Art Collective WA
2/565 Hay Street, Cathedral Square, Perth, WA 6000 [Map 19]
08 9325 7237
Wed to Fri 11am–4pm, Sat 12noon–4pm, or by appointment.
22 October—19 November
Echoes from the Forest
Nigel Hewitt
Paintings made from ash samples collected from bushfire sites across Tasmania. The tones of the ash vary depending on the vegetation and the differing temperatures of the wild fires. The artist brings these charred organic compounds together to create pictorial, almost photographic, tributes to landscape. They are a plea for action. A call from the forest, awaiting a response.
22 October—19 November
Portraits of the Dead
Rebecca Dagnall
A contemplative look at the notion of Solastalgia, coined by Australian philosopher Glenn Albrecht, and defined as, ‘the lived experience of negative environmental change’, akin to ‘the homesickness you have when you are still at home’. A series of portraits and landscapes that pays homage to lives and habitats lost or irreparably damaged through the carelessness of humans.
26 November—17 December
Of Ghosts and Angels
Lesley Duxbury, Sarah Elson, Galliano Fardin, Derek O’Connor, Gregory Pryor, Paul Uhlmann, Toni Wilkinson
We are living through an undeniably turbulent period. At times this leads to a form of collective mental paralysis. Art has a way of identifying lived experience and gives form to unnamed emotions; for example, the stasis of Durer’s androgenous angel who listlessly takes in a shooting comet (Melencolia I, 1514). This exhibition is a cry to break the ice, to find solace within events and to find a moment’s peace. It embraces the creative process as a positive human act.
The Art Gallery of Western Australia
Perth Cultural Centre, Perth, WA 6000 [Map 19]
08 9492 6600
Infoline: 08 9492 6622 Wed to Mon 10am–5pm.
18 November—23 April 2023
I have not loved (enough or worked)
The Simon Lee Foundation Institute of Contemporary Asian Art (SLF ICAA), a major new curatorial and creative initiative at AGWA supported by the Simon Lee Foundation. This first exhibition I have presented by SLF ICAA brings together films, photography, painting and sculpture by Hai-Hsin Huang, Daisuke Kosugi, Pixy Liao, Lin Zhipeng (aka No.223), Rinko Kawauchi, Sejin Kim, Lieko Shiga, and Tao Hui, to reveal how deeply enmeshed our bodies, and the subjective forces of love and desire, are within the formations of globalisation, colonialism, technology and capitalism.
