Upcoming Exhibitions

8 – 27 JuneMARK PARFITT – OverhouseAn examination of the home as a site for sculpture. Combining DIY construction, audience participation and the artist’s own house, the project contribute to a conversations seeking new understandings of homemaking beyond the expectations of ordinary living in the suburbs of Perth. It’s a wonderful body of work and can be viewed to some extent through the windows during daylight hours. There is a catalogue with an excellent essay by David Attwood. an

6 – 25 JulyTAMI XIANG – PeasantographyXiang is a Perth based Chinese-Australian artist and photography graduate of NMTAFE now undertaking a PhD at UWA. The exhibition brings together conceptual documentary works that look at conditions for Chinese families in the countryside. 61 million ‘Left Behind Children’ are raised by their grandparents or great grandparents while their own parents work in cities sometimes thousands of miles away. Most of these children only see their parents on

22 MAY – 13  JUNE   In this show of high-achieving graduates of yesteryear, Miik Green presents a set of large 3D wall works using triangulation and prism shapes that fit seamlessly together alongside geometric jewellery by Alister Yiap and Bethamy Linton, ceramics by legend Pippin Drysdale, Kathy Allam’s faceted plastic constructions made with recycled water bottles and more art-bits that demonstrate that the whole is by far greater than the sum of the parts.