A busy week at Gallery Central preparing for Choi Jeong Hwa’s series of installations for PIAF 2012.
Winthrop Hall, UWA
10 Feb – 3 March, all day

Stirling Gardens
Cnr of Barrack St and St Georges Tce, Perth
10 Feb – 3 March, all day

Gallery Central
10 Feb – 10 March, Mon-Fri 10am-4.45pm; Sat 2-4.45pm

Choi Jeong Hwa Fruits, flowers 2011

P.I.A.F. exhibition
10 FEBRUARY – 10 MARCH
Internationally renowned South Korean contemporary artist and designer Choi Jeong Hwa creates art that celebrates the peculiar beauty of synthetic materials and everyday objects while provoking reflections upon both consumption and harmony in our modern lives. Choi’s ephemeral installation of more than 10 000 balloons at Gallery Central is a complement to his Perth International Arts Festival commissioned public installations. His carnival of colour and plastic mimics and honours the beauty in nature as well as the processes of decay that are part of being alive.
mon to fri 10-4.445 and sat 2-4.45 

A Perth International Arts Festival Event

Mon to Fri 10-4.45 and Sat 2-4.45

RENOVATE BY LYLE BRANSON – FOTOFREO FRINGE
17 MARCH – 5 APRIL
Renovate is a exhibition of photographs that look at the colonising of the Swan River coastal plain, which involves cultivating the landscape with exotic plants and manipulating the native flora and its meaning.

Thur-Fri 2-7pm, Sat 12-4pm

Lyle Branson Untitled, 2011; digital print, 48×32 cm; courtesy the artist

JAPAN: KINGDOM OF CHARACTERS
16 April – 3 May

The exhibition of anime and manga from Japan looks at how these popular characters that have triggered worldwide crazes from 1950s to 2000s. The show features life-sized figures of Hello Kitty, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Mobile Suit Gundam and more, allowing a window into the obsessive phenomenon of Japan’s world of characters. As interest in Japanese subculture becomes increasingly a topic of interest around the world, the Japan Foundation responds and examines the impact of characters from the 1950s until the present day on Japanese society.

The exhibition is touring internationally, proudly presented by The Japan Foundation and here in Perth thanks to the Consulate-General of Japan in Perth.
See http://www.jpf.go.jp/e/culture/exhibit/oversea/traveling/characters.html

Mon to Fri 10-4.45 and Sat 2-4.45 closed Anzac day

SHINE

15 May – 1 JUNE

Central’s Creative Industries encompasses training in Visual Arts and Jewellery, Photography, Fashion, Graphic Design, Design for Industry, Interior Design and Interior Decoration (+ screen and animation). This annual show gives you a taste of the best Graduates of 2011 and is an opportunity to see what they have learnt, or spot an emerging star.

Mon to Fri 10-4.45 and Sat 2-4.45

Nina (Ludwina) Puruntatameri 244x183cm ochre on linen

Where:
Artitja Fine Art
330 SouthTerrace
South Fremantle 

When:
21 October – 6 November 

Hours:
11am – 5pm 

More info:
www.artitja.com.au 

Women From Papulankutja 

Angilyiya Mitchell-Kurngkaarraka (Seven Sisters)

 
Where:
Merenda Gallery
Level 1, 78 High St
Fremantle 

When:
25 September – 25 October 

Hours:
Wednesday – Saturday 10am – 4pm; Sunday 12 – 4pm 

More info:
www.merendagallery.com.au 

  

Yarliyil Artists, Halls Creek   

Biddy Timbinah-Senior Artist at Yarliyil Arts

Where:
Merenda Gallery
Level 1, 78 High St
Fremantle 

When:
25 October – 28 November 

Hours:
Wednesday – Saturday 10am – 4pm; Sunday 12 – 4pm 

More info:
www.merendagallery.com.au 

  

Spinifex Artists + Mowanjum Artists 

Gordon Barunga

   

Tjaduwa woods

Where:
Japingka Gallery
Spinifex Artists @ Gallery 1
Mowanjum Artists– Paintings and Prints @ Gallery 2
47 High St
Fremantle 

When:
23 October – 16 November 

Hours:
Monday – Friday: 10am – 5pm; Saturday: 10am – 5pm; Sunday: 12 – 5pm 

More info:
www.japingka.com.au 

  

Yiwarra Kuju -The Canning Stock Route 

Nola Campbell, from Kayili Artists, with her painting Tika Tika, photo by Tim Acker, 2009., Courtesy FORM Canning Stock Route Project

Where:
Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre 
PCEC, Pavillion 6 
21 Mounts Bay Road 
Perth 

When:
2 – 27 November 

Hours: 

Monday to Friday 10am – 6pm; Saturday 10am to 5pm Sunday 11am – 5pm

More info:

www.canningstockrouteproject.com/yiwarrakuju

Where:
Merenda Gallery
Level 1, 78 High St
Fremantle 

When:
25 September – 25 October 

Hours:
Wednesday – Saturday 10am – 4pm; Sunday 12 – 4pm 

More info:
www.merendagallery.com.au 

KURU ALALA: Eyes Open - Tjanpi Desert Weavers Maria Fernanda Cardoso  Alison Clouston

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tjanpi Desert Weavers Early Days Bush Family 2009 from KURU ALALA: Eyes Open, installed at Blacktown Arts Centre Photo: Johan Palsson

Where: Wanneroo Library and Cultural Centre Gallery, 3 Rocca Way Wanneroo
When: Thursday 20 October – Sunday 20 November 2011
Hours: 10am – 4pm Tuesday-Friday, 12pm – 4pm Saturday and Sunday
More info:  http://kurualala1.wordpress.com/

Kidogo Aboriginal Artists Exhibition – A diverse and extraordinary exhibition of paintings by Aboriginal Artists living in Perth and working out of Kidogo Arthouse on Bathers Beach in Fremantle

Spiny Cheeked Honey Eater by Krocette

Where:
Kidogo Arthouse
Bathers Beach, off Mews Rd
Fremantle
When:
23 Oct– 23 Nov 2011
Hours:
9-5 weekdays ; 10-5 weekends
More info:
www.kidogo.com.au
 

The Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards – the richest Indigenous arts prize in the country, is a national award founded in 2008 to celebrate the breath, diversity and excellence of art from all corners of Indigenous Australia.

 

Gunybi Ganambarr Milngurr 2011, ochre, earth pigment and acrylic binder on rubber, 97.0 x 77.0 cm; Artwork courtesy of the artist and the Buku-Larrnggay Centre, Yirrkala, Northern Territory; Image © Gunybi Ganambarr, courtesy of the artist and the Buku-Larrnggay Centre, Yirrkala, Northern Territory

 Where:
Art Gallery of Western Australia

Perth Cultural Centre, Perth

 

When:

13 August – 19 December 2011

Hours:
10am-5pm Wednesday-Monday. Closed Tuesdays 

More info:
www.artgallery.wa.gov.au

Peggy Griffiths in Association with Warringari Aboriginal Arts

Beazley Knob 2011 Natural ochre on canvas 100 x 140 cm

Where:
Seva Frangos Art

271 Rokeby Rd, Subiaco

 

When:

18 Oct – 10 Nov

Hours:
11am-5pm Tue – Sat; Artist’s Talk 11.30am Tuesday 25 Oct

More info:
www.sevafrangosart.com/

 

Where:
Seva Frangos Art

271 Rokeby Rd, Subiaco

 

Peter Newry

When:

Hours:
10am-5pm Mon-Fri; 11am-4pm Sat

More info:
www.mossensongalleries.com.au/

24 Oct – 12 Nov

Revealed is a showcase of emerging Aboriginal art and artists from across WA.  The exhibition of more than 50 artists will be held in from 24 October to 12 November 2011. 

Revealed 2011 catalogue available for free download Catalogue REVEALED 2011-low.

The highlight will be a bustling marketplace where visitors can buy direct from Centres on Fri 28 Oct (public holiday) and Sat 29 Oct from 12-4pm. Transport is free on those days and their is plenty to do in the city with extended trading hours and the Commonwealth Festival Perth 2011 nearby in the Cultural Centre. http://commonwealthfestival.com/program/peoples-space

The project is part of Commonwealth Festival Perth 2011.

Revealed will be focussed around the art school and Gallery Central at Central Institute of Technology, 12 Aberdeen St, Perth. The inaugural Revealed project was conducted here at Central in 2008. 

Aboriginal artists and managers from the Centres will be in Perth for the exhibition and a two-day Professional Development program, including art workshops through to management practices. In addition, two Aboriginal artsworkers will gain skills and be mentored as part of Revealed. 

Revealed is produced in partnership with the Department of Culture and the Arts and supported by the Department of Indigenous Affairs and the Federal Government through the Office of The Arts.

To receive updates  and invitation: please email gallery@central.wa.edu.au

Free travel is available on the entire Transperth metro network on Friday 28 and Saturday 29 October.
The date of The Queen’s Birthday public holiday for 2011 has been changed from Monday 3 October to Friday 28 October to coincide with the first day of CHOGM 2011.

We have listed other relevant Aboriginal exhibitions on our website: Revealed Related

We also have the catalogue from 2008 Revealed show available for download: Revealed Catalogue.

The Kerry Stokes Collection, Perth, has been collecting Western Australian contemporary art over three decades. Angel Hair focuses on the new wave that began in the early to mid 1990’s and has gained considerable momentum up until the present.  

For the most part, the artists in this exhibition explore the shift that occurred from the art being about private experiences to art that deals with essentially shared social and cultural issues. The works in this exhibition trace such experiences and interactions. 

It was created recently for the Mandurah Performing Arts Centre Gallery drawing on ethereal elements of the Collection in reference to the mysterious substance, Angel Hair, said to emanate from UFOs. What happens when such subversive and impersonal stuff starts falling from the sky right outside your own town? 

Christopher PEASE, Swan River 50 miles up, 2006, oil on canvas, 100 x 143 cm; Courtesy Kerry Stokes Collection, Perth

Gallery Central Manager, Thelma John, was blown away after her visit to Mandurah in May and went straight back to talk to the people at Kerry Stokes Collection about showing the exhibition in Perth.  Now the lucky Perth people can see for themselves. 

On show:  19 Sept to 7 Oct

Weekdays 10-4.45 sat 2-4.45

Featuring Christian de Vietri, Christopher Pease, Constantine Nicholas, Galliano Fardin, Harry Hummerston, James Angus, John Toohey, Julie Wilson-Foster, Lucille Martin, Matthew Hunt, Michael Singe, Michele Theunissen, Patrizia Tonello, Rina Franz, Susanna Castleden, Tarryn Gill and Pilar Marta Dupontmber

GWILYM Faulkner SHELVING UNIT

The works range from intricately-designed one-off furniture pieces to unique lights and clocks, and demonstrate a vast array of design skills, methods and materials exploration. The majority of the pieces were made by the students in CIT’s own workshop.

Three-Dimensional Design Course Coordinator Peter Kitely said having students design with exhibitions in mind tended to result in work that was both highly original and industry-ready.

“Exhibiting in a professional environment to both the public and the furniture industry increases the demand on the students’ creativity,” Mr Kitely said. “We encourage students to design thoughtful and original pieces that are ready for the contemporary market. We’re delighted with how they’ve responded to that challenge and the feedback from industry has been very positive.”

The 3D NOW exhibition follows a successful showing in Melbourne in July, where the CIT students were amongst a select 50 Australian finalists in Vibrant Visions in Design (VIVID).
VIVID is the contemporary section of Furnitex, which is Australia’s largest furniture trade show. In all, over 15,000 people attended the show over four days.

VIVID Curator, Uli Hasel, said this year’s significant CIT representation was testament to the consistently high quality work produced at the institute in recent years. “There were a number of highly original pieces from Western Australia this year, and in general the Perth entries have achieved a very pleasing standard in terms of quality and design content,” Ms Hasel said.

2 – 10 September
Mon-Fri: 10am-4.45pm; Sat: 12-4pm, closed Sunday
Enquiries gallery 9427 1318 gallery@central.wa.edu.au
or Peter Kitely T: 9427 1149 E: peter.kitely@central.wa.edu.au