Gotham Arts Studios in Perth, Western Australia | Non-profit organisation

Gotham Arts Studios

Locality: Perth, Western Australia

Address: 57 James St 6000 Perth, WA, Australia

Website: http://gothamstudios.org/

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23.01.2022 BeQuest ReVolution Kate Koivisto Wheeler, (working images) metal, wood, plaster and plastic objects on oil on (four) photo frames (2018) ON (exhortation: combine two (or more) elements into something..). BeQuest ReVolution... 15 December 2018 to 14 February 2019 Rikard Fåhraeus & Kate Koivisto Wheeler Peek-a-Boo Gallery, Gotham Studios 57 James Street Northbridge WA http://www.gothamstudios.org/news

23.01.2022 Andrew Nicholls, Death and the Youth #1, watercolour and archival ink pen on paper, 21 x 14.8 cm, 2020, $250.00 Death and the Youth #2, watercolour and archival ink pen on paper, 21 x 14.8 cm, 2020, $250.00 My works for Beauty Salon draw upon the Vanitas tradition, specifically the medieval trope of 'Death and the Maiden', a motif that reoccurs throughout the past few centuries of Western art as a warning about the impermanence of youth and beauty, by depicting a young... maiden being pursued or embraced by death (most often in the form of a living skeleton). My variations on this theme depict a young male friend embracing a skull, and in line with the medieval trope represent a kitsch meditation on the fleeting beauty of youth, and the inevitability of ageing and mortality. The two works mirror each other, again subtly alluding to the theme of vanity. These works have also provided an opportunity for me to experiment with watercolour for the first time; this is a medium I have wanted to incorporate into my practice for a number of years but have not previously had the opportunity to do so. Website: www.andrewnicholls.com.au Facebook: www.facebook.com/andrew.nichollsartist IG: @andrewnichollsartist

23.01.2022 Showing 24/7 until 28 February 2019*** BeQuest ReVolution 15 December 2018 to 28 February 2019 Rikard Fåhraeus & Kate Koivisto Wheeler Peek-a-Boo Gallery, Gotham Studios... 57 James Street Northbridge WA http://www.gothamstudios.org/news

22.01.2022 BeQuest ReVolution Kate Koivisto Wheeler, LU (detail: working image), allen key, glass perfume bottle, nail polish, felt, string, oil on board (2018) (exhortation: ..untangled/healed from hybris by means of the electronic or/and a laser) BeQuest ReVolution... 16 December 2018 to 14 February 2019 Rikard Fåhraeus & Kate Koivisto Wheeler Peek-a-Boo Gallery, Gotham Studios 57 James Street Northbridge WA http://www.gothamstudios.org/news

22.01.2022 BeQuest ReVolution Rikard Fåhraeus, TI, watercolour on paper (2018) (exhortation: escape by playing a game with sun, water..) BeQuest ReVolution... 16 December 2018 to 14 February 2019 Rikard Fåhraeus & Kate Koivisto Wheeler Peek-a-Boo Gallery, Gotham Studios 57 James Street Northbridge WA http://www.gothamstudios.org/news

21.01.2022 Twenty years ago, give or take a day or two.

21.01.2022 'Meshwork' (detail), detail of installation by Gemma Watson at Peekaboo Gallery, Jan-Feb 2020

21.01.2022 Magda Joubert, 'Petition # 8\10\2020' (view of installation), balsa wood carved objects, acrylic on board, 92 x 110 cm, 2020 Showing now at Peekaboo Gallery, 57 James Street, Northbridge

20.01.2022 One of Gotham Studio's newest members, respected Western Australian artist Thea Costantino is showing a work from her acclaimed 'Ancestors' series this month in Gotham's Peeka-Boo window box gallery. 'Ancestor V' (2012) is part of an eight-part series which considers legacies of empire and colonialism. Resplendent in elaborate headdresses and dressed in second hand clothing in various stages of ruin, these ancestors seem borrowed from military, religious and horror imagery. While satirising nationalistic and imperial nostalgia for a better time by alluding to the violent subtext of such desires, through its title the series also considers the uncomfortable position of belonging to, and benefiting from, a colonial culture. 'Ancestor V' can be viewed in the Peeka-Boo window box at 57 James Street, 24/7 until 15 November.

20.01.2022 BeQuest ReVolution Kate Koivisto Wheeler, TI (detail: working image), lip stain on plastic letter on oil on board (2018) (exhortation: find a way in without any previous connection) BeQuest ReVolution... 16 December 2018 to 14 February 2019 Rikard Fåhraeus & Kate Koivisto Wheeler Peek-a-Boo Gallery, Gotham Studios 57 James Street Northbridge WA http://www.gothamstudios.org/news

20.01.2022 Opening soon at Peekaboo Gallery

19.01.2022 BeQuest ReVolution Rikard Fåhraeus, LU, watercolour on paper (2018) (exhortation: red nail polish..fishnet stockings..a high place) BeQuest ReVolution... 16 December 2018 to 14 February 2019 Rikard Fåhraeus & Kate Koivisto Wheeler Peek-a-Boo Gallery, Gotham Studios 57 James Street Northbridge WA http://www.gothamstudios.org/news

18.01.2022 BeQuest ReVolution Rikard Fåhraeus, watercolour on paper (2018) ON (exhortation: Gather 11 sparkling silver and gold things..a lobby..the table). BeQuest ReVolution... 16 December 2018 to 14 February 2019 Rikard Fåhraeus & Kate Koivisto Wheeler Peek-a-Boo Gallery, Gotham Studios 57 James Street Northbridge WA http://www.gothamstudios.org/news

17.01.2022 Nathan Beard, 'Nois Palette', Clinique 03 Stay Beige (MF/M) Stay-Matte Sheer Pressed Powder on paper, 21 x 29.7cm, 2020 Showing now as part of 'Beauty Salon' at Peekaboo Gallery, 57 James Street, Northbridge. This work is a colour field made from the leftover foundation of my late mother. She had a very particular palette of Clinique foundation which she used for years and would always request this as a present for special occasions like her birthday or Mothers Day. The co...mpact used for this work was gifted to her by me for her birthday last year, and the unfinished foundation was amongst the possessions left in her purse after her sudden passing. Her taste reflected the idiosyncratic influences of her diasporic experience, situated in-between Thai and Australian cultures. Her unique aesthetic sensibility was often expressed in her fashion and her home using humble materials and highly decorative or colourful embellishments which may seem kitsch but were earnestly embraced for their innate beauty and enticing qualities. The materials and visual textures Ive used in my work are heavily indebted to her taste, and capturing the purity of her expressions of individuality. @nathansbeard Website https://www.nathanbeard.org

17.01.2022 BeQuest ReVolution continues with new work by Rikard Fåhraeus (watercolour on paper, 2018) RE Beginning with hammering a pin through two books featured in the Stockholm exhibition, "La Place de lÉtoile by Patrick Modiano, and Earthly Paradise by Colette, the process for BeQuest ReVolution involved each sending an exhortation to the other, which led to an action, from which the next exhortation was found. Then came a process of developing artworks from reflections and in...terpretations of the results. BeQuest ReVolution 16 December 2018 to 14 February 2019 Rikard Fåhraeus & Kate Koivisto Wheeler Peek-a-Boo Gallery, Gotham Studios 57 James Street Northbridge WA http://www.gothamstudios.org/news

16.01.2022 Wade Taylor, Colbrae, oil on wood, A4 dimensions, 2020, $600. Showing now at Peekaboo gallery, 57 James Street, Northbridge. A damp winter evening felling and burning a rotted out Jarrah. Charlie hears roos. Website www.wade-taylor.com... instagram wade_ See more

16.01.2022 We are happy to announce that our current exhibition at Peek-a-boo, BeQuest ReVolution, has been extended for all of February BeQuest ReVolution Rikard Fåhraeus and Kate Koivisto Wheeler Installation view... Watercolour on paper, oil and objects on board, objects BeQuest ReVolution 15 December 2018 to 28 February 2019 Rikard Fåhraeus & Kate Koivisto Wheeler Peek-a-Boo Gallery, Gotham Studios 57 James Street Northbridge WA http://www.gothamstudios.org/news

15.01.2022 Ryan Nazzari, 'Untitled', approximately 29.5 x 22 cm, 2020, NFS. Showing now in 'Beauty Salon' at Peekaboo Gallery, 57 James Street, Northbridge.

13.01.2022 Kate Koivisto Wheeler, Language (diptych I), lipstick on compact mirror (draft image of finished work), NFS, 2020 Showing at Peekaboo Gallery, 57 James Street, Northbridge - FINAL DAY TODAY. Materiality is important in my work. Experimental, painting-based, with aspects of both spontaneity and slow, still, attention, an essence. I began using make-up in my art practice in 1997, and for Beauty Salon, I wanted to make a painting using mirrors, lipstick as paint. This pa...inting, also appearing as a small dada-esque object, is open to different reflections and interpretations within the context of Beauty Salon, simultaneously the individual and the collective, the minute and the infinite. Web: http://www.gothamstudios.org/kate-koivisto-wheeler.html Instagram: @kate_koivisto_wheeler

12.01.2022 BeQuest ReVolution: Solution Essence, Unite Create, Spirit Flow, Catch Play Rikard Fåhraeus and Kate Koivisto Wheeler 18 December 2018 - 14 February 2019... Further information: http://www.gothamstudios.org/news

12.01.2022 Upcoming studio vacancy - Gotham Studios will have a visual artist's studio space available from 15 February - a small but very attractive corner room on the top floor of our building in central Northbridge, 10.5 square meters for $240/month (inclusive of rates and wifi). The studio will be allocated via a competitive application process. Please email [email protected] for further information. Applications will be accepted until 30 January, with the new tenant to move in from 15 February.

12.01.2022 Gotham Studios forthcoming studio vacancy. Gotham Studios is currently accepting applications for one of our smaller studio spaces at 57 James Street, Northbridge. Totalling 15 square meters, the space will be available from Thursday 15 August, for rent of $278.00 per month, inclusive of utilities and wifi. Applications are invited from Western Australian artists, with an application deadline of Sunday 4 August. The successful applicant will be informed by Saturday 10 Augus...t. For further information, to arrange to view the space, or to submit an application, please email Gotham Chairman Andrew Nicholls at [email protected] Applicants must include a current CV (maximum 2 pages), an artists statement broadly outlining their current practice (maximum 1 page), and a selection of images of recent artworks (maximum 10 images and/or a link to their website).

11.01.2022 Ben Waters, 'The weight (and the sea)', etched woodblock on piano black surface, 2020, $200. Showing now in 'Beauty Salon' at Peekaboo Gallery, 57 James Street, Northbridge. "Silver and black lit night, here's to a stealer's night An empty splendid castle Glowering alone at night, the princess has had a fight... Madness seeks out a lover And here come the waves Down by the shore Washing the soul of the body That comes form the depth of the sea Taken from 'Ocean' written by Lou Reed and performed by the Velvet Underground, 1969.

11.01.2022 BEAUTY SALON is a salon exhibition by 12 Perth-based artists invited to respond with drawing or painting to Beauty, Beauty Salon, Salon. 17 August - 15 September 2020 at Peek-a-Boo - Gotham's window gallery, viewable 24/7 from James Street Northbridge, directly opposite the Alex Hotel. More details: www.gothamstudios.org/news Artworks available for purchase. Contact Kate Koivisto Wheeler: [email protected]

10.01.2022 BeQuest ReVolution continues with new work by Kate Koivisto Wheeler (nail polish on book, nail, pencil on paper, hammer, 2018) RE Beginning with hammering a pin through two books featured in the Stockholm exhibition, "La Place de lÉtoile by Patrick Modiano, and Earthly Paradise by Colette, the process for BeQuest ReVolution involved each sending an exhortation to the other, which led to an action, from which the next exhortation was found. Then came a process of develo...ping artworks from reflections and interpretations of the results. BeQuest ReVolution 16 December 2018 to 14 February 2019 Rikard Fåhraeus & Kate Koivisto Wheeler Peek-a-Boo Gallery, Gotham Studios 57 James Street Northbridge WA http://www.gothamstudios.org/news

10.01.2022 Simon Gilby, 'COVID Kiss', hand-etched glass on resin cast tarmac, 41 x 34 cm, 2020, $900.00. Showing now in 'Beauty Salon' at Peekaboo Gallery, 57 James Street, Northbridge. The early times of the pandemic lockdown let me see moments of beauty in the strange recalibrating of people's priorities toward protection and care of each other, at the same time the dangers of physical intimacy was further extended into the life-threatening category. The paradox of what should have contributed to even greater atomisation weirdly translated into moments of communion and transgression - maybe that is beauty?

09.01.2022 Claire Bushby, 'Morning Spell', coffee and watercolour on Arches paper, size A4, 2020 (images of work in progress), showing now at Peeka-boo Gallery as part of 'Beauty Salon'.

08.01.2022 Carla Adams, Maureen, gouache and acrylic pearls on paper, 30 x 21cm, 2020, NFS. Showing now at part of "Beauty Salon" at Peekaboo Gallery, 57 James Street, Northbridge. This work considers the beautiful objects we choose to live with and have gotten to know more intimately during extended time spent at home. I have been thinking about collections, memories, souvenirs and heirlooms - those that I still have and those that have been lost over the years.... www.carlaadams.net / IG: @carlaadams [email protected] www.carlaadams.net

06.01.2022 Gotham Studios is delighted to present recent drawings and objects by guest exhibitor Gemma Watson at Peekaboo Gallery from January-February 2020, in 'Meshwork'. Watsons works mediate on, inhabit or perpetuate the behaviours and emotions of adolescence, among other things. 'Meshwork' considers colour, flowers, recycled notebooks and interlaced networks of found materials to form a loose map of connections between friendship, Modernist painting, collage and craft processes, nervous doodling, and emotive projection. Image: 'Meshwork' (detail), detail of installation by Gemma Watson at Peekaboo Gallery, Jan-Feb 2020, c/o the artist.

05.01.2022 Upcoming studio vacancies - Gotham Studios will have two visual artist's studio spaces available from 15 September - a small but attractive room on the top floor of our building in central Northbridge, 12.5 square mtr for $257/month (inclusive of rates and wifi) and a larger room on the first floor, 15 square mtr at $278/month (inclusive of rates and wifi). The studios will be allocated via a competitive application process. Please email [email protected] for further information.

05.01.2022 Maxxi Minaxi May, '80s Hair', Washi tape (paper), glue, marker pen and epoxy resin on canvas (cotton), H273mm x W220mm x D27mm, 2020, $350. Showing now in 'Beauty Salon' at Peekaboo gallery, 57 James Street, Northbridge. It was the 80s when my mamma, the Beautician ripped (waxed) the hairs off my legs fair and square! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/maxxi_minaxi_may_artist/... Email: [email protected]

05.01.2022 Showing now at Peekaboo Gallery, 'Petition # 8\10\2020', new works by Gotham Studio artist Magda Joubert. A collection of artefacts representing extinct, native wildflowers of Banksia Woodlands. The work is inspired by a recent petition to save one of the few remaining inner Bushland areas close to Perth airport which are now under threat of yet another land clearing for Commercial Development. The petition was presented to the senate on 8 October 2020. Petition # 8\10\2020 (...detail of installation), balsa wood carved objects, acrylic on board, 92 x 110 cm, 2020 See more

04.01.2022 Luisa Hansal, Most really pretty girls have pretty ugly feet, oil paint on board, 16 x 20, 2020 [SOLD]. Showing now in 'Beauty Salon' at Peekaboo Gallery, 57 James Street, Northbridge. The title of my painting is from a title of a song I love. It makes me think of pretty girls sitting in salons getting pedicures while drinking green smoothies and taking selfies. I can't think of anything more daunting. The thought of someone else touching my feet makes my skin crawl. The... closest thing Ill ever get to a pedicure is standing ankle deep on the shore and letting the water caress my ugly feet. Website: luisahansal.com Instagram: @luisahansal

04.01.2022 Fiona Harman, Strelitzia Reginae in Headlights, oil on board, 14.5 x 20cm, 2020, [SOLD]. Showing now in 'Beauty Salon' at Peekaboo Gallery, 57 James Street, Northbridge. My practice follows an interest in the felt experience of suburbia and moments between the real and imagined. For this painting, the glow of coloured hues seduce, while darkness obscures in a way that invites mystery and the unknown. The use of simplified shapes in the foliage of the Strelitzia allows for ...painterly marks to be felt as fluid and veiled. Facebook https://www.facebook.com/fionaharmanart/ Instagram @fionaharman

03.01.2022 BeQuest ReVolution Rikard Fåhraeus, VO, watercolour on paper (2018) (exhortation: be encompassed by the blue lantern) BeQuest ReVolution... 16 December 2018 to 14 February 2019 Rikard Fåhraeus & Kate Koivisto Wheeler Peek-a-Boo Gallery, Gotham Studios 57 James Street Northbridge WA http://www.gothamstudios.org/news

03.01.2022 Stay tuned: a new body of work arrives in the gallery very soon

02.01.2022 BeQuest ReVolution Kate Koivisto Wheeler, VO (detail), metal key chain, nail polish, oil on board (2018) (exhortation: find...a young star confronting corruption) BeQuest ReVolution... 16 December 2018 to 14 February 2019 Rikard Fåhraeus & Kate Koivisto Wheeler Peek-a-Boo Gallery, Gotham Studios 57 James Street Northbridge WA http://www.gothamstudios.org/news

02.01.2022 24/7 at Peek-a-Boo until 28 February 2019 BeQuest ReVolution Rikard Fåhraeus & Kate Koivisto Wheeler Peek-a-Boo Gallery, Gotham Studios... 57 James Street Northbridge Western Australia See more