JOIN AGWA CURATORS AND ARTISTS FOR AN EXCHANGE ABOUT ART IN THE 70S IN PERTH AND HOW THE COLLECTION AT AGWA REFLECTS THE SCENE AT THE TIME.
AGWA 40 – Celebrating the Art Gallery of WA’s 1979 Brutalist building anniversary.
Full of surprises and rarely seen works, That Seventies Feeling…the Late Modern examines a transformative decade for for WA, the Gallery and the world at large. Culturally, it was the decade of punk, glam rock, disco, Star Wars, Vietnam, the beginning and end of the Whitlam Government, and when Perth started to pump culturally – marked by the opening of the ‘new’ building in 1979.
