There is nothing like a personal interaction to spark the imagination. Whether you’re a seasoned artistic traveller or apprentice explorer, our Voluntary Gallery Guides, offer that extra insight and revealing glimpse into the artwork, the era and the artist.
There is nothing like a personal interaction to spark the imagination. Whether you’re a seasoned artistic traveller or apprentice explorer, our Voluntary Gallery Guides, offer that extra insight and revealing glimpse into the artwork, the era and the artist.
There is nothing like a personal interaction to spark the imagination. Whether you’re a seasoned artistic traveller or apprentice explorer, our Voluntary Gallery Guides, offer that extra insight and revealing glimpse into the artwork, the era and the artist.
There is nothing like a personal interaction to spark the imagination. Whether you’re a seasoned artistic traveller or apprentice explorer, our Voluntary Gallery Guides, offer that extra insight and revealing glimpse into the artwork, the era and the artist.
There is nothing like a personal interaction to spark the imagination. Whether you’re a seasoned artistic traveller or apprentice explorer, our Voluntary Gallery Guides, offer that extra insight and revealing glimpse into the artwork, the era and the artist.
There is nothing like a personal interaction to spark the imagination. Whether you’re a seasoned artistic traveller or apprentice explorer, our Voluntary Gallery Guides, offer that extra insight and revealing glimpse into the artwork, the era and the artist.
There is nothing like a personal interaction to spark the imagination. Whether you’re a seasoned artistic traveller or apprentice explorer, our Voluntary Gallery Guides, offer that extra insight and revealing glimpse into the artwork, the era and the artist.
There is nothing like a personal interaction to spark the imagination.
There is nothing like a personal interaction to spark the imagination.
There is nothing like a personal interaction to spark the imagination.
There is nothing like a personal interaction to spark the imagination.
There is nothing like a personal interaction to spark the imagination. Whether you’re a seasoned artistic traveller or apprentice explorer, our Voluntary Gallery Guides, offer that extra insight and revealing glimpse into the artwork, the era and the artist.
Politically censored by the Federal government for several years after its production, the film explores the importance of Country to Aboriginal people and investigates the well-publicised Aboriginal struggle to stop mining at Noonkanbah Station, an Aboriginal owned cattle station in the Kimberley, during the late 1970s.
Glass is one of the most exciting and dynamic art forms in this country. It is a uniquely captivating medium, capable of almost endless transformation. Glass provides a perfect vehicle for the exploration of a range of themes, from the personal to the observational, and Australian makers are some of the world leaders in the medium.
Enjoy a glass of Juniper Estate wine and hear from co-curators Carly Lane and Emilia Galatis. Tour the exhibition at your own pace thereafter.
There is nothing like a personal interaction to spark the imagination. Whether you’re a seasoned artistic traveller or apprentice explorer, our Voluntary Gallery Guides, offer that extra insight and revealing glimpse into the artwork, the era and the artist.
There is nothing like a personal interaction to spark the imagination. Whether you’re a seasoned artistic traveller or apprentice explorer, our Voluntary Gallery Guides, offer that extra insight and revealing glimpse into the artwork, the era and the artist.
There is nothing like a personal interaction to spark the imagination. Whether you’re a seasoned artistic traveller or apprentice explorer, our Voluntary Gallery Guides, offer that extra insight and revealing glimpse into the artwork, the era and the artist.
There is nothing like a personal interaction to spark the imagination. Whether you’re a seasoned artistic traveller or apprentice explorer, our Voluntary Gallery Guides, offer that extra insight and revealing glimpse into the artwork, the era and the artist.
There is nothing like a personal interaction to spark the imagination. Whether you’re a seasoned artistic traveller or apprentice explorer, our Voluntary Gallery Guides, offer that extra insight and revealing glimpse into the artwork, the era and the artist.
There is nothing like a personal interaction to spark the imagination. Whether you’re a seasoned artistic traveller or apprentice explorer, our Voluntary Gallery Guides, offer that extra insight and revealing glimpse into the artwork, the era and the artist.
There is nothing like a personal interaction to spark the imagination. Whether you’re a seasoned artistic traveller or apprentice explorer, our Voluntary Gallery Guides, offer that extra insight and revealing glimpse into the artwork, the era and the artist.
Join our Gallery Guide and other parents for a tour of the Desert River Sea: Portraits of the Kimberley exhibition, followed by coffee, cake, and lively conversation in the Imagination Room.
Shearing the rams hangs alongside AGWA’s own Down on his luck by Frederick McCubbin, and gives you a rare opportunity to see these two great nationalistic narrative paintings side-by-side.
Centred around the State Art Collection, AGWA's iconic building will be transformed into an immersive world of wonder and discovery for the fourth annual ART BALL.
Join the ART BALL faithful and ignite your passion for the weird and the wonderful as the worlds of art, fashion, music and performance collide to present an event like no other.
A striking new work from renowned artist Daniel Walbidi has been revealed as the first of eight commissions created as part of the Art Gallery of WA's expansive Aboriginal art exhibition Desert River Sea: Portraits of the Kimberley. Walbidi’s work will form part of this significant and wide-ranging exposition of Kimberley art, presented as part of the Perth Festival from 9 February 2019.
Following AGWA's recent announcement of Daniel Walbidi's striking new commission Wirnpa (2016-2019), the Gallery revealed a collection of works by Mangkaja Arts artists as the second of eight commissions to feature in the exhibition Desert River Sea: Portraits of the Kimberley. The works from Mangkaja Arts focus on station stories from artists' personal and collective memories. Diverse in medium, the collection features painted animal hides, bush-dyed textiles and repurposed ready-made objects.
Andrew Nicholls’ WA Now solo exhibition will showcase 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.
Desert River Sea: Portraits of the Kimberley opens as part of the Perth Festival on Saturday 9 February with a day of talks and events celebrating the exhibition.
Desert River Sea: Portraits of the Kimberley is an exciting, experimental, and current look at Aboriginal art from the Kimberley, Western Australia. The show brings together over 150 new and old works that reveal the many faces and features of contemporary Aboriginal art from the region.
Tom Malone Prize 2019 opens at AGWA Saturday 9 March | FREE
The Art Gallery of WA is pleased to announce the twelve shortlisted artists for the 2019 Tom Malone Prize for Australian glass artists.
Year 12 Perspectives showcases work by some of the best, brightest and most talented graduating high school artists in WA, and is a barometer of what our youth are thinking and feeling. In 2017, the Year 12 Perspectives exhibition will celebrate its 25th year and the show will also highlight alumni who have become professional practitioners in the visual arts, including video interviews with previous finalists across the years.
Centenary celebration of remarkable textile designer. Helen Grey-Smith enjoyed a long career in Western Australia as a textile designer, painter and maker of collages. The next WA Focus exhibition, celebrates her mid-century textile work – 100 years on from the birth of this remarkable WA artist. On display are textiles including full-length curtains, Grey-Smith's design for a Perth scarf detailing iconic landmarks, and fabric samples – as well as later works.
• New Permanent Indigenous Gallery: Six Seasons signals major Indigenous commitment
• New contemporary strand Culture Juice launches with The Rise of Sneaker Culture and Heath Ledger: A Life In Pictures
• Major new acquisitions of entrance sculptures by Sir Antony Gormley
• PIAF collaboration: Everyone has a history exhibition
• Return of the Black Swan Prize for Portraiture
• RENEW of WA State Art Collection Galleries
The Western Australian Museum and the Art Gallery of Western Australia, in conjunction with Heath Ledger's family, will present an exceptional exhibition celebrating the life and work of the Perth-born actor, to open in 2017. Announcing the much-anticipated exhibition today, Culture and the Arts Minister John Day said it would showcase the extraordinary talent of Ledger as an actor, his aspirations as a director and provide a window into his early life growing up in Perth.
Plain Speak launches a new annual series at AGWA, Everyone has a history, presenting compelling personal stories told through art. Exclusive to PIAF, the inaugural show puts Indigenous artists in the spotlight. Featuring 50 powerfully personal works, presented through a range of media; including video work, paintings, photography, sculpture and textiles.
Fremantle artist Rachel Coad has won the prestigious $50,000 Lester Group Prize for her portrait of artist Waldemar Kolbusz, titled Indian Summer, in the 2016 Black Swan Prize for Portraiture. The inaugural $10,000 Tony Fini Foundation Artist Prize was awarded to Mark Tweedie, after the 40 finalists voted for their favourite portrait.
Stefano Carboni wins excellence award. The Art Gallery of WA is proud to announce that its Director, Stefano Carboni, has been awarded the Seventeenth Edition of Italy in the World Award (Premio Italia Nel Mondo) for 2016. Established in 1994 in New York, the Italy in the World Award seeks to recognise the excellent work of distinguished people of Italian origin who are active in the areas of culture, science, film, art, sports, entrepreneurship and social issues around the world.
AGWA’s major new sculptural installation by US artist Julianne Swartz. Bathed in sunshine for an average of nine hours a day, Perth is the sunniest capital city in Australia. Harvesting this plentiful sunlight is AGWA’s major new sculptural installation, Blue Sky with Rainbow by US artist Julianne Swartz. Julianne Swartz is an American artist who uses installation, sound art and sculpture to explore the interface between private and public, inside and outside, individuals and surroundings.
It's time to face up to portraits. Portraits commemorate, transform, reflect, and sometimes distort their subject in endlessly fascinating variety. From the Black Swan Prize for Portraiture to robot tours and new trails, AGWA says this October, it’s time to face up to portraits. October is Portrait Month at AGWA as the Gallery celebrates the portrait in all its forms, drawing 40 key works from the State Art Collection, with a special focus on the Black Swan Prize for Portraiture.
Hannah Gadsby & Husky see out the 2016 season. ARTBAR returns to the Gallery this October and November with two live acts from Australian performers who have garnered both national and international attention. Comedian Hannah Gadsby, along with Melbourne-based folk group Husky, will be gracing the ARTBAR stage later this year with their respective comic wit and captivating vocals.
The first European explorers and settlers viewed Western Australia and its spectacular coast as an “unknown land”. Of course, it was no such thing – Aboriginal people had owned the land for thousands of years and were quickly in conflict with the imperialists. Whatever their motives – colonist, invader, explorer, settler, adventurer – the Europeans were awestruck by the land we now call Western Australia – and the opportunities it presented.
ArtDine merges two greats: the Art Gallery of WA and its rebooted dining destination Arthouse.
ArtDine “Unknown Land” – 6:30pm, Saturday 17 Sep & 1 Oct
ArtDine Dissenting Voices – 6:30pm, Saturday 24 Sep & 8 Oct
COST: $69+bf
This new dining experience offers visitors the chance to enjoy an after-hours viewing of one of the Gallery’s latest exhibitions followed by a three-course meal at Arthouse.
Aggie, AGWA's engagement robot will be extending her popular role as a tour guide for families by welcoming families of ROBOTS to the Gallery as an exciting part of National Science Week in the Perth Cultural Centre.
Finlandisation brings together Juha Tolonen's landscape work from the past four years in Australia and Finland. Focusing on both his adoptive and ancestral homes, the new series unites the seemingly disparate landscapes of the Swan River hinterland and Lapland. While contrasts exist, Tolonen's new work also displays a surprising continuity.
Dissenting Voices is an exhibition concerned with how artists respond to political events and social issues and how they challenge cultural values. Selected from historical, Indigenous and contemporary artworks in the State Art Collection, the works in the show explore themes of socio-political engagement, personal and national identity politics and resistance to acts of authoritarian control and aggression.
40 finalists have been chosen from the record number of 484 artists who entered the 2016 Black Swan Prize for Portraiture. Amongst this year's finalists were 13 Western Australian artists. There were 8 finalists from NSW, 5 from SA, 10 from VIC, 2 from QLD & 2 from TAS. The finalists’ works will be on display at AGWA s part of Portraiture Month.
Continental Shift is the new historical exhibition opening at the Art Gallery of Western Australia on Saturday 30 July. The exhibition is the result of a partnership between the Art Gallery of WA, the Chicago-based Terra Foundation for American Art, and the University of Western Australia. Fifteen American nineteenth-century landscape paintings are on show alongside Australian works of the same period from the WA State Art Collection.
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.
AGWA's Desert River Sea: Kimberley Art Then & Now received a 2016 Museums and Galleries National Awards (MAGNA) in the Indigenous Project or Keeping Place category at last night's Awards. Desert River Sea: Kimberley Art Then and Now is a ground-breaking six year visual arts initiative developed by the Art Gallery of Western Australia with the support of Rio Tinto.
AGWA unveils new engagement strategy - Guru Robot integral to new Imagination Program. At an exclusive evening "Winter Reveal" event on May 18, AGWA Director Stefano Carboni revealed the next phase of the Art Gallery of WA's evolution which sees the opening of five new spaces – the Wesfarmers Micro Galleries, Nano Galleries and Rise Sound Gallery, along with two new public areas – the Imagination Room and the Stratosphere.
N
GALLERY OPEN
Wed to Mon 10am-5pm
Closed Tuesdays, Good Friday and Christmas Day
Entry is free, donations welcomed. Special exhibitions may incur a ticket fee.