Tickets are now on sale for the Art Gallery of WA’s summer exhibition Treasure Ships: Art in the Age of Spices which opens at AGWA on 10 October. This exhibition, the result of a collaboration between the Art Gallery of South Australia (AGSA) and AGWA, features the spectacular and exotic art produced for global markets from the 1500s to early 1800s.
Demand for spices spurred on the great voyages of exploration and the establishment of vast empires across Asia. Treasure Ships presents the stories of the spice markets, slave trade and shipwrecks, as well as illustrating the astonishing beauty of Chinese porcelain, known as ‘white gold’ and celebrating vibrant Indian textiles created for export around the world.
