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.
4 February–4 March
Scarp
Merrick Belyea
New paintings by Merrick Belyea continue his concentration on the outer edges of suburban Perth. Looking upwards towards an edge geographically and geologically unlike the plain below, the scarp becomes metaphor – unobtainable, unscalable, and despite nearby colonised corridors remains largely untouched. Beyond this arcadian, truly ancient landscape we glimpse a threat, where wilful neglect is making an irreversible mark on a paradise garden.
4 February–4 March
Presence and Absence
Joanna Lamb
A series of new prints depict intimate views in and around the home. Although devoid of the people who inhabit the spaces, the works still record their presence. For example in the way a garden is tended, or a vase of flowers is arranged. What is left out is just as important as what is left in. Screen printing naturally lends itself to this idea of presence and absence, through the reduction of a view and a carefully considered arrangement of colour, shape and composition.
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.
Until 8 January
Speech Patterns; Nadia Hernández and Jon Campbell
Speech Patterns is an entwined and layered conversation between the work of contemporary artists Nadia Hernández and Jon Campbell. This vibrant exhibition is full of life, poetry and feeling and is comprised of paintings, paste-ups, drawings, posters, banners and flags from across the span of their individual practices.
Until 23 April
I have not loved (enough or worked)
Presented by the Simon Lee Foundation Institute of Contemporary Asian Art, a brings together works in video, 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 fantasies of ‘the good life’.
