Hours: 11am -6pm
Cost: Free

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From September 3rd, eight Perth artists will transform the old bank at 214 William Street, Northbridge into a short-term makeshift studio, culminating in a closing party on September 18th that will showcase the work created during this time.

The Bank will be open for the duration of the project, allowing for the exhibition to be viewed at all stages of it's development.

Curated by Jamie Macchiusi and Gemma Weston and featuring the work of Tim Carter, Jessee Lee Johns, BennettMiller, Jessie Mitchell, Joel Mitchell, Mark Parfitt, Matthew Shane and Andrew Varano, THE END is ultimately about what comes afterwards, using the mess and chaos of the live artist's studio to explore the failure of the finite and the possibilies born of endings.

Hours: 8pm: Fri 11th, Sat 12th, Tue 5th, Wed 6th, Thu 7th, Fri 8th, Sat 9th, Tue 12th, Wed 13th, Thu 14th, Fri 15th and Sat 16th

5pm: Sun 27th

2:15pm: Sat 19th and Sat 26th

Cost: Tickets: Standard $25, Concession $15, Students $15
More Info: www.bsstc.com.au/pool-no-water/

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Venue: Perth Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA)


Director: Adam Mitchell



West Australian Premiere



Sally, a famous artist, invites her old friends to luxuriate by her new pool. They have struggled to make a living from the art world, while she has achieved international success. They are all back together once again and the party is in full swing.



A horrific accident occurs to the hostess and pushes the group to make a bold decision. Could Sally lying in a coma become their greatest work of all? Is it their one chance for success?



Inspired by a true story, this shocking new play by British playwright Mark Ravenhill (author of Shopping and F**king) exposes professional rivalry, jealousness and the innermost thoughts nobody wants to confess.



“compulsively watchable” The Times
“darkly comic, visually spectacular” The British Guide



Tickets: Standard $25, Concession $15, Students $15
Bookings: BOCS Ticketing, ph (08) 9484 1133, www.bocsticketing.com.au.

More info: www.bsstc.com.au

Hours: voting open until 6pm on 17th September.
Cost: 0
More Info: http://www.onwilliam.com.au/competitions

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Vote for your favorite in each category!

Online voting will be open from 10am on 11th September until 6pm on 17th September.
The winner for each category will be determined by the highest amount of votes.

http://www.onwilliam.com.au/competitions

Hours: 12 – 3pm weekdays
2-4pm Saturday or by appointment
Cost: 0
More Info: www.gallerycentral.com.au

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The Pink Shipping Container at the entrance to Central TAFE Art Gallery will become the venue for an interactive soundscape by visiting Taiwanese composer/sound artist Kueiju Lin in collaboration with Chris Tonkin, composer and Assistant Professor at University of WA Music Department.
Employing recordings of the ultrasonic echo-location calls of bats, the installation explores the relationships between sound, environment and behaviour by inviting participants to sense the space through listening in complete darkness.
It utilises interactive surround sound.

Hours: open 7 days
Cost: 0
More Info: www.redstripeclothing.com

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An instore exhibition of original tattoo inspired artwork by 11 Western Australian Tattoo Artists.

Hours: MON-SAT 10am - 6pm
SUN 12pm - 5pm
Cost: free

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Fluid shapes, natural lines, fictional characters, patterns and colour come to life in Claire's fist solo exhibition, Monster, at The Butcher Shop.

Since childhood, Clare has experimented with drawing and illustration, leading her to interior design, fine arts and finally to graphic design where she has discovered her passion. Here she learnt to integrate her love for illustration with logo design and type treatment, t-shirt designs, music artwork, fabric design and many other applications.

Graduating Graphic Design in 2008, Claire received Keith + Lottie's Beaumont Award, recognising the development of her own artistic style within her design practice. It is these artistic tendencies which have surfaced in the form of Monster.

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.