media and artistic attitudes. Conceived, as the title suggests, in a way akin to the mix tapes that we send to people, that we share music on, it is an idiosyncratic blend, not intended to be comprehensive survey. Rather it conveys the sense of intimacy and adventure found in a mix tape. It captures a sense of surprise in seeing a range of artists' work you would not have expected to see together in the same space. |
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Sunshine and Shadow: AB Webb and the poetics of place
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Howard Taylor, Phenomena
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South West Central: Indigenous art from south Western Australia 1833 - 2002Author: Brenda L. Croft, Gurindji/Mudpurra communities, Northern Territory and Janda Gooding © 2003 ISBN: 0-9750168-0-6 SOLD OUT Embracing a period of nearly two centuries, South West Central, includes a reproduction of an 1833 ink drawing by Gyallipurt and twenty-first-century digital re-takes on colonial representations by Dianne Jones. In between is a myriad of outstanding visual expressions by Nyoongar artists that reveal their relationships to their communities and traditional lands. Most painfully, they recall the forcing of people from their traditional lands into fringe camps, the destruction of their traditional practices and their being rendered invisible in their own country. |
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Traces of Genius: Drawings from the Amsterdam Historisch MuseumAuthor: Jeroen E Jurjens and Norbert E Middelkoop © 2003 SOLD OUT In the Spring of 2000 an exhibition to showcase the highlights of the Amsterdam Historical Museum's collection of old-master drawings was being prepared, their high quality led to talks about bringing a selection of the treasures to Perth. It was a natural fit with both past history and future directions, for the Art Gallery of WA has a longstanding commitment to contemporary drawing practice. The personal selection of drawings made by Dr Simon H Levie, former Director of the Amsterdam Historical Museum and the Rijksmuseum, from the rich drawing collection means that, for the first time, audiences outside The Netherlands can enjoy the quality and diversity of this fine collection. |
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StripTEASE Max PamAuthor: Robert Cook © 2002 ISBN: 0-7309-3630-9 SOLD OUT StripTEASE offers an in-depth look at the work of Perth-based photographer Max Pam. Covering over thirty years of practice, this exhibition showcases Pam's black and white photographs from the 1970s to the 1990s alongside his more recent, sumptuous colour pictures. His subject-matter embraces a large chunk of the world, yet, as his work is far better known outside Australia, it is important that this exhibition was created to be seen within his own country. With this, all of Pam's work, whether made at home or on the road, lives on in the imagination, activating the synapses, and eroticising our involvement with the world. For Max Pam as for those who find themselves caught up in the lure of his photography, the striptease will never be over...... |
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HomeArt Gallery of Western Australia Author: Trevor Smith, Thomas Mulcaire and Gary Dufour © 2000 ISBN: 0-7309-3627-9 Price: $5 Available from the Gallery Shop Realising that dialogue can only emerge out of shared interests and concerns, 'home' expands upon the uncertainties of belonging precisely at a time when these concepts are being reformulated by the persistent pressures of ethnicity, race, nationalism, and globalism. The exhibition develops from the social, artistic and historical particularities of South Africa and Western Australia. It attempts to destroy the disjunctions of distance and open up a trans-regional conversation between artists. Particular artists, works and practices are woven into dialogues, conversations and exchanges sustained beyond notions of territories and borders. |
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Susan NorrieAuthor: Trevor Smith and Gary Dufour © 1998 ISBN: 0-7309-3624-4 SOLD OUT Whether you turn to her paintings, installations or video projections, Susan Norris' work is haunted by the human body. Figures surface in extravagantly layered oil paint or float Ophelia-like beneath a video of a viscous oil slick. Anthropomorphic animals become portraits of pathos and passion, greed and gluttony. Powerful metaphors of concentration are embodied in historical figures. The images and subjects in her recent videos and installations are allusive, hovering just beyond the threshold of immediate or complete recognition. The lavish surfaces offer glimpses of other times and particular histories. The space created is for exploration, remembering and discovery. |
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Nature As Object: Craft and Design from Japan, Finland and AustraliaAuthor: Robert Bell © 1998 ISBN: 073093621 SOLD OUT The outstanding material cultures of Japan, Finland and Australia are shaped in response to their unique natural environments. 'Nature as Object' focuses on the innovation and influence of contemporary craft artists and designers in each of these countries. By tracing similarities of approach the exhibition brings together objects from specific natural and cultural environments which transcend the boundaries of locality. |
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The Golden Age of Dutch Art: Seventeenth Century Paintings From The Rijksmuseum And Australian CollectionsAuthor: Norbert Middelkoop © 1997 ISBN:
0730936163 SOLD OUT The Dutch paintings seen in this exhibition date from the years between 1616 and 1697, a period which encompasses the Dutch arrival on Australian coasts. The artists from the age of the Dutch explorers expressed not only the potential of the world around them but also the artistic possibilities that lay in people and their place in the world, as well as in the objects and the landscape around them. In their manner of painting, these artists explored their individual potentials. At the same time this seventeenth-century Dutch art also reveals the cohesion within a small community. In their splendid works, the highly skilled painters of the Golden Dutch Age record and recall for us major events and personalities. |
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Design VisionsAuthor: Robert Bell © 1992 ISBN: 0730936031 SOLD OUT Design Visions is a collection of ideas which have been given a compelling reality by 111 artists from thirteen countries, working in the areas of glass, metal jewellery, ceramics, textiles and furniture. Grouped in various sections, these dramatic and innovative objects reflect a changing vision of the world. |
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Douglas Chambers: A SurveyAuthor: Margaret Moore © 1991 ISBN: 0730936015 SOLD OUT The gamut of human emotions runs through Chambers' art because it is so connected to his life. His iconography becomes a a key to unraveling narratives as well as a key to a state of mind, with all the attendant vacillations of mood and spirit. There is a melancholy and then there is also unbridled humour. There is intimacy conveyed in his line drawings and his later studies of women range from tender to the almost voyeuristic. Repeated appearances of certain motifs in various works also help to construct meanings. |
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Perth International Crafts TrennialAuthor: Robert Bell ©1989 ISSN: 1034-8859 SOLD OUT In both scale and focus the Perth International Crafts Triennial brings new vigour to Australian organised international exhibitions. It provides an illuminating account of three selected media and also serves as a forum for dialogue between four different continents. This Triennial demonstrated the Art Gallery of Western Australia's commitment to contemporary practice as well as the expertise of its staff. Robert Bell accepted the challenge to develop a concept and determine the framework for an ambitious exhibition highlighting new directions in world craft practice. |
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Monet & JapanAuthor: Virginia Spate, David Bromfield, Gary Hickey and Akiki Mabuchi © 2001 ISBN: 0-642-54129-9 SOLD OUT
Monet never traveled to Japan, but surrounded himself with a large collection of Japanese woodblock prints. From as early as the 1870's, critics commented on the influence these works were having on Monet's Impressionism. Japanese art accompanied Monet throughout his life as an artist. Without it he would not be the 'Monet' we know. It affected not only his style and subject matter, but also the way he saw nature and how he conceived his relationship to nature. Monet & Japan shows how Japanese prints and paintings helped to shape Monet's art during six decades, influencing not only his style and subject matter, but the very way he saw the world around him. |
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John Campbell 1855-1924Author: Janice Baker © 2003 SOLD OUT Brochure highlighting the career of John Campbell, an artist and a signwriter who was active in Western Australia c1892-1923. During this time he produced oil paintings and watercolours of Perth buildings including houses, pubs, breweries and churches as well as street scenes, railway stations, military camps and landscapes. |
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The Pre-Raphaelite Dream: Paintings and Drawings From the Tate CollectionAuthor: Robert Upstone © 2003 ISBN: 1-85437-521-0 SOLD OUT Drawn from Tate's outstanding holding, The Pre-Raphaelite Dream combines iconic paintings with less well-known works by the major artists of the movement to set the work of the Pre-Raphaelites in their aesthetic, social and historical context. |
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Mari Funaki, works 1992 - 2009Author: Robert Cook © 2009 ISBN: 978-0-9806268-0-3 Price: $5 Available from the Gallery Shop Mari Funaki is one of Australia's leading jewellers. This exhibition celebrates |
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David Walker: Anatomy of the objectAuthors: Lucy Harper and Robert Cook © 2009 ISBN: 978-0-9806268-1-0 Price: $5 Available from the Gallery Shop David Walker is one of Western Australia’s most accomplished and influential designers and crafts people. David Walker: Anatomy of the object reveals 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, is included. |
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Yirrkala artists Everywhenbark paintings from the State Art Collection Author: Chad Creighton © 2009 ISBN: 978-0-9803266-9-7 SOLD OUT Presenting selected bark paintings, produced between the late 1950s and the |
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Circle of friendsAuthors: Robert Cook and Jenepher Duncan © 2008 ISBN: 978-0-9803266-5-9 Price: $5 Available from the Gallery Shop Circle of friends presents the work of two Melbourne-based artists David Rosetzky |
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Frank Hinder: a study in dynamic symmetryAuthor: Lucy Harper © 2008 ISBN: 978-0-9803266-6-6 Price: $2 Available from the Gallery Shop The exhibition is a study of Frank Hinder's works on paper, a compelling group of the development of modern art in Australia, and here we glimpse the structures and preoccupations that fuelled his ideas throughout a long and productive artistic career. |
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Brutal, Tender, Human, AnimalRoger Ballen Photography Author: Robert Cook © 2007 ISBN: 978-0-9803266-3-5 Over almost thirty years, Roger Ballen has produced some of the most compelling unflinching confronting and always deeply moving. With its roots in the photo documentary tradition, Ballen's approach has expanded to become an unforgettable vision of the human condition. |
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Radical EleganceYohji Yamamoto Garments in Australian Collections Author: Jenepher Duncan © 2007 The first solo exhibition of women's clothing by the renowned Japanese couturier, and themes of his work over a twenty-year period. Featuring over forty garment ensembles, it draws on Australian private collections and the public collections of the National Gallery of Australia, the National Gallery of Victoria and the |
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Rodney Glick & Lynnette Voevodin 24Hr PanoramasAuthors: Gary Dufour and Robert Cook © 2006 ISBN: 0-9758098-9-X The unique approach of Rodney Glick and Lynnette Voevodin in creating their technical skill to provide a new way to see outback WA. |
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Kate Daw The Space BetweenAuthor: Jenepher Duncan © 2006 ISBN: 0-975-8098-5-7 Price: $5 Available from the Gallery Shop Kate Daw's exhibition of ceramic sculpture, typed text paintings and silkscreen prints embraces a highly personalised and feminised aesthetic. A further concern in her work is how narrative functions in contemporary art, in particular the relation of narrative to its objects through a fragmentary series of encounters. Daw places her own practice in the context of historical precedent in both fiction and art. |
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Ricky Swallow, The Past Sure Is TenseAuthor: Jenepher Duncan © 2006 ISBN: 0-975-8098-6-5 SOLD OUT Swallow grounds his work in personal memory and meticulous craftsmanship. He culture and art historical traditions. The early sculptures, mostly replicated machines from his teenage years, resonate as remnants of outdated technologies and as symbols of the passage of time. Swallow's works, however varied their content and media, revolve around the themes of evolution, mortality and the mutability of all things. |
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Brent Harris, Swamp OpAuthor: Robert Cook © 2006 ISBN: 0-975-8098-2-2 'Swamp Op' combines evenly pitched opposites. Pulling these poles into their inevitable point of death which awaits us. |
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Under God's HammerWilliam Blake versus David Shrigley Author: Robert Cook © 2006 ISBN: 0-975-8098-8-1 Price: $10 Available from the Gallery Shop This unique pairing of historical and contemporary illustrations inspired by the famously ambiguous Old testament text offers a fascinating look at the machinations of faith and the power of artistic vision in relation to the world of the early nineteenth century and our own times. The distinct styles and world views of these artists produce two remarkable takes on the significance of the Old Testament story, whose interpretation remains puzzling and manifold. |
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Wall PowerAuthor: Jenepher Duncan © 2005 ISBN: 0975809806 SOLD OUT 'Wall Power' brings together seven artists using diverse materials, techniques and processes to expand the picture plane of the wall into their structural and works, not just their display. While there is no overarching theme in this exhibition, there are certain optical, procedural and conceptual correspondences between the works, creating a dynamic dialogue around such elements as geometry, pattern, structure, colour, decoration and material. |
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Wembley Ware: Excitingly DifferentAuthors: Andrew Nicholls and Melissa Harpley © 2005 SOLD OUT
During the 1950s Australia's largest range of commercial ceramics was the wembly ware line of 'fancyware' produced in western Australia by HL Brisbane and Wunderlich Ltd. selling nationally and in New Zealand between 1946 and 1961, Wembley Ware invigorated a market dominated by plain, mercenary wartime ceramics. The ornate designs and lustrous glazes reflected the buoyancy of post-war Australian society, and resulted in some of the most unique examples of ceramic Australiana ever commercially produced. |
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Howard Taylor: Sculptures, Paintings, Drawings 1942-1984Author: Gary Dufour © 1985 ISBN: 0-7244-6900-1 SOLD OUT HOWARD TAYLOR Sculptures, Paintings, Drawings 1942-1984 traces the development of this Western Australian artist, commencing with drawings from time spent in Prisoner of War camps to the latter works. The emphasis within the exhibition has been to reveal the breadth of Howard Taylor's work in all media. This catalogue also lists of his commissioned works between 1958 and 1980. View: a copy of the exhibition catalogue See also Howard Taylor, Phenomena catalogue |
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Last reviewed 17 February 2012
