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Rooftop

AGWA Rooftop
Rooftop:
10am-5pm Daily

AGWA Rooftop is a 500-person venue offering unparalleled 360° views of the Perth CBD skyline.

Christopher Pease
Targets

This 34-metre long, five-metre tall printed metal and light-based artwork wraps around the Rooftop’s exterior walls, reflecting on place, belonging, and the centrality of the Derbarl Yerrigan (Swan River) to both.

Sculpture Walk
AGWA Rooftop hosts an open-air sculpture park featuring works from the State Art Collection, including Gerhard Marcks’ The Caller and Henry Moore’s Reclining Figure, among others.

Sculptures
S1 Barbara Hepworth
S2 Jean Arp
S3 Henry Moore
S4 Gerhard Marcks
S5 Henri Laurens
S6 Oliffe Richmond
S7 Émile Bourdelle

Level One

The West Australian Pulse 2026
Gallery 05 | Until 13 Sep

WA’s talented young artists are celebrated in this yearly showcase, gauging the pulse of young people who will influence, empower and shape the world we live in. The West Australian Pulse 2026 celebrates 34 years and features 63 works by 2025 Year 12 Visual Arts graduates from 43 schools across WA.

Tim Burns – The Kinetic Moments
COMING SOON
Gallery 05 | Opens 17 Oct

Tim Burns is one of Australia’s most inventive and provocative artists; throughout his six-decade career, he has remained committed to one thing: a refusal to be bound by the rules. Taking inspiration from his single-edition work Résumé 73-77 in the State Art Collection, Burns’s radical, lifelong interrogation into the art of the possible is unfurled, connected, and examined in this retrospective spanning 1966 to 2026.

Attachment Styles: Modes of Belonging in Modern and Contemporary Art
Gallery 06 | NOW ON

Why do we crave closeness while keeping one foot out the door? Why do we love, withdraw, cling to or sabotage our connections with others? Attachment Styles brings together works from the 19th to 21st century to explore these questions, showing how artists have long grappled with the emotional complexity of human relationships between individuals, communities and the environments they inhabit.

Chivalry is dead?
Gallery 08 | NOW ON

A display of Mediaevalism in material from The State Art Collection. In response to today’s interest in mediaeval culture, this exhibition explores mediaeval revival, courtly love and faerie tales in the art of nineteenth-century England to reveal the personal and political agendas that underlie the fantasy of ‘chivalry.’

Bruce Asbestos: Cranky Pants
Gallery 09 | NOW ON

Cranky Pants , in collaboration with UK artist Bruce Asbestos, is an interactive exhibition celebrating rebellious emotion and disobedient design. Set within a vivid pop art world of larger than life characters, families and participants of all ages are invited to design hyper-couture costumes and accessories for the catwalk.

Ground Floor

No night is long enough for us to dream twice
COMING SOON
Gallery 01 | Opens 3 Oct

This exhibition brings together contemporary photography and video by nine artists from South West Asia, North Africa and their diasporas: Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou- Rahme, Mohamad Abdouni, Hicham Benohoud, Myriam Boulos, Mohamed Bourouissa, Sabiha Çimen, Hannah Darabi and Abdulhamid Kircher.

I AM
Gallery 02 | NOW ON

Drawn from the State Art Collection, I AM celebrates the diversity of Aboriginal art and culture. The exhibition centres on personal and shared stories that elevate Aboriginal knowledge and perspectives on the world and our place in it.

Stormie Mills: All the secrets are buried between the oceans and the mountains
Gallery 03 & 04 | Until 8 Nov

A defining figure in Australian street art, Mills has spent four decades shaping the visual language of contemporary urban culture. This landmark exhibition brings together a significant body of new and recent works reflecting his global movements, personal history, and the encounters that have informed his distinctive practice since he first began painting in 1984.

Centenary Galleries

Bill’s PC presents Nihaal Faizal
Lower Centenary Galleries | NOW ON

A solo presentation of works by the Bangalore-based artist Nihaal Faizal. The exhibition is Faizal’s first institutional show in Australia and consists of three works produced between 2016 and 2021—a video, a YouTube playlist and an archive of stickers.

Baked Goods | a ceramics show
Upper Centenary Galleries | NOW ON

A display of ceramic works from the State Art Collection, raising questions about the ways we categorise objects and where use ends and art begins. The display explores the functional tradition of ‘studio pottery’ in the mid-twentieth century, which emphasised utility and beauty, alongside the more conceptual expression of ceramic makers in the later twentieth and twenty first centuries.

Kedela wer kalyakoorl ngalak Wadjak boodjak yaak.

Today and always, we stand on the traditional land of the Whadjuk Noongar people.