Art Collective WA
2/565 Hay Street, Cathedral Square, Perth, WA 6000 [Map 19] 08 9325 7237 Wed to Fri 11am–4pm, Sat 12pm–4pm, or by appointment.
Until 21 January 2024
TEN
Showing at Holmes à Court Gallery, Vasse Felix, Margaret River
In celebration of Art Collective WA’s first decade of operation as an artist-owned, non-profit organisation, TEN showcases the achievements of its 36 member artists with a group show of entirely new works including painting, sculpture and photography. The exhibition illustrates the richness of contemporary art practice in Western Australia and features many of the state’s most significant artists.
Until 18 November
In Search of Painting
George Haynes
Tracing his influential, 60-year career, In Search of Painting is a survey exhibition of new and existing works by George Haynes, one of Western Australia’s most significant and prolific living painters. The 84-year-old artist is known as a master of light, creating paintings that are characteristically drenched in colour, demonstrating a keen observation of everyday Australian life and landscape. Alongside the exhibition, Art Collective WA is producing the first ever monograph about George Haynes’ career as a painter, teacher and mentor, with over 150 photographs and essays by art critic John McDonald and curator Sally Quin.
25 November–20 December
A Concentrated Experience
Eveline Kotai, Trevor Vickers, Pam Gaunt, Jacky Cheng, Sarah Thorton-Smith
Curated by Dunja Rmandić.
A series of steps, movements, manoeuvres. They give form to an intricate balance between potentialities and boundaries of medium as well as the joy and tension of precision at the core of the works in this show. Their ‘smallness’ emphatically allows, demands, a pondering that creates what Paul Patros—in writing about modernist abstraction and early work of Trevor Vickers—referred to as ‘a concentrated experience’. This expanded experience sits in the plainness of materials, the primacy of the makers’ mark, the slowness of labour, the joy of making, the frustration of repetition, the meditation that becomes form.
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.
