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Rodgers Gormley Gallery

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AGWA’s acquisitions Big Pluck 2 2016, and Big Yield 2015, are outstanding examples of Gormley’s recent practice.

Composed from scans of his body scaled up one-and-a-half times, the works are part of his wider Big Beamers series.

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Shadow Quartet

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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

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Screen Space – Megan Cope

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The Blaktism 2014 is the first standalone video work by artist Megan Cope. It is highly theatrical in its examination of Aboriginal identity and issues of authenticity that are faced by fair-skinned Aboriginal people.

It does this by looking at Australian society’s intensive focus on skin colour as a way of deciding who is and isn’t a “real” Aboriginal person in urban areas.

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New Chair for AGWA Foundation

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AGWA Board Chair, Sam Walsh AO and AGWA Director, Dr Stefano Carboni are delighted to announce Mr Warwick Hemsley as the new Chair of the AGWA Foundation. 

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AGWA says addio to the popular Corsini Collection

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A Window on Italy – The Corsini Collection: Masterpieces from Florence, closes this Monday 18 June. Drawn from the private art collection of the eminent Corsini family, the exhibition featuring paintings from Italian artists such as Botticelli, Pontormo, Tintoretto and Caravaggio has inspired tens of thousands of Western Australians, exceeding the exhibition's visitation target.

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Rebels, Radicals and Pathfinders make their way to AGWA

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AGWA celebrates free-thinkers, boundary-pushers and ground-breakers in the second half of 2018 through three contrasting exhibitions. First up, is Sidney Nolan's rebel masterpiece series Ned Kelly. Themes of identity, individuality, and a strong sense of place, have cemented this series within the Australian national psyche.

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Act Belong Commit People's Choice Winner

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Cultural similarities cross oceans in this year's Perspectives public favourite . Michaela Savage has been awarded the 2017 Year 12 Perspectives Act-Belong-Commit People’s Choice Award for her work Inheritance 2017.

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SymbioticA artists explore the intersections of science and art in Biomess

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Ground-breaking science or art? Including strange, bewildering, rarely seen and just maybe new organisms, this exhibition defies categorisation. Opening at AGWA on Saturday 8 September, WA Now – Biomess – The Tissue Culture & Art Project (Oron Catts / Ionat Zurr) is a radical experiment in live culture. Presented by The Tissue Culture & Art Project of SymbioticA.

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Beyond Bling! AGWA celebrates adornment with provocative new jewellery show

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New AGWA Culture Juice exhibit spotlights body art. Centred on 300 varied pieces from the WA State Art Collection, from the 1800s to today, Beyond Bling! unlocks the AGWA vaults to showcase the best, the bizarre and the most sophisticated jewels in its historical and contemporary collections. 

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ArtBubs | Black Swan Prize for Portraiture

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More than just a physical likeness, a portrait can give us an insight into the artist’s world and the people within it. View a selection of works from the Black Swan Prize for Portraiture exhibition and see how artists employ a range of techniques and styles to evoke particular moods or emotions within viewers and to communicate insights into the character of the sitter.

Tour the exhibition with a Voluntary Gallery Guide, followed by coffee, cake and conversation in the Imagination Room. Prams/baby carriers and babies up to one-year-old welcome! Baby change facilities available.

More than just a physical likeness, a portrait can give us an insight into the artist’s world and the people within it.

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Black Swan Prize for Portraiture Awards Night

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Join us and some of Australia's finest portrait artists at the exclusive Black Swan Prize for Portraiturecelebrations. Enjoy a night of fine wine, canapes, and the announcement of the major prize winners.

Enjoy a night of fine wine, canapes, and the announcement of the major prize winners.

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Paradigm

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Jewels will flash at this highly anticipated fashion show. Curtin University's School of Design and the Built Environment fashion students are this year presenting their graduate showcase, Paradigm at AGWA. 

This thrilling event will explore and challenge conventional fashion paradigms through the presentation of a unique range of capsule collections that will be featured through an innovative runway experience. The event will showcase innovative design, explore the many facets of beauty, disrupt common held beliefs and investigate narratives expressed through the art of fashion.

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Bling Day

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It all begins on Bling Day, with a jewel box of music, talks, guided tours, workshops, a jewellery history clinic, dance and much more. 

It all begins on Bling Day, with a jewel box of music, talks, guided tours, workshops, a jewellery history clinic, dance and much more.

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100 Keyboards – Lead Artist Asuna

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Created by pioneering Japanese sound artist Asuna, 100 Keyboards is a captivating site-specific listening experience, a strange but beautiful accompaniment to the Beyond Bling! exhibition. For a truly one-of-a-kind performance and site-specific listening experience in the AGWA concourse.

Created by pioneering Japanese sound artist Asuna, 100 Keyboards is a captivating site-specific listening experience, a strange but beautiful accompaniment to the Beyond Bling! exhibition. For a truly one-of-a-kind performance and site-specific listening experience in the AGWA concourse.

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Curator Tour: Beyond Bling

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Join AGWA Curator of Contemporary Design and International Art Robert Cook on an exclusive after-hours tour of the next exhibition in the Culture Juice program: Beyond Bling!

 

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Plastic Fantastic Body Bling

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In celebration of the Beyond Bling! exhibition come and create a dazzling adornment made from upcycled plastic materials with artist Paula Hart.

Bring your own coloured plastic lids, plastic bottles and old colourful trinkets, or use the recycled treasures we have collected for you.

Join us in the Imagination Room at AGWA for a creative morning or crafternoon during the September school holidays.

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WA Now – Gregory Pryor: Looking Glass

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WA artist Gregory Pryor has created an immersive new work Looking Glass which draws upon his investigations into isolated landscapes of Western Australia.

For his WA Now project, Gregory Pryor undertook a field trip to the region of the tragic Esperance bush fires of 2015. By setting himself in amongst the charcoal remains of the devastated terrain and taking a series of 360-degree photographic notations, Pryor formulated the idea for his panoramic work and its overwhelming immersive quality.

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In conversation with Julianne Swartz

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AGWA’s new major sculptural installation, Blue Sky with Rainbow harvests plentiful Western Australian sunlight to beckon visitors into the galleries. Join US artist, Julianne Swartz with AGWA Curator, Jenepher Duncan for a discussion about how this project came about. 

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WA Now – Andrew Nicholls Hyperkulturemia

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Andrew Nicholls’ WA Now solo exhibition showcases his recent Hyperkulturemia series. The major focus of his practice for over the past five years, Hyperkulturemia is the outcome of a series of residencies in Italy between 2014-2017.

The major focus of his practice for over the past five years, Hyperkulturemia is the outcome of a series of residencies in Italy between 2014-2017.

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Artist Talk with Andrew Nicholls

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Hear from artist Andrew Nicholls for an insight into his artistic practice and his WA Now Hyperkulturemia exhibition.

Andrew Nicholls is an Australian/British artist, writer, and curator whose practice explores how power has been expressed through aesthetics, historically.

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Open Day | spaced 3

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Join us for the opening of the spaced 3: north by southeast exhibition where we celebrate explorers of a different kind. 

In conversation with spaced 3 – Panel Discussion
11am, Saturday 18 August 
Hear from some of the key people involved in this innovative project that brings together works developed by artists from Nordic countries and Australia during their ventures into new landscapes and unfamiliar terrain.

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Bling Chandelier Workshops

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Using recycled plastics the artists challenge the ways we overlook the potential of discarded objects and bring new life to materials that our society often views as junk. Contribute to the dazzling Plastic Fantastic Bling Chandelier to hang in the Imagination Room at AGWA as part of Beyond Bling! until 14 January.

Using recycled plastics the artists challenge the ways we overlook the potential of discarded objects and bring new life to materials that our society often views as junk.

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ArtBubs | Beyond Bling!

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Parents with bubs get together for a mid-week art outing with morning tea. Prams/baby carriers and babies up to one-year-old welcome!

Join an AGWA Guru Guide and other parents for a tour of the Beyond Bling! exhibition, followed by coffee, cake, and lively conversation in the Imagination Room.

Prams/baby carriers and babies up to one year old welcome! Baby change facilities available.

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Radicals Lecture | Biomess

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Delve into Australia’s long love of the anti-authoritarian, explorer psyche with the Rebels, Radicals & Pathfinders 3-part lecture series.

SymbioticA artist/researchers Ionat Zurr & Oron Catts in conversation with AGWA Curator of Contemporary Design and International Art Robert Cook. 

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ArtBubs | Rebels, Radicals and Pathfinders

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Parents with bubs get together for a mid-week art outing with morning tea. Prams/baby carriers and babies up to one-year-old welcome!

For many artists, the purpose of their art is not to represent reality but to make us look at and think about the world we live in differently.

This tour will help you to look closely at the work of artists who have intentionally pushed the accepted boundaries of art.

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Family Workshop | Djurandi Dreaming

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Learn about local Aboriginal knowledge, stories, seasons and techniques for painting on canvas in acrylic these Western Australian School Holidays. 

Learn about local Aboriginal knowledge, stories, seasons and techniques for painting on canvas in acrylic. 

Find out about the artist’s country, journey and inspiration for painting and create your own canvas using brushes and natural materials like sticks, tree nuts and leaves to take home.

PLEASE NOTE ALL SESSIONS ARE FULLY BOOKED. 
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Beyond Bling! Guided Tours

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Join a Voluntary Gallery Guide for an insight into some of the contemporary and historical jewellery in your state art collection. 

Centred on 300 varied pieces from the State Art Collection from the 1800s to today, Beyond Bling! unlocks the vaults to showcase the best, the bizarre and the most sophisticated jewels in its historical and contemporary collections.

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Desert River Sea Opening Celebration

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Desert River Sea: Portraits of the Kimberley exhibition opens with an unmissable free celebration of Kimberley culture on Saturday 9 February 2019. Join us for artist talks and art demonstrations, cultural performances, and family activities at the Art Gallery of WA.
 

Learn about the art of pearl shell carving with artist Garry Sibosado, and bush-dying with natural materials with artists from Mangkaja Arts.

Hear from Mowanjum Arts on ochre crushing and Wandjina rock art education, or watch Mervyn Street of Mangkaja Arts carve and shave a cow hide. Waringarri Aboriginal Arts will demonstrate boab nut carving.

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Artist Studio Visit | Tom Malone Prize

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A behind-the-scenes look at the workshop of Perth-based glass artist and winner of the Tom Malone Prize 2017, Marc Leib.

Marc Leib, the winner of the prestigious Tom Malone Prize in 2017 for his work Inner core, is the owner of a long established, highly successful glass studio in South Africa, and now operates from his workshop in Morley since moving to Perth in 2002.

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Artist Activation Public Workshop | Esther McDowell/Yabini Kickett

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In late January, join Bibbulmun Esther McDowell/ Yabini Kickett in creating a collaborative multi-media artwork that explores the flora of Perth and the connection to Country as part of the upcoming Desert River Sea: Portraits of the Kimberley exhibition. 

Come and learn dry brush techniques, paint tree silhouettes and learn about their cultural uses as well as ecological functions.

Throughout late Jan-May, drop by the Imagination Room to see the piece and create your own response to it.

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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