Past Exhibitions

Shopfront residency talk with Toni Wilkinson

Image courtesy Toni Wilkinson   Fresh from her Shopfront residency, where she set up a photographic studio, artist Toni Wilkinson will be sharing some of her experience and insights. Come and meet this award-winning artist for a one-off artist talk. Event details Gallery Central 12 Aberdeen Street Friday 15 March 12 -1pm ...

Artist’s talks – Body of Opportunity by Tania Ferrier

A project reassessing ways of seeing and meaning making around women’s bodies.  With Tania Ferrier, Gabriela & Ruby, Gaea Anastas, Dana Stoll, Sascha Turisini, Nikita Dunovits-Ferrier.    Gallery Central is pleased to host the artist and collaborators through these public programs:  Tuesday 6 February – 12 noon to 1pm  Artist talk, with artist Tania Ferrier, costume creative and performer Dana Stoll and Feminist clown and NMTAFE graduate Gaea Anastas, followed by a Q & A.  Saturday 10 February – 12 noon to 4pm  Performance and panel discussion with the artist and collaborators  Performance 1pm | Panel discussion 2pm  Refreshments will be served.                            Image credit: Treena Hopewell   Gallery Central  12 Aberdeen Street, Boorloo/Perth  E:   T: 9427 13 18  Exhibition runs from: 25th January to 16th February  Gallery Hours: weekdays 11am -4.30pm ...

Shine 2024

North Metropolitan TAFE in partnership with Perth Design Week 2024 Gallery Central is pleased to present SHINE, an exhibition celebrating the 2023 graduates from the Creative industries at North Metropolitan TAFE. Following on from the successful 2023 collaboration, the Creative Industries at NTAFE look set to showcase the next generation of creatives through a number of activities at the Perth campus and beyond. Works will be showcased throughout Perth Design Week, featuring new works in graphic design and media, product and building design, fine arts and fashion and textiles. Gallery Central 12 Aberdeen Street, Boorloo/Perth E:  T: 9427 13 18 Gallery Hours: weekdays 11am - 4.30pm Exhibition dates: Friday 23 February to Thursday 21 March 2024.   shine 2024 catalogue...

Studio Shopfront with Toni Wilkinson

Following on from her 2023 publication and exhibition Tough Pleasures Toni will use the Shopfront Gallery on Beaufort St as a working set and photographic studio. Curious photographic encounters that stage sensitive, complex themes of womanhood, will be created through a lavish cast of mostly female subjects; family, friends, loved ones and random strangers from the street. The Shopfront will provide a unique stage and setting to create a significant new series of large-scale photographic work. An artist talk to be announced soon. Dr Toni Wilkinson was born in London and raised in Western Australia. After completing photographic studies at TAFE in the early nineties, Toni spent several years as music photographer for X-Press magazine and contributor to NME, Rolling Stone, Melody Maker and Q before resuming study at university. Her work has featured in multiple exhibitions internationally and throughout Australia and her photographs are held in many significant collections. In 2022 Toni received DGLSC Arts 15k- plus funding to produce her Tough Pleasures publication with essay by Dr Susan Bright. Toni is a member of Art Collective WA and Coordinator of Photography and Illustration in the School of Design and Built Environment, Curtin University, Western Australia. Toni Wilkinson - Artist https://artcollectivewa.com.au/artists/toni-wilkinson/                             SHOPFRONT GALLERY  149 BEAUFORT ST, PERTH 29 January to 27 February TEL: 9427 13 18 | E: ...

Introducing Body of Opportunity by Tania Ferrier

Gallery Central is pleased to welcome Fremantle artist Tania Ferrier to kick off the 2024 exhibition program with her exhibition, Body of Opportunity. Body of Opportunity celebrates the nude female form – a contested subject in both historical and in contemporary environments.Collaborating with a range of artists, performers and activists, Tania Ferrier has re-established the body in ways other than the traditional ‘male gaze’.Through set design, installation, costume creation, photography, video and performance and the moving image, the exhibition Body of Opportunity reassesses ways of seeing and meaning making around women’s bodies. To be opened by Annika Kristensen, Perth Festival 2024 Visual Arts Curator. Exhibition runs 25th January to 16th February 2024. Central Gallery is open weekdays 11am to 4.30pm. [gallery size="full" ids="5957"] Join us for a special weekend session featuring an artist talk and performance, Saturday 10th February 12pm to 4pm. Tania Ferrier Artist   ...

House of Cards

NM TAFE Diploma Graphic Design student's “House of Cards” Fundraiser will feature a multitude of different types of playing cards, conversation cards, recipe cards, gratitude cards and many more available for purchase. Along with the cards will also be stickers, tote bags and prints. Featuring special guest DJ ‘Yikes!’, who’s coming on down to enjoy an epic evening with food and beverages on offer.   10 November 2023 5:00pm — 7:30pm        ...

Variation and Autonomy: The Prints of Contemporary Japanese Painters

  This exhibition introduces the work of ten artists who explored a wide range of possibilities through prints and expanded the range of expression in contemporary art using the print medium in the 1970s.   Rather than focusing on specialists who are considered to have shaped the history of contemporary Japanese prints, the exhibition deals with prints by painters who drew on trends in contemporary art and attempts to reassess the existing history of contemporary Japanese prints.   Curated by: Kyoji Takizawa (Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts)   Exhibiting artists (exhibit order): Masanari Murai, Toshinobu Onosato, Yasukazu Tabuchi, Yayoi Kusama, Natsuyuki Nakanishi, Hitoshi Nakazato, Tomoharu Murakami, Naoyoshi Hikosaka, Kosai Hori and Toeko Tatsuno   Catalogue is available at Gallery Central.   11am - 4.30pm Mon - Fri 13 October - 16 November   Sponsored by The Japan Foundation, Sydney....

Post Art by Clay Bradbury

Clay Bradbury is a visual artist living and working in Perth Western Australia. Painting with oil on wood, his works are predominantly disappearing urban landscapes and ‘object portraiture’. Clay’s work is an expression of his relationship with the city in which he lives. The work explores themes of isolation, functionality, and decay via depictions of common utilitarian objects and infrastructure related landscapes. In this exhibition, Post Art, Clay focuses on anthropomorphism through a collection of nine power poles each with their own character and sense of individuality. 12am - 3pm on view until (inclusive) Thursday 5 October 2023 Shopfront Gallery 149 Beaufort St, Perth ...

Vessel

VESSEL is a perfume launch which casts a light on fragrance as an art form. Four local and national artists have each been assigned a newly-developed fragrance and asked to produce five vessels to house them in. They are each following a distinct brief so that there is unity between perfume, vessel & commercial narrative. Interview with Dimitri Dimitriades on ABC Radio: Perth perfume expert awakens the senses in unique fragrance exhibition - ABC listen 2 - 6 Oct 11am - 4.30pm Kate Rohde completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) at the Victorian College of the Arts in 2001. Since then she has become known for her intensely colourful jewellery and sculptural object-based practice, nowadays working predominately with resin and hand casting techniques. Her work is held in the collections of several institutions including the National Gallery of Victoria, Art Gallery of South Australia and Bendigo Art Gallery. Responding to Dimitri Dimitriades' new perfume URANIUM, Kate explores forms which seemingly buzz and crackle with radioactive emission. Her artistic narrative addresses nuclear catastrophe, and nature's resolute wish to claim everything back.   BISMUTH extrait de parfum: A thousand-coloured jewel resembling ancient alien architecture, Bismuth streaks across the visible spectrum with iridescent fire; like the opalescent flash of Angel feathers, or the crumpled silks worn by a pious saint. Inspired by Byzantine art and Slavic fairytales all resplendent with shining gods and deities, Mira Dimitriadis venerates holy artefacts and divine protagonists from the spiritual pantheon, rendering them in dazzling three dimensions. An Archangel’s orb; a sacrificial lamb; a twisting minaret, all scintillating with polychromatic God-fire. A perfume which fluctuates like a colour-shifting prism, Bismuth darts between the earthbound and the ethereal, boasting perfume materials lifted from every bar of the rainbow. Red cherry, Mandarin, Daffodil, Lime, Iris, Lavender, Benzoin. [video width="1920" height="1080" mp4="https://www.gallerycentral.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Charmine-video-2.mp4"][/video] MANACCANITE Extrait de Parfum Charmaine Ball was Born in South Africa and moved to Australia in 1981. Ball's practice responds to structural elements encountered in the built environment. Architecture and materials – forms, angles, shadows – provide impetus for response. Spanning sculpture and painting, her work is characterised by an exploration of line, shape and colour. Formal geometric composition is paired with an organic approach that imbues a liveliness to abstract pieces. Working with white stoneware clay and mid fire black clay, Ball’s sculptures examine the spatial configuration, weight and tactility of matter. Hand-built sculptures are bisque fired and left chalkily unglazed. Through the manipulation of material the works arrive at an interplay of...