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Rooftop
Zheng Bo: 舞草舞木 / Dance Grass Dance Tree
Gallery 10 | Until 16 Mar
A performance by Zheng Bo that cultivates intimate humanplant relationships and kinship. Commissioned by AGWA as part of the Simon Lee Foundation Institute of Contemporary Asian Art, this performance is choreographed by Zheng and Tyrone Earl Lraé Robinson who collaborated with two dancers and five Western Australian plants.
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
Gallery 06 | Until 4 May
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 | Until 18 May
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 30 Mar
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 | Until 16 Mar
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
Art of Peace: Art After War
Gallery 01 | Until 29 Jun
This exhibition explores how visual artists address the trauma of war and life after conflict. The international artists include Rwandan artists, Teta Chel, Innocent Nkurunziza, Cedric Mizero; Timor-Leste: Bernardino Soares, Inu Bere, Maria Madeira; and from Bosnia and Herzegovina: Mladen Miljanović, Aida Šehović, Adela Jušić.
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 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’.
Taring Padi
Foyer Mural | Until 15 Jun
Indonesian art workers collective Taring Padi collaborated with artists Sharyn Egan (Noongar), Yabini Kickett (Ballardong, Whadjuk), Ilona McGuire (Whadjuk, Ballardong, Yuat, Kungarakan) and Tyrown Waigana (Wardandi Noongar, Ait Koedhal) to create a newly commissioned work that vividly expresses the power of solidarity, education, cultural traditions and collective action to heal and resist systemic injustices across Indonesia and Western Australia.
