Artist in Residence program

2024

 

In partnership with PICA – Yinga Chen : 22 February – 17 March 2024

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We are excited to announce that our artist residency space will be hosting Taiwanese artist Yinga Chen (@chillga_) for the next eight weeks, as part of our ongoing partnership with the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (@pica_perth).

Chen will be further developing his project Eternal Journey of the Digital Soul, utilising speculative inquiry to explore the intersections of reality and virtuality, traditional culture and future technology, and the realms of craft art and artificial intelligence.

Images: Works from Ohh! My Earth! series, Yinga Chen, 2023

#gallerycentral #nmtafe #yingacheng #contemporaryart

https://yinga.cargo.site/About

 

2023

 

Amy (Kuan Lian) Lee : 23 August – 24 September 2023

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Gallery and Programs Team were pleased to be hosting Taiwanese artist Kuan Lian Lee at North Metropolitan TAFE, as part of our 2023 residency program.

Kuan Lian Lee is a Taiwanese artist currently based in Thailand. Her practise centres on the use of traditional Chinese ink painting and installation. The proximities and distances observed in our contemporary ways of living, including AI and humanity, social transformations, and inequity are focus areas for Lee.

Lee has exhibited widely, most recently with a solo show at the International Museum of America, San Fransisco, ACCA Gallery Beverley Hills, the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, the National Art Centre Tokyo, Long Meng Art Gallery Beijing, amongst others. She was awarded the gold award for her work “Who am I” at the China-Japan International Art Exchange Exhibition held at the National Art Centre Tokyo.

Lee utilised Gallery Central as her working space, from 4 to 23 September.

Works were developed in response to her time in Western Australia, with each work adding to a suite of images in the gallery space during the residency period.

A celebration and viewing of the works created during this residency were taken place on Wednesday, 20th September 3-5pm.

Artist Floor Talk and Q&A: 8 September 2023, 12noon to 1pm.

 

In aprtnership with PICA  – Moses Tan : 26 Jun to 21 August 2023

Moses Tan (b. 1986, Singapore) is a Singapore-based artist whose work explores histories that intersect with queer theory and politics while looking at melancholia and shame as points of departure. In more recent works, he has gone on to surveying botanical forms with an interest in inhumanisms and the abstract body. Working with sculpture, drawing, video and installation, his interest lies in the use of subtlety and codes as allegories and visual cues. He graduated from LASALLE College of the Arts with a BA(Hons) in Fine Arts and a BA(Hons) in Chemistry and Biological Chemistry from Nanyang Technological University.

He was awarded the Noise Singapore Award for Art and Design in 2014, Winston Oh Travel Research Grant in 2016, and the LASALLE Award for Academic Excellence in 2016. He has shown in Yavuz Gallery (SG), Grey Projects (SG), Hidden Space (HK), 1A Space (HK), Indiana University (US), Sabanci University (TR), Kunst Im Dialog (DE), and at 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art (SYD) and also completed a residency in Santa Fe Art Institute (US).

He currently programs and runs starch.sg, an artist-run space in Singapore.


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hatched: National Graduate Show:  2023  9 May – 19 Jun 2023
Jayda Wilson, University of South Australia

Alexandra Peters, Monash University

Charles Levi

Hatched: National Graduate Show 2023 – PICA

 

Lynn Nixon : 24 April – 8 May 2023

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Temenuga Hristova : 18 March – 23 April 2023

Temenuga is a visual artist from Shumen, Bulgaria, who works in the fields of painting, printmaking and art education.
She had more than 100 participations in International juried exhibitions in Bulgaria, Macedonia, Romania, Hungary, Turkey, Czech Republic, Italy, France, Armenia, Lithuania, Russia, Egypt, Morocco, China, USA, Canada, Australia (Umbrella), Argentina and Mexico.
Temenuga is a Jury Member of different national and international art competitions for children and young people including Ukraine (“Stamp of friendship”), India (Picasso Art Contest), India ( Assam Valley School competitions), active art educator, conducting art workshops and classes around the Globe-Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine, France, Morocco, etc.

She stayed at our Residency in March and April and has conducted workshops with NMTAFE Visual Art students.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In partnership with PICA – Yen Tzu Chang 16 January – 12 March 2023

In 2023 we had several artists so far staying at our Residency as part of an exchange with PICA Gallery. Yen Tzu Chang is a new media artist/ sound artist based in Taiwan.

She holds a bachelor’s degree from the New Media Art Department of the Taipei National University of Art. In 2018, she graduated with a master’s degree from the Interface Culture Department of the Kunstuniversität Linz in Austria. For Yen Tzu Chang, artistic creation is exploring the essence of life with philosophy and science thinking. She combines art, programming, and technical media into her artworks, including interdisciplinary art and experimental performances based on sound installations.

Ready-made objects and DIY techniques are included in some of her pieces. The most important thing in her pieces is the concept of play, which refers to the interactivity and the transformation of the roles of participants. She has delivered sound art performances/exhibitions and exhibited her works in many international conferences and festivals, including Ars Electronica Festival, roBOt 08 Festival, Linux Audio Conference, International Symposium on Electronic Arts, Digital Design Weekend in London, Most Wanted: Music in Berlin, etc.

 

 

Vicki Ames and David Carson : 8 February to 2 April 2022

In March 2022 Vicki Ames and David Carson presented their exhibition ABOUT TIME at Gallery Central to celebrate working and exhibiting in Western Australia over the last 26 years, as they felt it was ‘about time’ they had a joint show.

The title About Time also referenced a common thread running through their work; they are both concerned with mutability, that is, the changes brought about by the passage of time.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

They will be in residence from 2exploring the immediate locality around Beaufort Street.

Vicki is interested in the distortions and changes in objects and places, specifically worn, discoloured and broken surface areas. Dave is fascinated with places and events experienced over extended periods of time, using time lapse photography and 360º video- metamorphosed into art works, as prints and moving image sequences.

Both artists produce work that is abstract but located in experiences of particular places and phenomena.

David Carson examines natural phenomena & events through digital media, such as 360º video capture. He has toured exhibitions extensively in Australia and internationally, collaborating with artists, musicians and scientists. His work explores temporal relationships in sound and vision.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

North Metropolitan TAFE Art and Design school through the Gallery programs has been hosting Swiss artist Regula Michell at the Shopfront Gallery.

Regula has been utilising the space to develop her work in response to local materials found during her travels, which range from cardboard and plastic packaging to paper, bark and gumnuts.

Regula Michell is an artist based in Zurich, Switzerland.

Having worked as a laboratory technician, handicraft teacher and educator, Michell has since developed her arts practise with a focus on the radical transformation of spaces and places. Based on concepts of duration and change, private and public, remembering and forgetting and utilising mostly found objects Michell creates temporary installations ranging in scale from small, laboratory-like models to site specific installation responses. The materiality, history and character of the works form a significant part of a multistage process.

For more information on her process visit www.regulamichell.ch/

Michell has also been the initiator of many collaborative art projects, involving group interventions in public spaces and social contexts.

At the core of this collaborative artistic practise is an examination of social behaviour, involving actions that depart from conventional practise of social interaction and which question typical behavioural patterns in a playful way. Participants move from the experience of viewer to active contributor. Projects such as “Nice to meet you”, “Human Touch”, “Fountains” and the “Museum of Accomplices and Collaborators” involve socially engaged and context specific approaches to situations, places, and people.

Michell’s collaborative projects can be found at www.haekelobjekt.ch/ www.kunsthausaussersihl/ www.mitimnetz.ch

 

 

 

2022

SPIRAL WORKS BY GREG MOLLOY

26 – 31 July  Shopfront Gallery 149 Beaufort St

When I began making this mono type series of prints, Spiral works Vol.1, it was during the beginning of Covid-19 lockdowns in early April 2020. Initially I had intentions to create a series of prints over the course of a semester at Curtin university when I acquired the roll of 300gsm paper needed to pursue the series. Before the lockdowns became more serious I pushed to create the series within a two-week period at Curtin’s print making facilities. Students had already evacuated the entire Art department at this point so in that isolation this series emerged.

This series was made with the assistance of a custom purpose-built etching machine which resembles a distorted looking record turntable to specifically make this series. I wanted to play with the idea of attempting an endless series of work that takes ghost printing to an extreme level. The plates on which this series is made from are never cleaned, so there is a constant build-up of ink layers of its predecessors coming through as fragmented echoes of faded colour and in some cases multilayered ink skin scabs that latch onto the print to reveal the first print markings. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

10 – 17 June 2022 Shopfront Gallery

AERIAL LANDSCAPES OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA & VAPORWAVE PORTRAITS BY WAYNE WAPLES

A series of photographs by Content Creator Wayne Waples.

He will have on display Aerial Landscapes and his collection of Vaporwave Portraits.

The images are to be sold by NFT (Non-fungible token) and physical prints available from www.WayneWaples.com

 

LANDING

19 – 29 May 2022 Shopfront Gallery 149 Beaufort St

Two artists fell into space – LANDING – a duo exhibition between Germany, Australia and Poland.
Australian painter Simon Sieradzki and Polish-German mixed media artist Janne Steinhardt debut their collaboration in a duo show amongst their current artworks. Artistically their works embody questions like: What is rhythm in painting, what is rhythm in life, what rhythms do you follow, when the world’s rhythm changes and – how may rhythm enable safe landing?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PHILIP SHADBOLT’S – THE SHADOW & THE LIGHT

23-26 April 2022

Shopfront Gallery, 149 Beaufort Street

This exhibit is the showcase finale from his Artist in Residence program with North Metropolitan TAFE. On view will be a selection of his new and recent digital works on canvas and paper, curated by Ish Marrington. Displayed in gilded frames, his otherworldly avatars shimmer with light and luxuriate in vivid colours and celestial details. Created in the time of the pandemic, this new body of work aims to be a visual antidote in these challenging times. Emboldened with hope and love at the heart of everything, Shadbolt sets out to create his very own sensual utopia.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

14 to 27 March 2022 at Shopfront Gallery, 149 Beaufort St

Ideas into Form: painting, photography and textiles

Artists: Digby de Bruin, Lyn Mazzilli, Rosemary Wallace and Clayton Ward

This exhibition is a collaboration by four artists engaged in the exploration of ideas drawn from the natural environment.

Clayton Ward - Möðrudalur 1155

Clayton Ward – Möðrudalur 1155

Lyn Mazzilli - Conversations

Lyn Mazzilli – Conversations

Digby de Bruin - Storm Over Tunturi

Digby de Bruin – Storm Over Tunturi

Rosemary Wallace - The Blue Moment, Lapland

Rosemary Wallace – The Blue Moment, Lapland

 

 

 

 

25 Feb – 19 March

ANNETTE PETERSON

Local artist Annette Peterson stayed at the Residency during her solo exhibition at gallery Central and developed new works.

Blurb for her exhibition: Award-winning artist Annette Peterson takes you on a journey through your local suburb and beyond as in a painting itself. Through the Streets & Other Adventures investigates the everyday suburban drive, as a painted version of the moving image from a passenger’s point of view.

There are over 280 paintings as part of the exhibition that make up four stop-motion films. Each film emulates a “Live” option from an Apple iOS smartphone, where individual paintings replace the digital film stills to create a painted rendition of reality.

2021

PATAGRAPH\PATAGRAM BY HIROSHI KOBAYASHI

10 -15 Dec

NMTAFE Shopfront at 149 Beaufort St, Northbridge

 

NMTAFE and former PICA artist-in-residence Hiroshi Kobayashi has been scanning readymade and handmade toys in his 3D photobooth for this project, before being painted using his unique Patagraph paint delivery method.

He explains: My practice investigates the idea of time/duration and the perception of depth in painting based on digitised photographic images. The invention and design of my own production equipment form an essential part in the creation of my visual forms. Combining a cutting plotter with a pneumatic (pressurized air) dispenser and needle, I mark out vectorized (computerized) paths for the painting of dots onto canvas. I refer to this unique method as Patagraphy.

Hiroshi permanently migrated to Perth from Japan in 2016. He was awarded the Distinguished Talent Visa. He has an international training and practice having exhibited in Taipei, Seoul, New York, Tokyo, Washington D.C. and Beijing.

 

Weblink: HЯSK – Patagraph Patagram (hrsk.com.au)

 

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.

This project is supported by the State Government through the Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries.

April: Rebecca Jensen and Sophie La Maitre

Web RJ:    https://bit.ly/35RdR5s                              www.sophielamaitre.com

ECU graduates Jensen and La Maitre have collaborated over time, most recently in a 2020 Curtin Fine Art Residency, where they produced an edition of 10 artists books compiled of etchings, drypoints, collagraphs and hand set text. They also produced lithograph editions of 20 in Curtin’s lithography studio.

Rebecca Jensen’s practice is multidisciplinary and often employs text, using language to explore the everyday through humorous & often cynical haikus. In its more serious iterations her work investigates social phenomenon in both the Australian and Chinese contexts.

Her work incorporates slow processes such as traditional handset letterpress and makes use of analogue modes of production in direct contrast to the immediacy of the digital age.

In 2016 Jensen was awarded an Australian Government New Colombo Grant to participate in overseas study and concluded an eight-month research project on Shanghai’s Blind Date Corner culminating in her second solo exhibition Heaven Won’t Throw You a Meat Pie 天上不会掉馅饼

La Maitre’s multidisciplinary practice finds inspiration in the overlooked elements of our surroundings: the tiny ecosystems under rocks, abandoned yards, or industrial zones. Through observation and documentation of these patient realities, La Maitre creates an archive of source material that is reflected through colours, forms, and abstracted compositions. These elements then take root in the form of paintings, drawings, and print.

Their intention is to further develop their lithography and letterpress combined with ceramics.

 “Through the marriage of ceramics, printmaking and haiku, we aim to develop a body of work which ruminates on the current state of the mundane, as both keenly present and simultaneously evasive. We are interested in turning our attention inward toward the mundane within domestic spaces for this residency.

 

March: Canberra based artist Elizabeth Kelly

Elizabeth Kelly is the lead artist in on REvolution (March 2-26)  at TAFE’s Gallery Central, an exhibition that heroes salvaged materials and poses the question, “Can artists be sustainable?”.

She is an invited artist at Sculpture By The Sea, Cottesloe from 5 March after a dash by road from east to west coast skirting Covid hotspots and border closures.

Kelly has an MA in Visual Arts (1997) from Sydney College of the Arts and was Head of Glass workshop at the Jam Factory Adelaide before setting up Studio Tangerine in Canberra – a glass design and sculpture studio.

For ON revolution, she focusses entirely on sculpture using salvaged materials, such as off-cuts of brass sheeting or Corian, usually a benchtop surface. Liz challenges other artists to embrace found and upcycled materials, asking “what can we do to minimise the environmental impact of the artwork we make or consume?” in a stand against the habits of plastic waste, fossil fuel dependence and pollution.

E Kelly, The Evolute, Salvaged copper, brass, Corian on aluminium, 2021

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

February: Dr Leonie Ngahuia Mansbridge

Leonie Is a NMTAFE grad (2003) who went on to obtain a PhD. Her research and artwork are born from her experience as Māori, living a life of being colonised through assimilation. She engages with postcolonial dialogues around wider social political concerns.

Leonie Ngahuia Mansbridge, Portrait of Rewi, Reputation Cloak and Rangatiratanga Cloak, 2017, Blankets, cotton thread, feathers, found objects and metals.

2020

Ian Strange

Ned Reilly and Chloe Clements

Reegan Jackson

Leonie Hillz

Eric c

2019

Nov 19 –  Our final art angels Helen Britton and David Bielander

http://www.turnergalleries.com.au/exhibitions/19_britton.php#.Xj0ZMjJLiUk

a great way to end a long term collab with Turner Galleries

Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts and NMTAFE continue this year to collaborate to provide better opportunities for visiting artists with a studio at PICA and a home at TAFE. Everyone wins!

Just ask:

Alana Hunt with PICA

Simon Pericich with PICA

Dennis Golding for Hatched with PICA

Anita Cummins for Hatched with PICA

Jennifer Goodman with Turner Galleries Art Angels

Nicole Monks with Sculpture By the Sea

Kate McIntosh with Festival of Perth and the amazing Worktable experience.  Image of reconstructed clock c K Mackintosh

2018

Drew Pettifer November December in collaboration with PICA

Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts and NMTAFE have got together to provide better opportunities for visiting artists with a studio at PICA and a home at TAFE.

Dr Drew Pettifer is our first artist. Drew is an artist and academic who currently lectures in Art History and Theory and the Honours Program at RMIT University. Drew’s art practice explores themes of intimacy, gender, sexuality and the politics of desire using photography, video, installation and performance. His doctorate in Fine Art (Photography) focused on contemporary representations of masculinity and the queer gaze. Drew hosts the contemporary art podcast FIELD WORK and works from time to time as an independent curator and writer.
Raising the Zeewijk  is the working title for his project is based on the shipwreck of the Dutch ship the Zeewijk off the coast of Geraldton on Gun Island in 1727. While they were marooned on the island, two young Dutch men aged 18 and 23 were sentenced to death for sodomy in one of the first judicial acts on Australian soil. The captain formed a jury of the ship’s mates and sat as the judge hearing the case. To carry out the sentence the two young men were left on two nearby deserted islands without rations to die.
Drew will be furthering his research into this early queer historical narrative spending some time in local archives, interviewing experts of local shipwrecks, law and queer histories, visiting Geraldton and  Gun Island to produce photographs, video and audio recordings.
He has an exhibition at the Geraldton Regional Art Gallery in 2019. It is anticipated that these exhibitions will use photography, video, sound and installation in an archival mode of exhibition display.

Inner Artists, CECAT from Graylands celebrates 30 years with a big inclusive bash. View 15-21 Nov

October  Bonnie Lane – osculating between Perth, Melbourne and USA this year, Bonnie has camped over with us while making art from the kitchen table and bedroom. Catch her performance at Paper Mountain for Fringe 2019 – How to be a Better Man in 2019 – a lesson in gender relations.

2 students shows rocked the space- Diplomas and Certificate students used the space to learn how to present their works in a coherent exhibition.

Eric Schneider solo exhibition in October by our Product Design Lecturer tested out some art theories

DANI MARTI     15 October – 12 November 2018 Turner Galleries Art Angel

Marti combines video and textiles to create portraits which reflect upon encounters with family, lovers and strangers. His works raise poignant questions about sexuality, intimacy, the efficacy of relationships and the sharing stories. Each work constitutes an intimate portrait of an encounter, challenging conventions around portraiture and making reference to portraiture & sexuality in Modernism, Minimalism & Geometric Abstraction.

Oscillating between hopefulness and failure, Dani Marti’s work is hinged to a representational paradox. For on the one hand it presupposes belief in the act of portrayal, and on the other hand it tacitly admits portraiture’s inevitable failure to accurately capture.

Since 1998, Marti has held over 30 solo exhibitions including Black Sun at Fremantle for Perth Festival (2016), Adelaide Biennial  (2014); Marti also creates public art works.

www.danimarti.com

30 AUGUST – 27 SEPT
Charlotte Bergmann from Denmark
http://www.charlottebergmannjohansen.dk/Somanden-The-Mariner


Danish artist Charlotte Bergmann Johansen will continue work on her Sømanden /The Mariner alter ego inspired by the poem “The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner”  by ST Coleridge and by tales of her father’s seamanship in the 1950s and 60s.The Mariner represents freedom, courage, escape, adventure, and longing.In 2017 The Mariner embarked on the journey “Langfart” to the remote island Tristan Da Cunha in the South Atlantic Ocean for a two month long performance. Tristan is the remotest island in the world that is still inhabited.
She says, To run away to the sea presents an opportunity to escape from rules and expectations on shore – at sea you relate to  other written and unwritten codes. At sea you are governed by the wind and the ocean. The ocean can wipe away the past and you can choose to change, deny, repress, and tone down your origin, your sexuality, and your gender.

Charlotte presented her work at Sculpture by the Sea in Cottesloe in 2016.

AUGUST 13 – 25
Creative Connections: Artists with disabilities & poets working together facilitated by NULSEN

RICHARD GIBLETT – Turner Galleries Art Angel JULY 2018


Richard Giblett’s artwork imagery is concerned with systems, networks and the visual appearance of built environments and the connections that occur within these phenomena.  He creates artworks using a range of methods that involve detailed model making to spray painted works on glass, meticulously hand painted large scale gouache paintings and collage on paper. Formerly a West Australian artist with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) from Curtin University in Perth, Richard spent the last decade in Melbourne. A fine man and a talented artist Richard passed away in 2018 after a long illness. he is sadly missed but we are glad we got to connect with him one last time. www.richardgiblett.com

In 2018 we continue our Artist in Residency relationship with Turner Galleries Art Angels. Their innovative Artist in Residence Programme, designed to provide practical support to artists in Australia, provides financial support to artists and builds artistic networks between Perth and the rest of the art world.

31 July – 23 AUG 2018
Yao Jui-Chung
TAIWAN artistic and curator

exchange in collaboration with PICA and Turner.

full program is here: https://rexptp.com/participants/

20-22 JULY Drew Armstrong, Elsie Lapelerie and Paul Hardie
Searching for the Spot – a show in the shopfront by our Lecturer Drew Armstrong and his very talented buddies.

10  – 23 April
Yuthika Addina from Indonesia (image to the right)
https://yuthikaaddina.wordpress.com/

25 April – 1 May
DIRECTOR CHU: Changu Museum
TAIWAN artistic and curatorial exchange in collaboration with PICA and Turner Galleries

12 May – 17 June
PICA Hatched artist
Kate Bohunnis from South Australia

JUNE 18 – 29
WAFTA in the shopfront
WA Fibre Textiles Association artists take up residence – Liz Arnold, Marie Mitchell and Jennie Abbott
Lunchtime talks with soup on Thursdays or pop in any old time



12 March – 9 April 2018 Angela Valamanesh plus Hossein Valamanesh Turner Galleries’ Art Angel 

Primarily known for her ceramic works, Angela Valamanesh also makes works on paper and mixed media. Her recent works consist of simple forms that often make links between plant, human and animal. She is interested in imagery that is ambiguous, that has a certain familiarity to but is not completely or easily recognisable.For Angela Valamanesh, the natural world is a source of seemingly endless fascination. Inspired by the great diversity of forms found within nature, as well as the underlying similarities and patterns that emerge from their careful study, she creates work that offers a uniquely poetic insight into aspects of the surrounding world.Valamanesh holds a PhD from the University of South Australia (2012). Angela also works occasionally in collaboration with her partner Hossein on large public art projects such as Adelaide Botanic Garden’s Ginkgo Gate and occasionally on studio based works.http://gagprojects.com/index.php/artists/angela-valamanesh/


BANJAWARN by CHRISTOPHER CHARLES Jan/Feb 2018
Presented in association with Perth Festival

Christopher stayed with us mid Jan to early March and showed in Gallery Central:  9 Feb – 3 March

Charles delves into the mystery surrounding the activities of the Japanese doomsday-cult group Aum Shinrikyo at Banjawarn station, WA, incorporating found propaganda such as animated cartoons & recruitment videos, alongside a display of artefacts from the site and hand-made photographs, presenting a chilling yet fascinating expedition into the mythology of a cult.

2017  Residencies and exhibitions
Martine Perret stayed with us in February to prepare her wonderful exhibition for our main gallery –  Ngala Wongga – cultural significance of languages in the Goldfields – an immersive and multi-sensorial installation of sound and image drawing attention to the need to preserve at-risk Indigenous languages in the Goldfields of WA

Anne Zahalka is one of Australia’s most highly regarded photo-media artists, having exhibited extensively 30 years. Her work has often explored cultural stereotyping – she deconstructs familiar images and re-presents them to allow other figures and stories to be told that reflect on cultural diversity, gender and difference within Australian society. The images from her exhibition wild life depict dioramas from the American Natural History Museum with contemporary elements introduced digitally to disrupt these preserved pristine worlds.While in Perth, Zahalka started to gather images and memories related to the photographs commonly taken in the CBD by street photographers thru the early and mid-20th century. Turner Galleries’ Art Angel

Neil Emmerson, a NZ based Australian artist, travelled from Dunedin School of Art at Otago Polytechnic to prepare and install his exhibition Flight in our gallery. Emmerson’s printmaking engages with the expanded field of sculptural and installation. His subject matter is political with a critical focus directed towards aspects of contemporary life. Flight was our best show of 2017!!  Neil stayed 20 April – 6 May.

Brendan Van Hek and Consuelo Cavaniglia stayed with us 19 June – 13 JulyVan Hek is Turner Galleries’ Art Angel while Cavaniglia tests our perception of space with new works using light and plastics in her own Turner show. Both participate in the City of Perth Winter Arts Season with commissioned interven­tions into CBD public spaces – empty shops in Plaza and Piccadilly Arcade

Elaine Reynolds stayed 17-31 JulyReynolds, PICA artist in residence from the UK is in Perth to develop work spanning moving image, historical photographic processes and sculptural installation from research that examines cycles of migration from Ireland to WA, as well as the impact of the extractive industries in the region.1-30 September Erica Huang Taipei Curatorial exchange, Turner Galleries

2-15 Oct Lucas Grogan showing with art angels, Turner GalleriesThen we have PICA artist Clare Milledge.

Jaana Lönnroos stopped in from Finland. She is a Finnish artist and free-lance curator curating a Western Australian art exhibition to Finland. The exhibition will be shown in Lapland, in the Rovaniemi Art Museum (www.korundi.fi), January 2018 portraying the Western Australia landscape with art from the central desert, from a group of Warlayirti artists from Balgo, and photographers Jaqueline Ball, Graham Miller, Kevin Ballantine, Juha Tolonen, Mike Gray and Brad Rimmer.  She also runs  an artist residency in Finland and will act as a facilitator to connect Australian artists to the art scene in Finland and to the other Nordic countries.

To end 2017 we have Jennie Newman  – graduate of  TAFE and  ECU, based now in Denmark, WA. Jennie works with photogram techniques and stitching. Her focus is on bush materials and eco practice but the urban space of Northbridge is proving to be a huge influence. She is there to chat about where nature and culture meet at the Shopfront 2-5pm Sunday 3 to Thursday 7 December

Bonnie Lane is doing a  residency at PICA over Xmas and will stay with us for a few weeks. She is a US based Australian artist whose work explores images found online, as well as social interventions, performance based works looking into the fictional narratives of self-identity fabricated via digital platforms. Go find her at PICA.  And we hope she will be back with us in 2018 for stage 2.

NON RESIDENTIAL – Others with shopfront shows or installations were ……
We started 2017 with two recent Graduates-inResidence working in the studios, Luke Kelleher and Leona Hilz. Both graduated from TAFE Visual Art in 2016 and took the opportunity to keep up the momentum achieved during their studies. For Leona that meant investigating the connection between memory and physical form using found objects as anchors and triggers for emotional recollection.

In March, French born WA based Christophe Canato moved in for 3 weeks to use the studio to develop his new body of work researching the place of the male gender in contemporary western countries within diverse contexts such as politics, religion, science or sexual orientation.Canato brings a background in fashion and commercial photography to his work as an artist in photomedia. His photographs are not portraits but portrayals. It is not biography that they unfold so much as a state of being.https://www.christophecanato.comhttp://christophecanato.blogspot.com.au

Confluence by Boris Milas and Natalie Blom showed in April – photography navigating WA from two contrasting perspectives.   Blom was born and raised in a small Wheatbelt community, while Milas was in born in Bosnia, immigrating to Australia as a teenager. Both artists favour the external medium of landscape photography as an exploration of self and selfhood.

In May we welcomed Bruno Booth.Booth is a graduate and lecturer of graphic design at TAFE, as well as a multi-disciplinary artist whose work bounces between 2 and 3D. His bold, vibrating colours, applied as a refined gradient, reinforce the phys­icality and craftsmanship of his large, graphic structures, distorted by a subtle anamorphic perspective. This residency leads to Bruno’s solo show at gallery central, Trying to be social.

Super Nature by Ned Reilly and Sharon White showed 8 – 17 June
Exploring the mechanics of the Anthropocene and our expectations of the natural world – Ned repurposes imagery while Sharon has collected insect samples and field recordings. These two also graduated from TAFE in recent years.

Paintings by Drew Armstrong and works on paper by Elsie Lapelerie in NOWHEREISPERFECT. Is here perfect now or is nowhere perfect? Big questions to contemplate.20 July – 4 Aug.

WAFTA 7 – 25 AugustWA Fibre Textile Association’s place textile women into our studios with lunchtime talks – this year we had the pleasure of getting to know Liz Arnold and Robi Szalay and their works.

Gary Parris, an art graduate of ours from 2016 heavily immersed in the art of photography set up studio to sculpt, document light and look at visual perception for September.

Then: Denmark (WA) based Jennie Newman, explores photogram techniques 15  Nov – 8 Dec.

2016

In April, Sheyi Bankale from London was here as a PICA resident,  working on feasibility of producing a special Perth theme edition of the journal Next Level, promoting Perth’s artistic talent and visual art events.Next Level launched in 2002 and has gone on to become one of Europe’s leading art photography journals. Sheyi Bankale’s work through Next Level focuses on important distinctions in local identity as the building blocks served to characterise the impact of contemporary photography, and to engage new audiences.  As artist-as-editor, Sheyi Bankale designed Next Level to shape a new photographic landscape exploring the complex paradigms of the local through artworks, so that others discover and through engagement address existing aesthetic and cultural situations.

In May TURNER GALLERY artangel Robert Hague was our guest.October – we welcomed David Rosetzky as TURNER GALLERY artangel.

Zora Kreuzer was the Basel artist in 2014 at artsource, back in Perth temporarily, and stayed with us.August and September brought TAFE graduate, the talented Mr Ian Strange, visual artist, video artist, street artist, back to town to complete some research towards a book and a series of ABC iview docos, http://iview.abc.net.au/programs/art-bites-home-the-art-of-ian-strange/AC1525W001S00

In November, Yi-Wen Liu was living and showing with us.  Wenny was one of the outstanding TAFE grads of 2015. She returned to present Belongingness, where she explored what it is to belong, and how that struggle can bind as well as liberate in her sculptural and live works.

21 Nov to 31 Dec – Tom Blake was a PICA visiting artist, and we can’t wait to see him back in 2017.Others with shopfront shows or installations were water collecting in Carry Me with Dr Perdita Phillips; staff member Rhett Jones knocking a few planks together; Chris Cobilis created Ghost Of Record Store, a sound installation artwork commissioned by the Perth Public Art Foundation; Toygetherness – Telling Perth’s toy stories by ECU PhD candidate photographer DeeDee Noon –  a photobooth research project; Animate Objects by Emily ten Raa featuring native wildlife as icons, Glory Hole by Brent Harrison and Shannon McCulloch explored male archetypes, including a nausea inducing video work (with wine cask); Interface subverted the traditionally feminine form of textiles with contributions from Carla Adams, Anna Dunnill, Kate Power, Mariaan Pugh, Jessica Tan, Gemma Weston and Melissa McGrath for 2016 Fringe World Festival; BLEND 43 – new work by James Cooper;  Jess Boyce, Jazmin Mckechnie and writer Sarah Wood collaborated on a touch show; Kristen Brownfield interrogated the space in Teeter;
Grad Cherish Marrington’s first solo show of erotic drawings, Unclean & Hateful Birds, was a sensation and a sell out; cocomanonxkotai  by Talia Teoh & Anna Kotai comprised large scale macrame pieces and hand stitched textiles and WAFTA’s textile women set up shop with lunchtime talks that included Louise Wells, Anne Williams, Margaret Ford, Joyce Tasma, Rowan Rovere, Pauline White, Lyn Brown, Pauline O’Brien, Patricia Newman-Bruton with residencies as well by Julia Sutton & Jayne Argent – weaving on & off the loom and  Kerrie Argent & Annette Nykiel book-binding & stitching/eco-dyeing & basketry – they will also be back in 2017.What a great year!
Cherish Marrington

2015

October  Christian Thompson  art angel for Turner Galleries

October TARSH BATES for SYMBIOTCA

The unsettling eros of contact zones, and other stories

PhD candidate, SymbioticA, School of Anatomy, Physiology & Human Biology, University of WA explores what it means to be human when we recognise our bodies as multi-species ecologies, with a particular focus on the relationships between Homo sapiens and Candida albicans. Tarsh uses scientific and artistic methodologies to explore physical, emotional, cultural and political relationships between humans and Candida. Works comprise sculptural, photographic and filmic works, as well as organisms.

This exhibition will be part of the program for NeoLife, the inaugural conference for the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts, Rest of the World, and the National Experimental Arts Forum, both being organised by SymbioticA.

August Phillip Hunter and Vera Moller, art angels for Turner Galleries

July HYPO by  Mathew Dickson

Graduating from Central in 2013, Mathew Dickson’s multimedia practice is grounded in Bruno Latour’s scientific  theory of Blackboxing in which technology, through its  ongoing success, renders itself invisible.

Mathew examined the symbiotic relationship between technology and the uncanny. Drawing upon parapsychology and everyday technological objects to inform his work, Mathew’s resulting installation summons technology to reveal its supernatural nature.  photo by Max Kordyl. RIP Matt.

July Laura Potter  and Norman Cherry

UK jewellers exhibiting TRANSPLANTATION  at Gallery Central + workshops

June CECILE WILLIAMS exhibiting TRAPPED at Gallery Central

May Gianni Denitto

In collaboration with the Italian Consul, Italian saxophonist Gianni Denitto was in residence for 2 weeks. He spent 2 days with our students, he performed here for Italian National Day and he composed a work for us.  As well he featured in the Perth Jazz Festival

March   Kate Shaw art angel for Turner GalleriesJanuary February  Ian Strange a residency over the summer by our Graduate Ian Strange towards a new body of work using film,photo and  interventions into suburban houses. http://www.form.net.au/2015/04/ian-strange-shadow-exhibition-opening

2014

FLEUR ELISE NOBLE WORKING WITH PERTH THEATRE COMPANY AND TINA TORABI

performance outcomes at PICA happening in 2015

F WORD  artist Stuart MacFarlane  

Joan Ross Turner Galleries Art Angel

Bronek Kozka came back to show at PCP and conducted a lighting workshop and create another image in the series shot in the shopfront, disguised as an office and and using some of our stylish pre-loved residency furniture.

three minutes to five; it’s time by Bronek KOZKA 2012

Lauren Broom, Rose Barrett, Max Newport, Angela Nie  Central graduates used the studio

-Isms by Pablo Hughes photos from Vietnam that challenges traditional notions of beauty.

 Marcel Cousins  Turner Galleries Art Angel

Ting-Chun Chen  – City of Perth artist exchange with Taipei Artist in Residence

The Yok and Sheryo with Turner Galleries Art Angels

Danielle Freakley  – PICA artist in RES

Linda Banazis – exhibition

2013

OPERATION ZEBRA  Fleur Elise Noble working with Perth Theatre Company

YUHSIN U CHANG – WHITE MYSTERY   Taipei and Perth Sister City Artist Exchange

Yuhsin U Chang’s sculpture work is often ephemeral employing material such as dust or charcoal to mimic natural forms. Each year the City of Perth either sends a Perth artist to Taipei Artist Village or hosts a Taiwanese artist for 2 months in collaboration with Central. http://www.yuhsinuchang.com/

Sophia Szilagyi – 2013 TURNER GALLERIES ART ANGEL

http://www.turnergalleries.com.au/exhibitions/13_szilagyi.php

Gail Hastings

Perthume as part of Transart – Grace Gamage and Olivia O’Donnell

studio spaces for  DADAA artists

Maia Marinelli from USA for Sculpture by the Sea

www.windplayground.comwww.maiamarinelli.com 

18 Feb to 2 March PIAF

My Name Is Raj by Srinivas Krishna

A photo-media installation with family photos from early 20th century India and a digital photo booth. Based on the Bollywood feature films directed and starring Raj Kapoor, Awara (1951) and Shree 420 (1955), this show invites the viewer to participate. Presented by the Perth International Arts Festival.

photo work: Kyle Grey and Andrew Winter; courtesy of Divani Films Inc.

2012

The Drawing Room by Oliver Stretton-Pow

The Uncanny Edge by Bridget Nicholson

Visiting artist Bridget Nicholson invites people to allow her to wrap their feet in clay while  they tell their story and reflect on their emotional relationship to the land. www.touchthisearthlightly.com

Bronek Kozka

in collaboration with Turner Galleries and FotoFreo, Melbourne artist Bronek Kozka stayed with us