Art Gallery of Western Australia

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    Art Gallery of Western Australia
    Perth Cultural Centre 47 James St Mall
    Perth, WA 6000
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The Art Gallery of Western Australia, founded in 1895, occupies a precinct of three heritage buildings on the south-eastern corner of the Perth Cultural Centre.The Gallery houses the State Art Collection, which includes one of the world’s finest collections of Indigenous art, the pre-eminent collection of Western Australian art and design, as well as Australian and International art and design.Through the Collection, our associated programs, and stimulating exhibitions we offer Gallery visitors unique and exciting experiences of historic and contemporary Australian artists, and bring the art of the world to Western Australia.We place particular emphasis on the arts of Australia, and due to our geographic position, the Indian Ocean Rim. Our proximity and access to many of the most exciting cultures of the world adds immeasurably to programs, exhibitions, collections and events at the State Art Gallery.


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Past events

Picturing New York: Photographs from the Museum of Modern Art - Fringe World 2013

13th February

Depicting the iconic New York that captivates the world’s imagination and the idiosyncratic details that define New Yorkers’ sense of home, this...

$19

Shadow Quartet

11th May

Shadow quartet forms an ensemble of four individual sculptures; each one of the figures is actually a cluster of multiple shadow figures with different...

Your Collection 1800 - 1920; Here And There

11th May

There is a lot to discover and the first of our new displays Your Collection 1800 – 1920 is open in the Centenary Galleries (which can be reached down the...

Wonderland Family Activity Space

4th May

Come upstairs and join Karin the Kangaroo to experience this exciting new space designed especially for families visiting the State Art Collection...

Agwa Nights Curator Tours

1st February

Join one of the Gallery’s talented Curators; Lucy Harper, Picturing New York Project Curator, and Robert Cook, Curator of Modern and Contemporary...

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New York, New York: A History in 20 Minutes

22nd March

A humorous and thought-provoking journey through New York history: the people, the place, the culture, the art, the celebrities, the music, the...

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Art Workshops for Kids

24th April

Calling all kids! Get creative with these fun, hands-on art workshops presented in collaboration with the Central Institute of Technology. iPad Comics has...

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Agwa Nights Game-on!

15th February

It’s game night at AGWA! Show-off your Chess or Checkers skills and you could be in the running to win some cool prizes. Registrations open Friday 1...

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The Black Box and the Post Modern City

14th April

Bauhaus Modernists brought a formal purity to the New World which led to the geometric corporate forms of the American city. After the austere geometry of...

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Agwa Nights Talks

8th February

Be stimulated by some fascinating talks on topics inspired by the show’s NYC content including NYC fashion, architecture and inner city trends. AGWA...

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Art Deco: Skyscraper Cities

7th April

Rebuilt after the fire of 1871, Chicago emerged as a towering vertical city. Elevators and water pumps made tall buildings a reality in New York, where...

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Bill Cunningham New York

25th March

In the final instalment of our New York mini-festival, we show you’re the big city through the eyes of one of its legends - NY Times photographer and...

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Street View: Images of the Modern City

24th March

An illustrated presentation of the art of street photography before Google stole all the streets.

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New York Photograms with Dallas Perry

23rd March

Create your own unique photograms in the darkroom using photographic processes. Images of New York will be supplied and you can bring in favourite photos...

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Picturing New York Adult Art Workshops

9th March

Workshops will commence at 10am with a guided tour of AGWA’s latest exhibition Picturing New York. Participants will then be escorted to the Central...

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West Side Story

18th March

This is Romeo and Juliet, told by two rival gangs in the streets of NYC. The classic story of Maria and Tony is played out in song, in all its...

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New York Photography: Gallery 291 and Modernism

17th March

Two giants of early American photography, Stieglitz and Steichen, created classic images of the growing city. By exhibiting European Modernism in New...

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Picture You in New York with Darren Mok

16th March

Use images shot recently on the streets of New York to visualise yourself in amongst it. Access the brilliant tools of Photoshop CS6, the new industry...

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Taxi Driver

11th March

De Niro at his bad-ass best. This time we're exploring the seedy side of New York - the politics, the violence and the taxi cab culture. "I think someone...

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Drawing with Light: Art & Photography

10th March

Light, movement and everyday life were key subjects of 19th century Realism, Impressionism and the new medium of photography. Blending interests in the...

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Photo Panorama, New York to Perth with Chris Schnell

9th March

Extend your creative horizons with the art of ‘stitching’ multiple images of the city using the amazing tools in Photoshop CS6. Retouch, re-compose,...

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Walk-in Tours Made to Remember

21st January

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Walk-in Tours Picturing New York

28th January

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Indigenous Art Sat

2nd February

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The Bureau of Ideas

22nd February

The Bureau of Ideas has held provocative symposiums in cafés and pubs since 2003. Now you can participate in The Bureau of Ideas in AGWA’s Manhattan...

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Luminous World - Contemporary Art From The Wesfarmers Collection

20th October

The Art Gallery of Western Australia is proud to partner with Wesfarmers to present Luminous World - Contemporary Art from the Wesfarmers Collection. The...

Focus on Art from 1960 to 1980

3rd January

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Luminous World Wesfarmers Exhibition

9th January

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Highlights of Indigenous Art

6th January

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Gallery Highlights

5th January

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Arty Canvas: Screen Print Art Work For The Wall

25th January

Students will design a themed layout on their fabric using contact adhesive, we will then screen print over this with a wild range of colours. Once dry...

$60

Colour My World

4th January

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Muddie Buddies: Wheelwork

24th January

This is unique opportunity to try something new together – heaps of fun and tactile experience with a natural material. This workshop is designed as a...

$60

Luminous Drawing: Light & Dark

23rd January

Based on Nigel Milsoms work in the Luminous World exhibition, children will make a simple cardboard puppet and create a setting with black paper. They...

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Terrific T-Shirts: Decorate Your Own T-Shirt

23rd January

Students will design a stencil screen print for their t-shirt, then learn this easy method of printing and applying the finishing touches to their fashion...

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Luminous Painting: Sherbet

21st January

Students will explore colour and colour combinations based on the observation of Gretchen Albrecht’s: Pink and Orange Sherbet Sky 1975 – on show in the...

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Fun Felting

16th January

Students will learn flat felting, a magical process that turns wool fibre into a fabric through the use of water, soap and elbow grease. This is an...

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Picasso to Warhol : Fourteen Modern Masters

16th June

The Gallery announced today that Picasso to Warhol: Twelve Modern Masters is now Picasso to Warhol: Fourteen Modern Masters with the addition of works...

Josh Pyke 'Only Sparrows' Solo Tour

8th November

Josh Pyke is gearing up to play one last run of shows before he heads off into the sunset to write his next album.Josh’s love of performing and hanging...

$49.50

Picasso’s Goldfinch

25th October

Celebrate Picasso’s birthday Thursday 25 October with a special evening where contemporary art and theatre come together. Enjoy an exclusive preview...

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Paul Capsis

11th October

Welcome to the Paul Capsis Revue! Award winning star of stage and screen, Paul Capsis, joined by musical wizard Andrew Patterson, will take you on a...

$49.50

AGWA’s Allsorts Comedy Debates

28th September

AGWA’s Allsorts Comedy Debates are for Allsorts of people with Allsorts of passionate ideas! On two nights, Allstar comedian Dave Callan (Triple J, Rove...

$19

AGWA’s Allsorts Comedy Debates

21st September

AGWA’s Allsorts Comedy Debates are for Allsorts of people with Allsorts of passionate ideas! On two nights, Allstar comedian Dave Callan (Triple J, Rove...

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Jeff Wall Photographs 2012

26th May

Jeff Wall is recognised as one of the most innovative and influential artists working today. Jeff Wall Photographs, this first Australian survey of his...

Jackson Pollock and Abstract Expressionism

2nd September

Mid-century Modernism in America coincided with World War II, the Cold War and the rise of consumer culture, with the Abstract Expressionists emerging as...

$26

Metal Sculpture with Peter Knight

1st September

Create sculptural forms in metal, using ideas or techniques derived from Calder’s work exhibited in Picasso to Warhol: Fourteen Modern Masters. Saturday 1...

$196

Neo-Dada: Jasper Johns + Robert Rauschenberg

26th August

Rauschenberg once said that he wanted to “work in the gap between art and life”. Both he and Jasper Johns worked with everyday objects, materials or...

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Metal Sculpture with Peter Knight

25th August

Create sculptural forms in metal, using ideas or techniques derived from Calder’s work exhibited in Picasso to Warhol: Fourteen Modern Masters. Saturday...

$196

Pop Culture + Pop Art

19th August

Pop on both sides of the Atlantic created a new mix of art tradition and popular culture. This now-legendary blend of ‘high’ and ‘low’ blurred...

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Social Comment with Dallas Perry

18th August

Romare Bearden was best known for his richly textured collages. Create a collage of your life using recycled or found materials, including photos of...

$106

New Forms: Sculpture and Modernism

12th August

The traditions of sculpture splintered into a myriad of “isms” during the first half of the 20th C. The dramatic social, economic and political upheaval...

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Biomorphic Clay with Andrea Vinkovic

11th August

Work with bold shapes and intense colours to create free compositions full of movement and energy. Participants will be inspired by works in our latest...

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Collabor Art Design: The Modernist Object

5th August

Shifts in Modernism emerged from ideas in architecture and product design, as well as from visual art, and in many cases were as directly implicated in...

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Contemporary Indigenous Art

1st June

Three Dimension works in the State Art Collection

7th June

Artworks in Wood

4th June

Galliano Fardin

1st June

Jeff Wall Opening Night Party

25th May

Your Collection 1980 - Today; Expanding Fields

11th May

The final section, Your Collection 1980 – today completes the Gallery’s chronological displays. Presenting a varied array of abstract and figurative...

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Kids are you feeling creative? Be a Mini Modernist

11th May

Our State Art Collection display Your Collection 1920 – 1960 features a drawing table for both children and adults. When you visit this display you can...

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Your Collection 1960 - 1980: Anything Goes

11th May

Your Collection 1960–1980, brings together a diverse range of Western Australian, national and international art mirroring the period’s eclecticism. The...

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Your Collection 1920 - 1960; Many Modernisms

11th May

Your Collection 1920 – 1960 presents a rich array of Australian and international works from the modern period after World War I. Many of the paintings,...

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Year 12 Perspectives 2011 2012

16th January

Year 12 Perspectives is your yearly taste of art by the best, brightest and most talented graduating high school artists in the State. An annual barometer...

Year 12 Perspectives 2011

4th February

Year 12 Perspectives is your yearly taste of art by the best, brightest and most talented graduating high school artists in the State. An annual barometer...

Tom Malone Prize 2003 – 2012 & Translucence: contemporary glass 2012

18th January

This year the Art Gallery of Western Australia celebrates 10 years of the Tom Malone Prize. The prize has strengthened the Gallery’s engagement with the...

Tom Malone Prize 2003 – 2012

17th December

This year the Art Gallery of Western Australia celebrates 10 years of the Tom Malone Prize. The prize has strengthened the Gallery’s engagement with the...

Vast : North-West Landscapes

26th October

The opening up of northern Western Australia to mining exploration in the 1960s also opened up this terrain to artists – both literally by providing...

Princely Treasures : European Masterpieces

24th September

The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, has one of the greatest collections of European decorative art of the 17th and 18th centuries, from the miniature...

Kinky Friedman (USA) & Van Dyke Parks (USA) Australian Tour

30th June

Mobile Industries and Troy Horse are proud to announce the double bill tour of two of the USA's songwriting legends Kinky Friedman and Van Dyke Parks who...

Clare Bowditch

5th August

She’s made three critically acclaimed albums, won the ARIA for Best Female Artist and enraptured fans with her powerful lyrics, fabulous instrumentation...

Lior

8th July

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Katy Steele (Little Birdy) Solo Tour

27th May

KATY STEELE has announced she will head home for the first time since moving to her newly adopted city of New York for a few intimate performances...

$37.50