Hours: Tuesday-Sunday 11am-6pm
Cost: FREE
More Info: www.pica.org.au

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Artists: Aleks Danko (VIC), Emily Floyd (VIC), Kirsty Hulm (VIC), Anastasia Klose (VIC), Andrew McQualter (VIC), Rose Nolan (VIC), Mark Parfitt (WA), Tom Polo (NSW), Rachel Scott (NSW)

A rare glimpse into the artistic process, this exhibition offers an insight into the decisions artists make when developing their work, and their hopes and fears about how it will be received by their audience.

Presenting work by eminent senior artists such as Aleks Danko and Rose Nolan alongside work by recent graduates such as Tom Polo and Kirsty Hulm, the exhibition highlights that the aspirations and anxieties that accompany the making of an artwork remain constant throughout an artist's career. The approach taken to the subject ranges widely, from Andrew McQualter's poetic and earnest wall drawings about the role of the artist in society, to the bitingly funny videos by Rachel Scott about the pitfalls of working from her parents' garage.

Ultimately, what these frank and deeply personal works reveal is that the desire of the artist to communicate and connect with the viewer is the driving force in why they do the things they do.

Hours: Tuesday - Sunday 11am-6pm
Cost: FREE
More Info: www.pica.org.au

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Sydney based artist Izabela Pluta's practice explores the psychological connection (or disconnection) between places. Featuring a new series of large format photographs and a wallpaper mural this exhibition highlights work specially developed for PICA focusing on Western Australia's resource industries.

Examining the semi-permanent, fly-in-fly out lifestyles of regions such as the Pilbara, Gestures of the Landscape delves into the impermanence and transience of WA's mining towns.

Hours: Tuesday - Sunday 11am-6pm
Cost: FREE
More Info: www.pica.org.au

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Janet Biggs' video, Anana Dream examines the role of free will in the lives of polar bears in captivity. Anana Dream is the dream of things that can never be and the loss of things unknown. Now on the endangered list due to their shrinking sea ice habitat, polar bears face the prospect of survival in captivity or extinction.

Biggs' video takes its name from the Inuit word for pretty, which is also the name of one of the bears she filmed. Anana and her brother Lee swim in perfect synchronisation. On initial viewing, their movement, grace, and power is awe inspiring.

The music, a love song from the 1982 film Blade Runner, presents a romantic relationship between the two bears, and by extension examines an overly romanticised relationship between humans and animals of prey.

Upon continued looking, the polar bears synchronised swimming reveals itself as the mind-numbing, repetitive behavior of animals in captivity.

Hours: 11am-4pm Wed-Sat
Cost: 0
More Info: www.gallerycentral.com.au

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Necromancing: predicting the future by communicating with the dead

These powerful iconic images taken from history and contemporary culture form combinations that will intrigue and fascinate the viewer.

Hummerston plays individual elements off against each other to create paradoxes which pose questions as to the nature of representation and its application in our daily lives.

The elements are layered and juxtaposed in order to evoke responses that are contradictory and paradoxical.

A guillotine meets a bonsai, a squid meets an atom bomb and Fidel meets Felix. In a world of registered trademarks, is everything symbolic due to its familiarity and its context?

Harry is a well know WA artist and arts educator.

Hours: Opening Night: 6pm Friday 7th August
Thurs-Fri 12-5pm
Sat-Sun 12-4pm
Cost: 0
More Info: www.pcp.org.au

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PERTH CENTRE FOR PHOTOGRAPHY
91 BRISBANE ST, PERTH

In 2003, during the first housing boom of the new millennium, Stacy Mehrfar set out to photograph the spate of new suburban developments throughout the continental United States. Mehrfar turnedher camera on the older communities that were often left to neglect in the wake of their newer counterparts.

Many of the new communities Mehrfar photographed emptied amid the first bust of the new millennium, leaving behind incomplete developments and heavily altered landscapes. American Palimpsests | This Was What There Was is a photographic reckoning of several cycles of growth and contraction that reflect the American way of life today.

Opening Night
6pm Friday 7th August

Hours: Mon - Fri 10am-4.45pm
Sat 2-4.45pm
Cost: 0
More Info: www.gallerycentral.com.au

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STUDIO - Australian Painters Photographed by R. Ian Lloyd
A book and set of portraits showcasing 61 important Australian painters including WA’s Robert Juniper, Julie Dowling and Michael Iwanoff, depicted in their studios, amongst their work.

Hours: Thurs-Fri 12-5pm
Sat-Sun 12-4pm
Cost: 0
More Info: www.pcp.org.au

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Juha Tolonen | Alistair Dickinson
Selected new work from 2008 & 2009 CLIP Award winners.

Opening Night
6pm Friday 7th August

Hours: 10am - 3pm Daily
Cost: free entry
More Info: www.onwilliam.com.au/popsicle

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Visit POPSICLE! during the Perth Fashion Festival to win a $1000.00 OnWilliam Shopping Spree

Hours: Tuesday to Saturday 11am to 5pm during exhibitions
closed public holidays
Cost: 0
More Info: www.turnergalleries.com.au

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This is the first time that Turner Galleries has shown the work of well-known local artist Trevor Richards. Trevor’s practice comprises painting, sculpture, installation, architectural interventions and video. This exhibition presents a new series of paintings and three dimensional works which allude to architecturally modelled space.

Trevor is widely recognised for his formally structured, minimalist approach to painting that is informed by his sustained engagement with a limited range of colours and an admiration for the commonplace. In 2008 he was included in CANOA, a large touring exhibition of Australian non-objective artworks that was shown in three venues in Germany. He was also commissioned in 2008-9 to make a large work for All colours permitted as long as they don’t interfere with commerce, a major international exhibition presented in the cities of Katowice and Szcecin in Poland.

Trevor received funding from the Department of Culture and the Arts WA towards this exhibition. He is represented in numerous local, national and international private and public art collections. A catalogue will be published to coincide with this exhibition and will be available at the gallery.

Hours: Tuesday to Saturday 11am to 5pm during exhibitions
Closed on public holidays
Cost: 0
More Info: www.turnergalleries.com.au

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Lisa moved to Darwin a couple of years ago and her new works have moved away from the repetitive mark making of small dots in multiple layers, or (as in her last show with us) the slightly larger and looser brush marks. Her work has developed through a systematic approach to material experimentation, researching a variety of technical approaches and methods of applying and manipulating paint. This body of work involves a process of repeatedly pouring lines of paint, from the top of the canvas to the bottom, resulting in parallel lines of vibrating colour. In a related series, also on display, Lisa has poured pools of paint that interact as random shapes on the canvas surface.

She wrote about her new work, “I am interested in repetition and coding as alternatives to language and representation. The paintings are abstract and not abstractions; they are derived not from a re-presentation of the natural world but a presentation of the nature of a material process under controlled circumstances, the imagery is therefore intrinsic, they are paintings that aspire to an aesthetic self-sufficiency. The images are created through a series of predetermined actions, interventions or gestures, which are applied across the canvas layering transparent and opaque oil paint to create a surface that embodies a tension between material and image. The resulting rhythmic patterns are the consequence of a set of strictly imposed rules that govern the painting process.”

Lisa’s paintings can be found in many public and private collections around Australia.

Hours: Tuesday to Saturday 11am to 5pm during exhibitions
Closed on public holidays
Cost: 0
More Info: www.turnergalleries.com.au

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Serena’s new works mark a shift in the use of materials since her last solo exhibition with us in 2003. Her earlier works were created by pouring thin layers of coloured wax over boards, however the new works utilise thin washes of acrylic on canvas. They perhaps reflect her new home in Albany on the south west coast, with the surfaces conveying something of the fresh air and luminous colours of the ocean and surrounding farmlands. These surfaces are in general monochromatic, with hints of colour seeping through from previous layers. Whilst these paintings may evoke a sense of place or a sensory experience, they are mainly about the formal concerns of abstract painting and its ‘process’. Like Lisa, Serena also utilises gravity in the creation of her paintings, but favours a far more rapid approach.

She wrote; “These monochromes explore the possibilities of poured acrylic stained onto raw canvas - and the interplay between layers hidden and concealed. Using gravity, speed, risk and surface manipulation to arrive at a colour experience.”