Hours: Saturday 2pm & 4pm
Sunday 2pm
Cost: $8 / $5 members & concession
More Info: www.pica.org.au

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A Slice of Light reveals the challenges and possibilities that digital interactive performance offers to the performer, composer and designers exploring the audience’s reception of non-linear interactive digital performance.

Garth Paine (UWS), Brandon Hur (Melbourne), Paul Bourke (UWA) and Hellen Sky will adapt audiovisual environments to the architecture of PICA. Part
installation, part performance and part lecture, Sky and her collaborators invite you to take a peek into the processes involved in the design and performance of their ongoing interactive hybrid work.

A Slice of Light illuminates the inner workings of designing and embodying the human computer system developed for interactive performance/installation The Darker Edge of Night. Bio data from brain waves, muscles and breath, generate evocative sound worlds in real time
and live camera feeds transform the body into virtual scapes projected onto surfaces inside PICA.

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.”

Hours: Mon - Sat 10am - 6pm
Sun 12pm - 5pm

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Born and raised in Amsterdam, Amok's work first started appearing on the streets in 1996. Since then he has become a prominent figure in the Amsterdam graffiti and art scene.

He is known for his perfect colour combinations, original letter style and tropical feel pieces.His canvasses build on the years of technique learned from the streets, combining his love for lettering and colour in a simple and effective way. His canvases are bold, striking and carefully balanced. This collection is heavily inspired by his first encounters of Australian marine life.

The Butcher Shop is pleased to present Amok's first solo show, and the first exhibition in the stores newly renovated art space.

Opening night drinks Wednesday 22 July from 6pm.

Cost: 0
More Info: http://www.pcp.org.au/

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Perth Centre for Photography is seeking submissions for the seventh annual IRIS AWARD - the acclaimed Western Australian accolade for unique and outstanding portraiture in a photo-based medium.

Finalists will be selected to exhibit at the Perth Centre for Photography and compete for this important award.

Visit PCP's website for more information and to download an entry form.

Cost: 0
More Info: http://www.pcp.org.au/

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Slight is a photographic installation evoking the artists profound contemporary isolation and unease through the study an depiction of transient light.

Artist talk/meet the artist: Sunday, 2 August at 2pm

Cost: 0
More Info: www.zebra-factory.com/five

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five explores ambiguity, minimalism and the frame in photography

Christopher Young is interested in who or what is not there, what he can't quite see and the helplessness of not being able to ground an image in a time line.
The images are an attempt to exploit this helplessness and the illusion of reality to create a more visceral, rather than intellectual, response to images.

Artist talk/meet the artist:
Sunday, 2 August at 2pm

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

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Curator: Melissa Keys
Artists: Jemima Burrill (UK), Patty Chang (USA), Kelli Connell (USA), Futoshi Miyagi (Japan), Elise/Jürgen (AUS), Smith/Stewart (UK), Julie Traitsis (AUS)

Searching philosophical exchanges, fleeting glimpses and peep hole voyerurism Intimate Acts brings together a range of performative, video and photographic works that provide a glimpse into the nature of intimacy, desire and the suggestive power of the imagination. Drawing together National and International artists this exhibition will explore the social, physical and psychic relations between subjects.

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

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The exhibition comprises three elements:
Hold Everything Dear I
Hold Everything Dear II
Hold Everything III

Strangely beautiful and fascinatingly repulsive, Benjamin Armstrong's mysterious sculptural forms invite imaginative journeys, trigger our innate curiosity and provoke unanswerable questions. Benjamin Armstrong: Hold Everything Dear features three major new works by this leading artist including Hold Everything Dear I & II, which were recently presented in the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art's prestigious NEW09 exhibition and Hold Everything III which premieres at PICA.

Opening: Wednesday 17 June, 6pm

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

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Evoking 60s and 70s video art Adam Geczy's Concerts poetically explores creativity, collaboration, friendship and pedagogy. Described as the 'consummate videographic creation' by leading art writer John Conomos this enthralling and resonant installation by one of Australia's most thought provoking and inquiring artists is 'a clarion call to the importance of ideas, dialogue, history and politics in art'.

This exhibition is presented in partnership with the Lake Macquarie Art Gallery, NSW

Hours: 5.15pm
Cost: $15
More Info: www.futureshorts.com/index.php?site=45

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Future Shorts Perth + 1UP Microcinema have joined forces and have one fab weekly gig for you, now every Sunday start Aug 7th.

Pre sale tickets are a must! Pre buy your ticket for FS and get free entry for any other film that day!

Sundance to Cannes, Berlin to New York. FS is a global monthly short film festival which screens the world's freshest content. This is fresh cinema and we want you to be a part of it!

Buy tickets: http://www.insertcoins.com.au/microcinema/
More on FS: http://www.futureshorts.com/index.php?site=45