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Rooftop
Zheng Bo: 舞草舞木 / Dance Grass Dance Tree
Gallery 10 | Opens 9 Nov
AGWA commissioned Zheng Bo to make a dance that cultivates intimate human-plant relations and kinship. The dance is performed by two local dancers and six Western Australian native plants. Through the human-plant expressions of intimacy composed in the dance, Zheng proposes a reconfiguration of how we might perceive and communicate with all of the Earth’s life forms.
Please note, the performance contains nudity.
AGWA Rooftop
Rooftop:
10am-5pm daily except Tue
AGWA Rooftop is a 500-person venue offering unparalleled 360° views of the Perth CBD skyline.
Rooftop Bar:
Reopening Oct
4pm till late Fri & Sat
Featuring food and beverages with a distinct WA flavour, enjoy a sunset drink taking in the 360° city views and sculpture park with laid-back beats.
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
Form and feeling: artists’ studies of the twentieth century
COMING SOON
Gallery 06 | Opens 21 Dec
Form and feeling: artists’ studies of the twentieth century explores the manifold ways British and Australian artists approached oil painting and drawing. Bringing together significant paintings from the State Art Collection and their preparatory drawings – some of which have never been shown before – the exhibition is focused upon technique and process, exploring the transition from preliminary sketches to finished oil painting, and features such artists as Stanley Spencer, William Dobell, Russell Drysdale and Frank Auerbach.
Henry Roy – Invisible Island
Gallery 07 | Opens 30 Nov
The first survey of the Haitian-born French photographer’s practice from 1983-2023. Prominent through his involvement with Purple and Hobo magazines in the 1990s, he is acclaimed for his sumptuously enigmatic images that reframe the beauty and possibility of the world.
Material Practice: Howard Taylor’s Journal
Gallery 08 | Until 2 Feb
Material Practice: Howard Taylor’s Journal invites you to witness firsthand the evolution of one of Western Australia’s most significant artists, seen through artworks in the Collection along with pages from his Journal.
From his early experimentation with tempera and form to his later innovations in manipulating light and space, each artwork reveals the development of Taylor's creative process, enriched by the insight gleaned from his Journal.
Forecast
Gallery 09 | Now Showing
Forecast is an interactive exhibition for audiences of all ages and abilities developed in collaboration with Dianne Jones, Eva Fernandez and Dr Jo Pollitt.
Equal part exhibition, artist studio, retreat, and creative weather station, Forecast is a place for feeling, featuring interconnected generations of families and forests; daily disappearing treescapes painted with water; felt river stones for resting; and an invitation to move and be moved.
Ground Floor
Me, Also Me
Gallery 01 | Until 5 Jan
Drawn from AGWA’s Collection, including two new videos by Ayoung Kim and Daisuke Kosugi alongside Brett Whiteley’s The American Dream, this exhibition considers how artists employ tropes of mirroring, repetition, anecdotes and alter egos to map the contours of uncannily labile selves.
Balancing Act
Gallery 02 | Ongoing
Our story is not one story, but many stories to share. Balancing Act invites you to be surprised, delighted and challenged by the stories told through the eyes of First Nations artists and their works of art in this State Art Collection showcase.
Sandra Black: Holding light
Gallery 03 | Until 16 Feb
The first comprehensive survey of works by internationally acclaimed Western Australian ceramicist Sandra Black.
Spanning over 50 years of practice, the exhibition surveys important touchpoints in Black’s career from 1972 through to her current practice.
Julia Gutman, Life in the third person
Gallery 04 | Until 16 Feb
AGWA has commissioned a major new work by young Sydney-based artist, Julia Gutman, who won 2023’s prestigious Archibald Prize.
It’s Gutman's largest and most intricate work to date, one that employs textiles in way that is both sculpturally expansive and intimately ‘drawn’.
TIME • RONE
Centenary Galleries
Now Showing | Ticketed
Step into a moment suspended in time and get lost in an immersive art experience like no other.
Following a sell-out season in Melbourne, TIME • RONE is now showing in AGWA’s Centenary Galleries, featuring expanded staging and a new room, exclusive to Perth.
