Celebrating Impact

Designed through collaborative processes, AGWA’s participatory art experiences spark joy, support meaningful engagement in arts learning, and foster creativity, agency and emotional growth. Our 2025 Annual Appeal donors helped ensure that AGWA can expand and share these creative learning and access programs with children and young people everywhere.

To help support WA’s arts and culture recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic’s drastic economic impact, the AGWA Foundation funded a sector-leading stimulus package for Western Australian artists, worth $1.5 million.

The AGWA Foundation’s TomorrowFund is significantly enriching the Gallery’s holdings of contemporary art by quality, breadth, and number, and in turn, enriching the experiences of Western Australians and visitors to the state by providing outstanding works of art by the country’s and world’s finest contemporary artists.

Our 2024 Appeal celebrated a rising star of contemporary art, Anna Park, and her first solo exhibition in Australia. With the support of our generous appeal donors, AGWA successfully brought Park’s captivating work Finders Keepers into the State Art Collection.

Funds raised in 2023 to support the important process of digitising AGWA’s Collection will mean that the entire State Art Collection will soon be available for access online. This ensures that Australians in regional and remote areas, students, families, researchers, and visitors around the world have the opportunity to discover, experience and enjoy art.

This year, our focus was on historical and modern works and continuing to build on the representation of women artists within our holdings of work from these periods. The Gallery successfully acquired the work The charming ladies by Helen Maudsley. 

The AGWA Foundation 2021 Annual Appeal raised funds to support our landmark program Creative Encounters: Arts and Dementia at AGWA. This Gallery based program, developed in collaboration with dementia support services, will bring people living with dementia and their carers to the fore, and highlight the important role of the arts for wellbeing.

An extension of the AGWA Foundation Stimulus Package, the Emerging Artist Acquisition Appeal enabled AGWA supporters to play a role in contributing to the careers of emerging artists not yet represented in the AGWA Collection.

Postmodern Minang/Wardandi/Bibbulmun artist artist Christopher Pease appropriates early colonial images to reframe colonial history and race relations in startling ways. His acclaimed Minang Boodjar series subverts the well-known 1834 colour print Panoramic View of King George’s Sound, Part of the Colony of Swan River, from drawings by Lieutenant Robert Dale.