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Locality: Perth, Western Australia

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25.01.2022 AGWA READING ROOM // In Conversation: The Lester Prize judges 2020 The individuals tasked with deciding who took home the share of nearly $85,000 prize pool in this year's The Lester Prize are AGWA’s Guest Artistic Director Ian Strange, Art Historian and Professor Dr Clarissa Ball and Director of John Curtin Gallery Chris Malcolm. A decision certainly not made lightly, we caught up with the judges to understand just what they look for in a portrait, the significance of the ...style and how their individual experiences shape that very first glance at a piece. Read on by the visiting the link. #artgallerywa #thelesterprize #portraiture #australianart #faceofinspiration Credits Photos Johannes Reinhart Artwork courtesy of the artist

25.01.2022 To all the dads out there, Happy Fathers Day! This lovely work by Nyaparu (William) Gardiner, My Father was a Station Hand reflects on childhood memories, as well as Gardiners fathers involvement in the Pilbara strike of the late 1940s, where some 800 workers walked off pastoral stations demanding a paid wage. #FathersDay #NyaparuWilliamGardiner Image credit:... My Father was a Station Hand 2016 pen and pencil on paper 30 x 42 cm State Art Collection, Art Gallery of Western Australia Purchased through the Art Gallery of Western Australia Foundation: TomorrowFund, 2017 Nyapura (William) Gardiner, 2016 See more

23.01.2022 We are celebrating #AskaCurator day today! If youve ever wanted to know what our curators do, who their favourite artist is or why they decided to become a curator nows your chance to ask. Need more inspiration? Visit the following page for more questions you may want to seek answers to from our curators. https://bit.ly/3kjWRss Write your questions below and we will share the answers with you via our stories.

23.01.2022 ENTRIES OPEN FOR PULSE PERSPECTIVES 2021! Annual showcase #PulsePerspectives gauges the pulse of young people who will influence, empower and shape the world we live in. We are pleased to announce the opening of entries for Pulse Perspectives 2021, with schools across WA invited to submit entries for all eligible students. Closing date for entries is 30 October 2020.... Find out more and submit entries at https://bit.ly/35kx3IA #pulseperspectives #agwapulse #actbelongcommit Image credit: Charlotte Olsen Geraldton Grammar School See with your hands feel with your eyes 2019

22.01.2022 Congratulations to 2006 #PulsePerspectives alumni Meyne Wyatt, whos just won the Packing Room Prize in the Art Gallery of New South Wales #ArchibaldPrize Always exciting to see where the huge creativity of our #agwapulse finalists can take them!

22.01.2022 Robert Junipers Outcamp builds a wide desert landscape from densely painted tones of red and orange. This 1977 work captures his enduring interest in human interaction with the West Australian environment. Stray bits of iron and timber are scattered like litter across the foreground, creating a stark contrast with the soft shading of the trees and sky. Where there was once a small settlement or town, theres now just debris; as Elwyn Lynn notes in The Art of Robert Juniper..., what might be useful is taken elsewhere and such towns gradually disappear. #wafocus #robertjuniper #artgallerywa Image credit: Robert Juniper Outcamp 1977 oil on canvas 172.8 x 233.8 cm State Art Collection, Art Gallery of Western Australia Purchased with the assistance of the Friends of the Art Gallery, 1978

21.01.2022 See your State Art Collection from a new perspective with FREE guided tours running this weekend - today at 11am and tomorrow at 11am and 2pm. Join our Gallery Guides for that extra insight into the artwork, the era and the artist. View the full program at https://bit.ly/3lmT8vs #artgallerywa #guidedtours #sharingourstateartcollection Image credit:... Howard Taylor Double self-portrait 1959 Oil on composition board, 71.8 x 84 cm (sight) 93.2 x 105.5 cm (framed) State Art Collection, Art Gallery of Western Australia Purchased 1985 See more

20.01.2022 AGWA Gently: An Early Childhood Professional Learning Workshop Early childhood educators, this ones for you! Join Artist Educator and AGWA Learning and Creativity Research Manager Lilly Blue on 2 October for a day of experimental practice and poetic pedagogies. Develop a new toolkit of strategies for learning activities based around the creative play project #AGWAGently. Limited places available! Book now at https://bit.ly/3jyP35S #agwagently #agwalearning #creativelearning

19.01.2022 For those who missed How Did I Get Here? at the East Pilbara Art Centre last month, heres an inside look at the exhibition, which featured the work of several Martumili Artists alongside artworks from the State Art Collection #freightingideas #regionalexhibitiontouringbost #artonthemove #artgallerywa #artinwa #martumiliarts

19.01.2022 Stewart MacFarlanes The Re-Enactment presents the unsettling image of a motionless young woman, framed by a backdrop of Perth highways and the Swan River. In this latest feature from our #CollectionMoments series, hear from AGWA Curator of Western Australian and Australian Art, Robert Cook about how MacFarlane constructed this painting and the way it captures a distinct period in Perth. The Re-Enactment is now on display in our #AGWAContemporary gallery. #CollectionMoments #AGWAContemporary

19.01.2022 Herbert McClintock Composition 1938 oil on canvas on cardboard 64.8 x 39.4 cm State Art Collection, Art Gallery of Western Australia... Gift of H B Jackson, 1940 Ernest Philpot Sleeping bridge 1954 oil on hardboard 69.8 x 85.1 cm State Art Collection, Art Gallery of Western Australia Purchased 1958 Iris Francis The Cellist c1940 oil on board 81 x 65.5 cm (framed) State Art Collection, Art Gallery of Western Australia Purchased 1995 Iris Francis Self portrait c1960 oil on board 54 x 43 cm State Art Collection, Art Gallery of Western Australia Purchased 2001 Ivan Bray Creation 1990 oil on canvas 122 x 115 cm State Art Collection, Art Gallery of Western Australia Purchased 1990 Audrey Greenhalgh Seascape 1967 oil on gauze over hardboard 52.3 x 67cm (framed) State Art Collection, Art Gallery of Western Australia Gift of Sue and Ian Bernadt, 1992 Elise Blumann Surf 1939-1946 oil and gouache on masonite 74 x 65 cm State Art Collection, Art Gallery of Western Australia Purchased 1985

17.01.2022 Always Was, Always Will Be. For NAIDOC Week, AGWA hosted a suite of activities to celebrate the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples. Thank you to Barry McGuire, Sharyn Egan, Ron Bradfield Jr and Rebecca Rickard for sharing your knowledge, history and culture with us. We hope everyone who came enjoyed the experience. Photography by Rebecca Mansell

17.01.2022 Two sacred rock caves dating back more than 46,000 years at Juukan Gorge, north-west of Tom Price in the Pilbara were destroyed by a mining corporation in May this year. "MISUNDERSTANDING" by Tony Albert was acquired by the Gallery soon after. This small but powerful work not only responds to a key incident in our State, but brings attention to how normal it is to sacrifice Aboriginal people, places and culture for the greater good of Australia. Referencing the velvet paintin...gs popular in the 1970s, "MISUNDERSTANDING" highlights a deep disregard for Aboriginal people and the basic right to safeguard and protect culture. This work is currently on display at AGWA. Image credit: Tony Albert MISUNDERSTANDING 2020 Acrylic spray paint on vintage velvet painting 36 x 26 cm State Art Collection, Art Gallery of Western Australia Purchased 2020 Tony Albert Image courtesy Sullivan+Strumpf

16.01.2022 From the urgency of the Black Lives Matter movement to the unimaginable impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, everyone will probably agree that 2020 has been a year of real extremes so far. Artworks can take on new meaning at times like these. Recently our curators selected a series of works from your State Art Collection that capture different experiences of COVID-19 as well as bringing narratives about racism and Australias own complex history into focus. Explore how these w...orks resonate with your own recent experiences in a new visual essay, Finding solace in the Gallery, in the AGWA Reading Room. Following that, why not come see them in the space this weekend. Were open from 10am 5pm. #agwacontemporary #agwareadingroom #artgallerywa

16.01.2022 LAST DAYS to see this years #TomMalonePrize exhibition. From the personal to the observational, these fifteen works demonstrate the incredible adaptability and innovation of contemporary glass art. This work by Kate Baker, Between Intimacy and Trespass #3 merges photo, print and digital media technologies with studio glass, creating an intriguing portrait of emotional and psychological experience. Tom Malone Prize 2020 will close Monday 31 August. #tommaloneprize #glassart... #katebaker #contemporaryglassart Image credit Kate Baker Between Intimacy and Trespass #3 2019 hand and digitally printed silver mirror 100 x 120 x 3 cm Courtesy the artist Kate Baker Photo: Brenton McGeachie

14.01.2022 Emerald Lays small porcelain works, Tides of convergence, present some pretty big themes. Part of this years #PulsePerspectives exhibition, the pieces reference globalisation and consumerism not just in the delicately painted iconography, but also by Lays choice of medium. Her porcelain-making techniques derive from Western methods of slip-casting and decorating which were themselves appropriated from China some centuries ago. Linking the past with the present are advert...ising logos combined with imagery from Chinese scroll paintings and ukiyo-e Japanese prints. "Cultural convergence benefits society, but can deplete natures landscapes, traditions and the environment. Globalisation and consumerism aid the development of cultural convergence: it is a force that cannot be stopped." Emerald Lay Theres just a few weeks left to VOTE in the Act-Belong-Commit Peoples Choice Award. Have your say at https://bit.ly/2TjEbhP #pulseperspectives #agwapulse #actbelongcommit Image credit: Emerald Lay Applecross Senior High School Tides of convergence 2019 porcelain, gold, porcelain paint, thread 16 x 17 x 25 cm

13.01.2022 We’re so incredibly grateful and delighted to have the following panel speakers take part in the Long Table Discussion taking place this weekend (21 Nov) as part of ‘I want a future that lives up to my past: David McDiarmid and local queer stories’ display. What will be a powerful and enlightening discussion focusing on the late 1980s and early 1990s in WA, we welcome everyone to the event and to contribute, share or simply listen as we celebrate the strength of our community.... We hope to see you there. Panel speakers: Janet Carter, artist and lifelong queer activist and current artist in residence at PICA where she is developing a body of work around queer family and kinship ties. Esther Montgomery is a historian, author, advocate and LGBTQ+ social justice campaigner. Tim Brown, owner of Connections, the longest continuous running gay club in the Southern Hemisphere. Jo Darbyshire, artist and social history curator. Worked as artist-in-residence at the WA Museum to create a groundbreaking exhibition The Gay Museum; the history of lesbian and gay presence in Western Australia (2003). Gavin McGuren and founding member of the Gay Law Reform Group of WA, the Gay Men’s Education Strategies Committee and founding member of Westside Observer. Barbara Helena Hostalek is an emerging playwright and spoken word poet. Maxine Drake, current ambassador at the Same-Sex Parent’s Association, an advocacy consultant at Developmental Disability WA and former WA AIDS Council member. Mark Reid, founder and the Artistic Director for the PRIDE Queer Film Festival, previous board member and Chairperson of multiple organisations involved supporting with those with AIDS and research and former WA AIDS Council member. Brian Greig OAM (he/him) past WA Senator and the first LGBTQIA+ rights activist elected to any Australian parliament, and first federal MP to acknowledge their sexuality Noemie Huttner-Koros, is the organiser of Arts & Cultural Workers for Climate Action, a co-director of interdisciplinary performance group KAN Collective, and an artist dramaturg and a poet. More details on our website or check out our Facebook event. https://bit.ly/37K8cz5 #artgallerywa #pride Pride WA #pica #wamuseum

13.01.2022 A lot of rain means a lot of rainbows Who else has been wowed by all the rainbows framing Perth skies lately? This 2011 series by Perth-based artist Sin MacPherson takes a meteorological approach to the visual spectacle of rainbows, translating weather data into bright sequences of colour. To prepare the works, MacPherson collated statistics about how the size of raindrops affects the overall brilliance and perceived density of rainbows. Each painting consists of some 40,0...00 small dots, decreasing in size across the panels until the spectrum of colour has faded to a misty grey-white. #agwacontemporary #sinemacpherson #spectrumoflight Image credit: Sin MacPherson Rainbow 1-3 (from Rainbow series) 2011 oil and enamel on canvas State Art Collection, Art Gallery of Western Australia Purchased through the Art Gallery of Western Australia Foundation: TomorrowFund, 2011

13.01.2022 Pulse Perspectives artist Sarah Bastow grew up with beehives and has a unique take on the disturbing trend of declining bee populations. With the combined impact of climate change, pesticides and disease, the total Australian Honeybee population has been found to be decreasing every year, a pattern that is echoed globally. In her work Hive Sarah reflects on this issue, as well as highlighting the geometric beauty of these buzzing structures The work is inspired by my ...interest having grown up with beehives and my concern for their recent population decline. Bees and their hives often connote busyness, community and chaos I aimed to create a focus on the beauty of nature. Sarah Bastow Let us know which #PulsePerspectives is your favourite by voting in the #ActBelongCommit Peoples Choice Award! https://bit.ly/2TjEbhP #pulseperspectives #agwapulse #savethebees #actbelongcommit Image credit: Sarah Bastow St Marys Anglican Girls School Hive 2019 (detail) MDF, paperclay, wire, lace, felt wool, colour pencil, scratch board, foam clay, acrylic paint five parts: 62 x 76.7 x 18 cm overall See more

12.01.2022 Basking in the soft rays of TJYLLYUNGOO Lance Chadds Morning Thanks @greenearthenterpriseswa on Instagram for sharing this beautiful shot. Find this work in our #WAFocus gallery. #myagwamoment #wafocus Image credit:... TJYLLYUNGOO Lance Chadd Morning 2000 synthetic polymer paint on canvas 121.6 x 181.6 cm (framed) State Art Collection, Art Gallery of Western Australia Purchased 2002 TJYLLYUNGOO Lance Chadd, 2000 See more

11.01.2022 Who better to interpret the diverse works of #PulsePerspectives than our team of youth Adjunct Guides? Co-sharing tours of the exhibition with experienced AGWA Guides for the first time this year, Adjunct Guides bring a welcomed youth perspective to the exhibition. In this online guided tour, Adjunct Guide Zoe Wells explores how Pulse Perspectives artists have represented the Year 12 experience. From shattered crockery to Shamanism to rusted metal, join Zoe as she takes us through three very different pieces that all speak to the final year of high school. #pulseperspectives #agwapulse #actbelongcommit #artgallerywa

11.01.2022 Thank you OUTinPerth for helping us get the word out about AGWA's powerful new display ‘I want a future that lives up to my past’: David McDiarmid and local queer stories. With archival material from Gay And Lesbian Archives Western Australia Inc. G A L A W A, forgotten stories and voices of the LBGTIQA+ community on display from the 1980s to 90s, it is a showcase of their struggles; their support for each other and their fight for civil rights and reform. As part of PrideFEST, the Gallery is hosting a Long Table event taking place from 12pm today featuring a panel of speakers who all have an important story to tell. We hope you will join us for this discussion either at AGWA or from home. #artgallerywa #pridewa

10.01.2022 You might have noticed all the changes going on outside the AGWA Building as our rooftop redevelopment #Elevate gets underway, but inside the Gallery, were revitalising spaces too. Our AGWA Modern gallery, home to works from 1920 to 1969, is temporarily closed and will reopen later this year as a gallery for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander works from the AGWA Collection. We apologise in advance for any extra noise that may come up over this period! Stay tuned for upda...tes over the months to come #revitalisingyourgallery #elevate #myagwamoment #artgallerywa Image credit: AGWA Modern Installation view, 2018 Foreground artwork: Niki de Saint Phalle Black Beauty (Nana Series) 1968 State Art Collection, Art Gallery of Western Australia Purchased 1982

10.01.2022 Brenda L. Croft is from the Gurindji/Malngin/Mudburra peoples from the Victoria River region of the Northern Territory and is one of Australia's most celebrated multi-disciplinary artists. In this powerful series, Brenda places each of the Indigenous models front and centre within the urban Sydney landscape, more specifically in Redfern, an important Indigenous hub and a contested space which has since been transformed through property development. The images respond to conce...rns at the time that Indigenous people had no visibility or voice. Decisions regarding development in Redfern were being made despite community objections, and through this body of work, Croft gave a voice to the community. These photographs now act as an important historical document, depicting a now unrecognisable cityscape. The series of photographic works were produced for the Conference Call project where Croft worked alongside international conceptual artist Adrian Piper and was exhibited at the Biennale of Sydney in 1992. Brenda was AGWA's Curator of Indigenous Art from 1999 to 2001 and the 2003 exhibition at AGWA titled 'Southwest/Central: Indigenous art from southwestern Australia, 1833 - 2002' was curated by her as part of the Perth International Arts Festival. #NAIDOC2020 #alwayswasalwayswillbe #artgallerywa #redfern Image credit Brenda L. CROFT Bonny Briggs and Mathew Cook, Pitt Street, Redfern; Sue Ingram, Regent Street, Redfern; Joseph Croft and Mervyn Bishop, Cleveland Street/Prince Alfred Park, Redfern; Noel Collett and Shane Phillips, Eveleigh Street, Redfern (1992) R3 Colour Print on photographic paper 127.0 x 156.0 cm State Art Collection, Art Gallery of Western Australia Gift of Brenda Croft under the Commonwealth Government's Cultural Gifts Program, 2012. Brenda L. Croft, 1992.

09.01.2022 Like most of Western Australia, we're looking forward to the re-opening of our friends next door! The WA Museum Boola Bardip will be welcoming visitors again from this Saturday 21 November and to celebrate this wonderful occasion, AGWA along with the Perth Cultural Centre family will be hosting many activities for all to participate. With glorious weather predicted and good company guaranteed, there's no excuse to not join in the party. Visit the link below to find out... what's on at AGWA and the Perth Cultural Centre over the 9 days of celebration. https://visit.museum.wa.gov.au/boolaba/opening-celebrations See you there! #artgallerywa

07.01.2022 The first European farmers forced the local Indigenous people off their traditional lands and stripped the landscape for agriculture in the process ethno-culturally clearing the landscape of Aboriginal identity. This powerful photographic series by Australian multi-disciplinary contemporary artist, James Tylor seeks to challenge the notion that the Australian landscape was 'untouched' before European colonisation. Born in Victoria Tylor later moving to Kununurra and Derby in ...the Kimberley region of Western Australia in his adolescent years. Using a variety of artforms Tylor’s work focuses largely on the history of 19th century Australia and its continual effect on present-day issues surrounding cultural identity and the environment. His solo exhibition From an Untouched Landscape recently opened at the Canberra Contemporary Art Space for the Design Canberra Festival. If you're in the area do go schedule in a visit to view his amazing works. They will be on display until 29 November. #artgallerywa #NAIDOC2020 #alwayswasalwayswillbe Image credit James Tylor (Deleted scenes) From an untouched landscape #10 2013 inkjet print on Hahnemuhle paper 2/5, 50.0 x 50.0 cm State Art Collection, Art Gallery of Western Australia Purchased through The Leah Jane Cohen Bequest, Art Gallery of Western Australia Foundation, 2014 James Taylor, 2013

07.01.2022 Putting the final touches on our newly refreshed #AGWAModern display See old favourites in a new way with this selection of Collection highlights dating from between 1920 to 1969. Open this weekend from 10am-5pm! #agwamodern #revitalisingyourgallery #artgallerywa Image credit:... AGWA Modern installation view (Clockwise) Artworks by John Nash, Paul Nash, John Perceval, Sidney Nolan, John Power and Russell Drysdale See more

07.01.2022 Theres not long left to VOTE in the Act-Belong-Commit Peoples Choice Award! Which Pulse Perspectives work is your favourite? Let us know before Sunday 27 September via https://bit.ly/2TjEbhP This work by artist Jaaron Davis, a Kalkadoon and Wani man from Mount Isa, brings together ideas around personal belonging, spirituality and Aboriginality: "I wanted to share the place I am part of, and to create an artwork that shows my spiritual and physical interaction with my h...ome... The composition is symbolic of a meeting place and water provides a spiritual connection to my story." #agwapulse #pulseperspectives #actbelongcommit Image credit: Jaaron Davis Christ Church Grammar School Falcons (Im) diving for Blue Bone 2019 acrylic on board five parts: 120 x 110 x 5 cm overall

07.01.2022 John Bracks spare Melbourne scene, The Short Street is among the works on display in our re-imagined AGWA Modern gallery. Hung in clusters which stretch nearly to the ceiling, this refreshed display allows a new perspective on familiar State Art Collection works. Works like this unusual streetscape, one of Bracks early paintings, reflect complex feelings around a rapidly changing mid-twentieth century world. As everyday an event as a baker delivering bread has become som...ehow unsettling, with the scenes salmon-pink sky and flattened, practically shadowless forms. Displayed alongside surrealistic landscapes by artists like Paul Nash and Adrian Feint, the works atmosphere of almost dreamlike unreality, as Brack called it, opens out a compelling view of the modern period. Rediscover your State Art Collection in this refreshed display titled They will see us waving from such great heights, now on display in our temporary #AGWAModern gallery. #agwamodern #johnbrack #artgallerywa Image credit: John (Cecil) Brack The Short Street 1953 oil on canvas 38.3 x 45.8 cm unframed 49.5 x 57.0 cm framed State Art Collection, Art Gallery of Western Australia Purchased 1954

07.01.2022 At once a reflection on contemporary Australian culture, an exploration of larger global issues, and personal reflections on family and identity, Pulse Perspectives provides a comprehensive insight into the lives of young people who have just finished high school. Thanks Seesaw Magazine for this thoughtful review of our #PulsePerspectives exhibition! Read more on how the broad themes of this exhibition come together below #agwapulse #pulseperspectives #actbelongcommit

06.01.2022 R U OK? Many of us have faced new and unexpected challenges this year. R U OK Day is a reminder to check in with family, friends and colleagues and open conversations that could make a real difference. Like the central figure in this work by Jenny Watson, we can be our own kinds of super heroes, flying to the rescue of those in need with a pot of tea and listening ear at the ready.... As R U OK Day reminds us this year, #theresmoretosay after "R U OK?" Head to https://bit.ly/1uvWfA1 for further resources, insights and support. #RUOKDay #theresmoretosay #RUOKeveryday #actbelongcommit Image credit: Jenny Watson The red dress 1987 oil on red dyed cotton 83.3 x 162.8cm State Art Collection, Art Gallery of Western Australia Purchased 1992

04.01.2022 Inspired by the experimental collage and photomontage of the Dada movement, Ryan Foxs Pulse Perspectives work, HU//MN project, also makes a strong personal statement. Each of the delicately suspended dolls represent different sides to his personality; or as Ryan puts it, aspects of myself I would like to improve or change my athletic ability, my ability to understand others, my levels of compassion for others and myself and my general struggle to achieve these qualities.... The suspended dolls are like thoughts in my head interacting with each other. See the extraordinary detail and emotion of these figures up close in the #PulsePerspectives exhibition. Pulse Perspectives is supported by Healthway and the #actbelongcommit campaign: reminding us that getting creative and staying mentally healthy can be as simple as A-B-C: Act-Belong-Commit. #pulseperspectives #agwapulse #actbelongcommit Image credit: Ryan Fox Lake Joondalup Baptist College HU//MN project 2019 (detail) acrylic Perspex, paper collage, oil paint, gold leaf, chain thirteen parts: 113 x 30 x 30 cm overall

03.01.2022 The Gallery is incredibly sad to hear of the passing of John Nixon (1949-2020). AGWA Curator Robert Cook reflects on Nixons unique contribution to Australian contemporary art: "Internationally respected for his singular contribution to modernist abstraction, John was flat-out one of the best artists in the country, a genuine great. A keeper of the do-it-yourself punk flame, that matched the period he grew up in and creatively responded to, John combined an uncompromising art...istic agenda with a kind, down-to-earth, genial and generous spirit. He was loved and respected by so many here in the West, including all staff who worked him over the years at AGWA and, most particularly, those friends and artists around the Australian Centre 4 Concrete Art. I was enormously privileged to work with John on his exhibition John Nixon, Matter (selected works on paper 1968-2005) here in 2005, a show that brought together his collages, drawings, self-publishing ventures, musical recordings and graphic design. The experience was truly profound; his creative reach, intellectual generosity and metaphor-laden speech pattern was captivating, as was his ability to bring each individual works form, scale and materiality into electric conversation with its surrounds. His feel for the grain and matter of the activity and outcome of cultural production was precise, manifesto-led and always perfect. Always. At the end of last year, the Gallery featured six text works from 1977 in That Seventies feelingthe late modern. I set them out with two young artists and installers. Seen from our different generations it was clear, they were absolutely of this shared moment. Fresh, on point, as well as being strangely joyous, they were not historical objects and never would be. They read: Reform Our Practice; Unite Victoriously and Advance; Struggle Criticism Transformation; Develop Class Consciousness; Combat Bourgeois and Sexist Culture and, the last, and the one that summed up his approach to making and thinking generally: Learn from Practical Daily Life. Johns work was a vehicle to attend to this, and it is an example that will always be relevant. The Gallery honours Johns immense contribution to the nations culture and sends our thoughts to his family, his many friends, his countless admirers and his impassioned interlocutors." Robert Cook Curator of West Australian and Australian Art Image credit: John Nixon Six texts: (short and to the point) 1977 letterset, pencil on coloured cardboard (yellow, blue, red, green, orange, black) (a) 9.4 x 11.1cm (b) 12.8 x 9.2cm (c) 12.7 x 9.4cm (d) 12.2 x 8.6cm (e) 11.2 x 13.3cm (f) 11.1 x 8.7cm State Art Collection, Art Gallery of Western Australia Purchased 1989

02.01.2022 Cloud patterns and their endless variations were central to James W R Lintons practice throughout his career. Arriving in Western Australia from England in 1896, Linton became a pivotal figure in the development of West Australian art through the first half of the twentieth century. Unlike many artists working in Australia however, his landscapes dont reveal an overriding interest in the distinctively bright light, choosing instead to paint his scenes at times "when the cle...arness of the atmosphere [was] tempered by soft fleecy clouds, or by the softening tone of twilight as a critic noted in 1907. This c. 1935 work, Landscape of York, Western Australia, is now on display in our #WAFocus gallery. #wafocus #jameswrlinton #landscapepainting #agwahistorical Image credit: James W R Linton Landscape of York, Western Australia c 1935 oil on canvas 60.8 x 91.4 cm State Art Collection, Art Gallery of Western Australia Purchased 1973

02.01.2022 Applications are now open for the 2021 #TomMalonePrize! As this years Tom Malone Prize exhibition draws to a close, were now accepting entries for the 2021 Prize Submit your work before 17 November for the chance to be featured in this highly respected national event for Australian glass artists. Visit our website for more details - https://bit.ly/2XXI8Mi... You can view the work of this years Tom Malone Prize finalists in the Gallery before 31 August or online via https://bit.ly/2s4pi8j #tommaloneprize #glassart #glassartists #contemporaryglassart Image credit: Ben Edols and Kathy Elliott There Will Be More Than Ocean Water Broken 2019 blown and carved glass 36 x 42 x 10 cm Courtesy the artists Benjamin Edols and Kathy Elliott Photo: Greg Piper

02.01.2022 Celebrate Fathers Day this Sunday with a one-of-a-kind gift from the AGWA Shop! Heres a special selection to honour the special man in your life: Pluk Skincare District 6 scented candle with notes of cardamom, cedarwood, cyclamen, clove, ginger, peppercorn, basil, and white grapefruit, $40 Retro Watches Modern Collectors Guide book, $40... St James Supply Co clove & lemon myrtle gift set, including solid shampoo and conditioner blocks, terrazzo soap, shaving razor and bamboo toothbrush, $65 Chatty Feet socks in a variety of designs, including Sole-Adore Dali and David Toewie, $17ea Tiipoi Brutalist Flyover concrete vase, $205 The Art Gallery Shop is open Weds-Mon, 10am 5pm 9492 6712 #agwashop #fathersdaygifts #artgallerywa See more

01.01.2022 Poppies are a poignant symbol of Remembrance Day. It's origins lie in the landscapes of the First World War where they grew and flourished on the ravaged battlefields in Western Europe. This still life painting titled 'Poppies' by Australian artist George Bell shows a vibrant display of Iceland poppies. Bell served in World War 1 as an official war artist to the 4th Division of the Australian Imperial Force. In 1918 he was sent to the Western Front where he concentrated most ...of his work in capturing images of the aftermath of war. Today at 11am the Gallery will hold a minutes silence in memory of the lives lost and for those who have lost loved ones in conflicts around the world. We hope you will join us in remembering. #remembranceday #lestweforget #artgallerywa George Bell Poppies 1941 oil on canvas 76.2 x 76.4 cm State Art Collection, Art Gallery of Western Australia Purchased 1973