Fritz Kos Art Gallery of Western Australia 1979 (detail). State Library of Western Australia. Sourced from the collections of the State Library of Western Australia and reproduced with the permission of the Library Board of Western Australia. (224274PD).
AGWA, the Perth Cultural Centre and Brutalist Architecture in Australia.
A symposium celebrating the 40th anniversary of the AGWA building and Perth’s early role in the architectural style in Australia. Includes a guided tour of the iconic Brutalist Curtin University campus.
Opened on 2 October 1979 by then Premier Charles Court, the new Art Gallery of WA building was a dramatic example of late Brutalist architecture designed by Polish born Charles Sierakowski. Perth Brutal: Dreaming in Concrete opens out the many layers of the history of the building’s development featuring images of the building in construction and its early days, along with ephemera such as building models, plans, diagrams and drawings, and early promotional brochures about the structure and its place in the Cultural Centre.
Speakers
Merindah Bairnsfather-Scott, GIS Analyst, Winyama
Patrick Ford, Senior Architecture Officer, Office of the Government Architect, Perth
Dr Robert Cook, AGWA Curator of 20th Century Arts
Dunja Rmandić, AGWA Associate Curator of 21st Century Arts
Melissa Harpley, AGWA Curator of 19th Century Arts | Manager of Collections
Winthrop Professor Simon Anderson, The University of Western Australia
Dr Annette Condello, Director of Graduate Research at the School of Design and the Built Environment, Curtin University
Andrew Murray, PhD Candidate, School of Design, University of Melbourne
Bookings essential
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GALLERY OPEN
Wed to Mon 10am-5pm
Closed Tuesdays, Good Friday and Christmas Day
Entry is free, donations welcomed. Special exhibitions may incur a ticket fee.