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Visual Arts Update
EXHIBITIONS.   WORKSHOPS.   INDIGENOUS.   PHOTOGRAPHY.   GALLERIES.   ARTIST STUDIOS.
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HIGHLIGHTS: Launch of Art Upmarket / POTober 2018: ceramic art workshops / New exhibitions at PICA, Linton & Kay Galleries and Gallows Gallery / 2 New Perth Galleries
Now - Oct 7, PICA. Amalia Pica investigates how we communicate beyond the barriers of language including research with apes raised in human households using Sign Language. The work that lends its title to the exhibition, Please Open Hurry is a reference to the Chimpanzee Washoe, who used this simple sentence structure to request to go outside her enclosure.
Now - Oct 7, PICA. Lebanese born and Australian based Sabsabi's work with photography, painting and textiles is heavily informed by Sufi spirituality, his own experience of moving between communities and geopolitical factors. His latest work, A self-portrait, comprise 114 individual pieces, each consisting of seven different layers, signifying the seven different segments of the ‘Nafs’ (Arabic, Persian and Urdu for ‘the self’).
Talks & Workshops
POTober 2018
Sep 28 - 30, North Metro TAFE
Book your place at POTober 2018, a 3-day smorgasbord of ceramic art workshops. Organised by Ceramic Arts WA, this is your chance to learn from the best Australian Ceramicists with workshops and demonstrations from Kasirajan Subbaiah (visiting from India), Stuart McKay and Nanna Bayer amongst many others. Watch them work, ask questions and learn about their art practice. Beginners welcome, workshops cater to all levels.
Join senior WA artists Holly Story and Kati Thamo for a relaxed tour of Running Deep, the exhibition which looks at their art practices through the lens of their friendship and creative engagement with WA’s South Coast. The tour will be followed by a question and answer session, facilitated by Curator André Lipscombe. The exhibition continues until Sep 8.
Yao Jui-Chung is a researcher, lecturer, curator and artist based in Taipei. During his residency in Studio Zero at PICA, Yao is exploring Perth’s metropolitan landscape, undertaking site-specific research and meeting with local collaborators. Join this free illustrated lecture with Yao Jui-Chung following by a visit to Studio Zero view what he has created during his residency.
Not to be Missed
Art Upmarket
Saturday Aug 25, UWA’s Winthrop Hall
Fill your home with local art at this exciting new event! From 10am – 3pm the market will showcase a curated selection of more than 45 of Perth’s most talented artists, connecting them with art enthusiasts. Entry is free and visual art for sale includes sculpture, watercolour, acrylics, resin art, woodwork, photography and more. 
Now – Aug 26, Fridays Studio. With it’s official opening tonight, the new series from Australia’s leading Pop Artist Johnny Romeo is a colourful homage to the essence of rock’n’roll. Brought to Perth by Linton & Kay, ROCK IS DEAD is a darkly humorous slice of potent Kitsch Pop that explores shifting musical tides, reflecting a world where the danger and fury of rock’n’roll is dying but refuses to fade away.
Aug 10 - 26, Gallows Gallery. In his 14th solo exhibition, David Spencer Spencer has collaborated with glass artist Margaret Heenan, with the duo combining their artistic energies for a dynamic marriage of mediums. Heenan’s kiln-formed glass sculptures create a unique synergy with Spencer’s colour-saturated paintings. The new paintings are bound to excite as Spencer explores new compositions, reflections and natural forms.
Now - Aug 25, Whitespace Gallery. For the grand opening of this new Fremantle studio, Whitespace Gallery, some of the countries best artists from around the country were invited to show and collaborate with Whitespace Gallery and the results will all be on show! Featured artists include Kyle Hughes-Odgers, Pippa McManus, Daek William, Anthony Lister and Jodee Knowles.
Now – Aug 25, Cool Change Contemporary. A new artist-run-initiative in the Perth CBD, Cool Change Contemporary is a multi-gallery venue located within the historic Bon Marché Arcade building on Barrack Street. The first round of exhibitions feature solo shows by 3 exciting Australian artists: I'mprint by Eric C, Keeping Busy by Paul Sutherland and The Gift by Oliver Hull and a residency by Laura Edmunds (UK).
Now - Sep 8. Fremantle Arts Centre. This exhibition reassembles the original paintings from around Australia to restage Bush Women, 25 years after the paintings by Paji Honeychild Yankkarr, Daisy Andrews, Queenie McKenzie, Tjapartji Kanytjuri Bates, Tjingapa Davies and Pantjiti Mary McLean were first shown. Living in diverse remote communities in WA the artists painted their culture and the narratives of their lives with authority and vigour, in strikingly individual styles. 
Now - Aug 30, Linton and Kay Subiaco. Andy Quilty explores ideals of home viewed through the high-density housing estates of the artist’s locale, Baldivis - the fastest growing suburb in WA. Taking the form of large-scale abstracts on panel and scratchy graphite landscapes on paper, this new body of work identifies and re-contextualises markers in the suburban environs to interrogate the promises of a low-income paradise.
Now – Aug 25, Holmes a Court Gallery @ No 10
3 solo photography exhibitions from Perth Centre for Photography. Kate Breckon explores landscape and a sense of place; emerging artist Lyle Branson looks at the native bush left in the urban areas around Perth and Daniel Gevaux aims to produce work that will act as historical documents.
Now - Dec 8, Venue: Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery 
As the last generation of cattlemen recall distant memories of dusty stockyards, saddle sheds, wet seasons, and those who passed before them, this exhibition explores the lives of those living and working on the remote cattle station of Gibb River in the East Kimberley region through the photographic image. 
Also on Display
Gallery Central
NOW - AUG 18
John Curtin Gallery
NOW - SEP 2
Greendale Centre
AUG 10 - 19
Linton & Kay Mandoon Estate
NOW - AUG 31
Mundaring Arts Centre
NOW - SEP 16
ArtCollective WA
AUG 11 - SEP 8

Japingka Aboriginal Art

NOW - AUG 29
Goldfields Art Centre Gallery, Kalgoorlie
NOW - AUG 18