formerly Central TAFE Art Gallery, part of Central Institute of Technology

 

 

                                     

                                                            

                                                                         

 

 

Gazing at the Contemporary World:

Japanese Photography from the 1970s to the Present 

21 - 30 January

Presented in association with the Japan Foundation, this exhibition of photographs ponders the transformations of

Japanese society, with the growth of cities at the expense of traditional communities.

Hours Mon to Fri 10-4.4.5 and Sat 2-4.45. Closed Australia Day.

 

    

     Photo from the series "SUBWAY LOVE", 1963-72  by Nobuyoshi Araki

 

 

Every year another flock of talented graduates is released from Creative Industries training at Central TAFE.

To celebrate their achievements, a season of graduate exhibitions runs through November and December, both

on-site and off-site. This includes film screenings and fashion parades as well as displays of art, photography and

a number of design areas.

 

Manhandled by Dave Handley

Central TAFE Showcase Gallery 26 Nov - 1 Dec

pottery in motion

 

     The Syndicate by Simon Gilby

     17 October - 14 November 2009

     ten life size sculptures

 

    

 

 

 

 

  

    

 

 

HOLA MOLA

Central TAFE Showcase Gallery

2-14 November

an exhibition of textile art called MOLAS from the remote Cuna people of Colombia and Panama.

Contact Nidia Hansen 0403 421 190 .

 

 

Michael Collins Caricature Award

17-24 October

An annual show of the best Australian caricatures raises money for the heart foundation.

http://www.mccaward.com/home.html

 

 

Obama 2008 by Kindaroo Kim

 

   Young Originals 2009

   14 September  - 10 October

 

    

 

   Now in its 19th year, the Young Originals Exhibition is a showcase of up and coming WA artistic

   talent, featuring an array of outstanding works by the top public school students in Years 8 to 12.

 

 

 ARTiculation

  Central TAFE Showcase Gallery

  Artwork from Reflections Art Studio for Mental Health Week Exhibition

  1 - 8 October

 

 

 Howards Mind by Julian Masters

  Central TAFE Showcase Gallery

 10 - 16 September

 

 

An exhibition of photographs by Julian Masters

 

Perth based photographer Julian Masters has created Howard’s Mind as a document of his wanderings

in the world. What started out being a love for the camera has ended as a social documentary and a

love for the subjects encountered in urban spaces. The images explore both the human condition and the

structure of urban towns.

 

Created over the last 25 years through a range of film and digital mediums, the collection is candid,

displaying insight into and empathy with the lives and environs of the often anonymous subjects.

 

 

 Listening to the Darkness by Kueiju Lin (Taiwan)

  Central TAFE Foyer

  9 - 15 September

 

 

 

 

 STUDIO: Australian Painters Photographed by R Ian Lloyd

  7-29 August

 

 

 

 

 Necromancing by Harry Hummerston

  Central TAFE Showcase Gallery (and Residency)

  14 August - 5 September

 

 

 

 

 

 Fine Art and Jewellery Auction 09

  Fundraising event for graduation students 

  on show 10 - 16 September, hammerdown 6pm Thursday 30 July 2009

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  Surroundings Around by Kaori Yamashita

  Central TAFE Residency Gallery

  SymbioticA Graduate Exhibition

  24-30 July

 

 

 

 

 

   big name no blankets

     Curated by Thelma John with Kay Lawrence, Louise Snook, David Turley,

     Holly Story, Olga Cironis, Fiona Foley, Tomas Hoareau

     looking at the symbolic use of blankets in art

     until 25 July

 

 

   beyond carrolup

     until 25 July

 

 

 

 Indigenous Art from the South-West

  from the collection of Sue and Ian Bernadt

 

  These paintings by Indigenous artists from the South-West speak of a passion for place and

  often have a surreal, spiritual longing for an Arcadian past. The Carrolup style has had

  a profound influence on artists of the region as it so perfectly captures the distinctive natural

  world of southern Western Australia.

 

 

 

 

 

  Guy and Margaret Vinciguerra celebrate the ancient and contemporary butting up against

  each other in Rome, finding beauty in the ordinary and the monumental.

  Guy’s exuberant photographs compliment Margaret’s abstracted paintings. Partners in life

  and art, they share a love of colour and a love of Roma.

 

  On show  8-30 May

 

 

 6 April - 1 May

 SHINE -

Central TAFE Creative Industries recent graduates show

 

 

See 21 of our shiniest stars of Fine Art, Jewellery, Photography, Fashion, Graphic Design,

Design for Industry, Interior Design and Interior Decoration (plus showreels from Screen

and Animation).

 

Open Mon-Fri 10am-4.45pm

Sat 2-4.45pm

 

 

 

 7-28 March 2009

 MHF #13 by Bevan Honey 

 

 The traditional drawing medium provides a central pivot for Honey, and informs his constructions

 and multiples,  whose immaculately delicate surfaces are achieved by painstakingly long application

 processes. Honey’s works  bring together the real and the imagined, employing irony and humour to

 comment on the Australian vernacular.

 

 

 

  blue

   automotive acrylic and wood 2008

 

 

 

 

 

   5 - 8 March

   Women and War Photographic Exhibition
 

   This International Red Cross exhibition provides an insight into how wars and their aftermath continue to

   affect women. Photographs from countries    including Timor-Leste, Afghanistan, Bosnia-Herzegovina and

   Sudan, reveal women's experience of wars through displacement, sexual violence, lack of access to food

   and vital medical care, loss of contact with loved ones, and as detainees and fighters.

 

 

  

   ICRC/Boris Heger. 

   displaced persons camp in Gereida, Sudan

 

   Central TAFE Showcase Gallery

 

  

 

   ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE Tobias Richardson

 

   Our first artist in residence for 2009 in collaboration with ART ANGELS and Turner Galleries.  

   Circumambulation   was exhibited in 2007 at the MCA in Sydney  and consists  ,of multiple paintings

   of the Kabah, an ancient shrine in Mecca in striking red, black and white. 

 

  

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

   SOUL-BIRDS        

 Line drawings by Sri Chinmoy

 

   Sri Chinmoy (1931-2007) was an Indian artist, poet, musician, philosopher and spiritual guide.

   He chose the theme of birds to symbolise the freedom of the soul. His simple and expressive line

   drawings, said Yehudi Menuhin, “transport us men, who would be winged, to the birds, which we have

   tried to emulate.”

  

 

   Central TAFE Showcase Gallery        17-27 February, 2009

   meditation 7-8.30pm FEb 17.19.24.26

   www.srichinmoycentre.org     prabuddha@goldenboat.net

 

 

 

 

  

 

   Plus:

   CHRYSALIS

 An Exhibition of Emerging Jewellery Designers

   Advanced Diploma of Jewellery & Object Design Graduation Show

   11 - 17 December   image  Brigite Rieder

 

  

                                              

 

 

  

 

 

 

   Revealed

 Emerging Artists from Western Australia’s

 Aboriginal Art Centres

 

 

   Some of regional Western Australia's finest emerging Aboriginal artists are set to          

   shine in an event which celebrates the next generation of creative practice     

   from remote and regional areas.

 

   Exhibition 25 October - 15 November

   Participating Art Centres: Kayili Artists, Mangkaja Arts, Martumili Artists, Maruku Arts,      

   Mowanjum Artists, Mungart Boodja, Papulankutja Artists, Roebourne Art Group,    

   Warakurna Artists, Waringarri Arts, Warlayirti Artists, Yaruman Arts, Yinjaa Barni Artists

 

 

   Market Place Saturday 1 November

   HUGE Success!! 600 visitors, loads of direct sales

 

   Participating Art Centres:    Kayili Artists, Mangkaja Arts, Martumili Artists, Maruku Arts,

   Mowanjum Artists, Mungart      Boodja, Papulankutja Artists, Warakurna Artists, Waringarri Arts,

   Yaruman Arts, Tjanpi   Desert Weavers

 

   Presented in partnership with Department of Culture and the Arts and Aboriginal Economic Development at   

   Department Industry and Resources.

 

              

 

   

 

 

 

 

   Michael Collins Caricature Award

   “Australia’s richest caricature award”

   Now in its third year, the awards honor Michael Collins a well known and respected West Australian

   caricature artist. Entries come from around Australia, from amateur and professional artists including

   many past winners of Stanley and Walkley Awards, the Archibald Prize, and Bald Archy’s.

   Awards night is being held on Friday Oct 17   www.mccaward.com

   Contact 9445 1354 - all proceeds going to the Heart Foundation

  

 

 

 

 

   YOUNG ORIGINALS

   15 September to 11 October

   Fresh, exciting, outstanding high school art from public schools presented by the Department of Education

 

   

    Young Originals Catalogue in PDF

 

       

 

 

   

   

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Outside-In

artworks from Reflections Art Studio

 

This exhibition comprises of powerful artwork in a variety of mediums that participants at Reflections

have been working on throughout the year. The     name of the exhibition makes reference to the 'Outsider Art'

movement, also known as Raw Art or Art Brut, which is now recognised world wide as a s   strong art movement

that runs alongside mainstream and professional art.   

 

Outsider Art is that which is done by some people with mental illness and it often spans Naive Art and some

Indigenous and Folk Art. 

 

 

 

 

   

    VERNISAGE

  Linn Knuckey & Olive Lachberg

    An exhibition of Still Life and Figure Drawing in oils, pastels, charcoal and conte. The works exhibited

    portray  light beautifully along with a harmony of colour and composition.

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   Central TAFE Showcase Space

   Exhibition runs from 25 September to 1 October

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital

2008 Biennial Art Award

 

 

15 August - 6 September

 

Celebrating 50 years, the Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital recognises local talent

while building their Art Collection and the winner is .....

Nyarrapyi GIles's painting Warmarungu

Nyarrapyi’s paintings depict a site called ‘Warmarungu’ near Karku, Nyarrapyi’s birthplace. This is where

the ochres are collected for ceremonial use. In the dreaming times many emus went down into the the rockholes

and some took the form of trees. Nyarrapyi Giles paintings depict the ‘emu spirits’ which are released like a wind

when the ochres are dug out of the ground and they take physical form again. Her paintings show the travels of

the emus in the dreaming times and where they stopped at the rockholes for a drink.   Location: 300km west of Uluru, WA.

image courtesy  Courtesy Randell Lane Fine Art, Mt Lawley and Tjarlirli Art

 

 

         

 

 

 

Zen Gardens by Tomomi Inoue

Saturday 23 until Wednesday 27 August

Hours are: 10-5 Saturday, Monday, Tuesday and 10-1 Wednesday

image Zen Garden After Monet (2005) digital print screenprint by Tomomi Inoue

 

 

 

 

 

showcase at corner of Aberdeen & Beaufort

E v o l v i n g

six artisans from the Margaret River Region

David Thomson, Christine Gregory, Gerry Reilly, Max Ball, Steve Pease

and Ian Dowling in FORM’s Designing Futures program,

an intensive development program toward sustainable craft and design practices.

 

s t u n n i n g    glass - silver - ceramics - textiles

images by Gerry Reilly

 

        

 

 

 

1 - 8 August

Hannah Bertram - Artist In Residence

This Melbourne artist creates a sublime carpet from dust. Contact us for the best time to visit

or peek through the window of our shopfront at 149 Beaufort St.

 

 

 

The Big Fundraiser Art Auction

6pm  Wed 6 August on show 5 - 6 August

RAISED LOTS OF MONEY

MANY THANKS TO ALL WHO PARTICIPATED
Start your own collection with a small artwork by your favourite local artist (established and emerging)

at this annual event organised by our graduating Visual Art students.

Central TAFE is proud to be a partner of the City of Perth Winter Arts Festival

 

 

 

 

 

1 - 4 August

ONO - Photo Auction  

6pm Mon 4 August

Showcase Space Gallery

Fundraiser for our upcoming Photo graduates

Central TAFE is proud to be a partner of the City of Perth Winter Arts Festival

 

 

 

 

 

24 - 29 July

Skatedeck

Showcase Space Gallery

The energy and imagination of our Graphic Design students overflows in an exhibition of decorated

skate decks and street art

Central TAFE is proud to be a partner of the City of Perth Winter Arts Festival

 

 

16 - 22 July

Suspended Romance by Adam de Ville

Showcase Space Gallery

 

 

 

 

4 - 18 July     

Mirda

 

Celebrate NAIDOC week with Central TAFE’s outstanding students of Indigenous art.

These emerging artists are names to watch for the future – committed, inspired and ready to share

their stories about WA.

 

Moordjiti Moort (Strong Families) by Gloria Bennell, acrylic on canvas

Courtesy Central TAFE Art Collection

 

 

 

 

7 - 21 June

ART AND ARCHITECTURE

Kumamoto Artpolis:

Architecture through Communication

 

What happens when architects are charged with revitalization of a region through

works of architecture embodying entirely new ideas? Kumamoto Artpolis:

Architecture through Communication documents the creative development

of the built environment of Kumomoto Prefecture, presented in association with

the Japan Foundation.

 

     

 

11-13 June Ikebana classes/display   

 

 

 

 

This time it’s personal

Vinnies launch Winter Appeal 2008 aided by blessings from Arch Bishop Hickey

The St Vincent de Paul Society will attempt to put a human face on homelessness today at the launch of the

2008 Winter Appeal by showcasing an exhibition of photographs taken by those who witness poverty every day in

Western Australia. Every night over 100,000 Australian’s sleep homeless and a quarter of those are children

under the age of 18, providing more reason to highlight their desperate plight as winter begins. Disposable

cameras were sent out to people in need and to those who provide assistance and were asked to capture

a snapshot of their lives and what they witness. The result is a gallery full of eye-opening photographs on display

over the next two days at the Central Design Centre in Northbridge. The St Vincent de Paul Society’s State President

Genevieve De Souza hopes that by showcasing these photographs people will stop seeing the homeless as

a ‘faceless population’ but as someone’s brother, sister, mother, or loved one. "In today’s society, homelessness

doesn’t carry the same connotations as it used to, now the homeless is the family down the road whose rent has

just gone up again and whose pay no longer covers the bills, food and education expenses" she said.

"One in four Australian households is just three pay packets away from homelessness; and currently the Society’s

Call Centre in Belmont is receiving over 500 calls for assistance a week predominantly asking for food, proving

that feeding the family is becoming impossible for many."

The Society’s busiest time is winter and this years appeal aims to raise $600,000 to ensure no one should have to

go hungry or sleep in the cold this winter.

"The Society doesn’t just want to help people in the short term, we work to provide those in need of assistance with

long term solutions through education and support," Genevieve said.

 

Exhibition runs until Friday 6 June from 10am - 3pm at Central TAFE Showcase Space Gallery, 12 Aberdeen St, Perth

 

 

 

 

The State of the West - a ceramic survey 2008

A survey of diverse works made in the last year by WA’s best established, emerging, regional and city based

ceramic artists as selected by The Ceramic Arts Association of WA.

 

Public program of talks, panel discussion, workshops and  demonstrations – download the PDF here.

 

 

 

 

Human Flora by Josephine Pittman

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

EVERY BODY DRAWS SKULLS !

 

Every Body Draws Skulls is an exhibition based on a design cliché such as skulls, and how popular

the image has become. Everyone has their own interpretation on what a skull looks like and this exhibition

is a showcase of this interpretation.

 

Created and curated by the graduating students of Advanced Diploma of Graphic Design, the show is

on to raise funds for the upcoming exhibitions and events, which they will hold, throughout the year.

 

FRIDAY the 23rd and SATURDAY the 24th of May.

 

5 April – 3 May

Focus: Photography & War 1945-2006

From the Collection of the Australian War Memorial – includes the work of official photographers covering the war

for the Australian defence force or the Australian War Memorial, photojournalists representing the media, and soldiers

operating their own cameras in the field.

Featuring the work of 15 Australian  photographers, including official photographers, photojournalists and soldiers:

Alan Cuthbert, Allan Queale, Harold Dunkley, Phillip Hobson, Ian Robertson, Andy Mattay, Denis Gibbons, John Fairley,

Michael Coleridge, Tim Page, David Dare Parker, George Gittoes, Heide Smith, Stephen Dupont and Ben Bohane

 

The Australian War Memorial's Travelling Exhibition program is funded by the Australian Government's Commemorations

program. This exhibition is supported by Visions of Australia, an Australian Government Program supporting touring

exhibitions by providing funding assistance for development and touring of cultural material across Australia.

 

 

David Dare Parker - Australian Peacekeeper Assisting Bombeiros (Firefighters), Dili 2006

 

http://www.fotofreo.com/

 

 

Are you looking at me?

Dee Dee Noonan, Wil Ainger, Jennifer North, Jo Cleland, Melyssa Parker, Tracy Mortimer

Conceptual/Documentary/Portraiture - showcases the work of six emerging photographers

currently at Central TAFE, with each presenting a series of new works showing a cross section

of responses to the theme.

 Venue: The Showcase Space

 

 

Minter Ellison Recent Graduates 2008

 

 

Studies in Art, Design, Media & Digital Content can lead anywhere and this selection of outstanding

Advanced Diploma 2007 Graduates of Central TAFE Creative Industries are names to watch.

The creative and technical focus that they have attained, and their commitment to excel, will be invaluable

in whatever it is that they pursue as a career.

 

These students have been engaged for three years in full-time study with leading contemporary artists,

designers, mentors and technical specialists in our exceptional studio based facilities. Screen, animation,

fine art, photography, fashion and textiles, graphic design, design for industry, interior design and interior

decoration are featured this year.

 

Watch out for these talented graduates as they mark their mark on the visual culture of Perth over

the next few years.

 

This is the fifth year that the Minter Ellison Youth Arts Foundation has sponsored this show of Central TAFE’s

outstanding graduates. The Foundation contributes to the flowering of our local culture through support of

emerging artists, leading the way in new models of corporate sponsorship.  The Perth office of Minter Ellison

Lawyers established the Minter Ellison Youth Arts Foundation to provide support, financial assistance and

encouragement to Western Australia's aspiring young visual and performing artists.

 

 

12 - 21 February

Sands of Peace and Harmony

 

Experience the creation of a sacred sand mandala by 4 Tibetan Buddhist Monks, including morning chanting

meditations. After 9 days of painstaking construction of the intricate pattern from memory (using coloured

marbled sands through brass funnels), the whole artwork is swept up by the Monks and dispatched to the river,

emphasising not the futility of life and art, but the impermanence of existence.

Presented in partnership with TARA, and with support the City of Perth and Office of Multicultural Interests, WA.

 

3pm Tuesday 12 February 2008:

Opening ceremony includes chanting meditation and the pouring of the first sands. Please be punctual.

 

8.30am 13-16 & 18-21 Feb:

Daily chanting meditation - please be punctual.

 

3pm Thursday 21 February:

Closing ceremony includes chanting meditation and sweeping up of the completed artwork,

then off to the river in a convoy!

 

More info: www.phendheling.org

 

    

21 January - 9 February

Old Works by David Turley

 

A series of new works that re-present objects, ephemera and collected oddments found in deceased

estates, roadside collections and second-hand stores. Through items including diary collections, family

holiday slides and letters to loved ones, the works investigate the recording of existence; questioning mortality,

and the traces left behind.

David Turley is a graduate of Edith Cowan University and a Central TAFE Artist In Residence.

 

 

 

 

 

21 January - 2 February

Eucalypts in Focus by Ruth de Vos

 

Contemporary textile art inspired by layers of foliage interspersed with delicate fibrous blossoms  -

these vibrant textiles incorporate traditional patchwork and quilting techniques. de Vos's first solo exhibition

focuses on eucalypts to draw attention to everyday beauty. Situated in the Showcase Space, corner of Aberdeen

and Beaufort St.

 

Open 10.30am - 4pm Mon - Fri   and 12 - 4pm Saturday. Sunday and Public Holiday closed.


 

 

JOIN US FOR OUR ANNUAL CENTRAL TAFE GRADUATION SHOWS

 

 

ART OF OUR MINDS

Central TAFE Showcase Space, cnr Aberdeen & Beaufort St

On view 16-18th Nov

Central TAFE Artlinks - supporting people with disabilities

 

SOUTHERN EXPOSURE

19 October - 10 November

Shining a light on new contemporary art from the South West.

 

Artists: Jean Astbury,   Troy Bennell,   Horatio Birdbath,   Ian Dowling,   Helen Foster,   John Harrison,  

Thomas Heidt,   Catherine Higham,  Dee Mosca,   Steve Pease,   Judith Roche,   Helen Seiver,  

Mary-Lynn Stratton,   Marina Troitsky, and Greg White

 

Our Marys Full of Grace by Jean Astbury

 

Young Originals

17 September - 13 October

The Young Originals is an exhibition of outstanding art works selected from Western Australian public

secondary schools.

There is something on show for everyone: ceramics, graphic design, fashion, photography, painting, prints,

textiles and sculpture.

This is a very popular exhibition with broad appeal to the general public and is very popular with school

groups and for family outings during the October school holidays.

 

Things by Rick Vermey at Shopfront

19 September - 13 October

149 Beaufort St - Wed-Sat 2-6pm or by appointment

Open-studio event, displaying past, present and future projects by Rick Vermey, our Artist-in-Residence

for Artopia.

Rick Vermey's website

 

Hello Stranger

30 June- 22 July

An exhibition about being on the outside looking in, with work by Sue Stevenson, Mark Datodi, Brenda Croft,

Susan Flavell and more.

 

Analysis of Personal Image by Brenda L. Croft from HELLO STRANGER courtesy of Collection - Murdoch University

 

Daek Aerosol at Shopfront

30 June - 2 July

Urban art abstract aerosol styles over the female body

 

Close The Gap

14 - 28 July

Oxfam Australia's campaign to achieve Indigenous health equality.

 

Refresh
TAFE Art Auction

26 July

Annual fundraiser for the Visual Art and Craft Advanced Diploma graduating class. A chance to buy amazing

art treasures from our students and their support network.

The event raised over $28 000 thanks to the efforts of our students and donating artists