Sidney Nolan’s Ned Kelly Series blends fact and fiction at AGWA
Unless you’ve been living under a rock you should recognise Sidney Nolan’s iconic image of Ned Kelly. You should also know the famous ‘Such Is Life’ quote. Some of you…
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Review: Sculpture By The Sea, Cottesloe 2018
As summer officially calls it a day, March will see Cottesloe Beach swarming with around 200,000 people checking out Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe. Make that 200,001 as I was…
In Cahoots: Aboriginal Art exhibition
Eighteen months ago leading independent artists (both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal) began an ambitious plan to hold residencies in remote and regional Aboriginal art centres across Australia. Over one hundred artists took…
When The Sky Fell W.A. Indigenous Art exhibition
The subtitle of the exhibition When the Sky Fell is Legacies of the 1967 Referendum. Prior to the opening night at PICA I didn’t having a strong understanding of the Referendum,…
The Rise of Sneaker Culture exhibition Art Gallery WA
I’m not big on fashion exhibitions, I have however been working in consumer psychology and studying trends for waaaay to long. No surprise then that I started salivating when I read about the Art…
Sculpture by the Sea 2017 launch, winners, disabled access
Having been to all of the Sculpture by the Sea Cottesloe exhibitions I thought I might be a bit jaded by now. Who was I kidding? As soon as I…
Review: Phenomenal Lords of Lightning
If you’ve read the previous Arcadia Australia post you’ll know how brilliant it was, even more so if you went along which I hope you did. I promised another post…
Review: Surprises aplenty at phenomenal Arcadia Perth
I have to admit the thought of going to an outdoor music festival in 36 degrees heat was making me rethink my ticket purchase. I’m so pleased I didn’t, what…
50,000 bees enter Art Gallery: PICA Radical Ecologies
Another piece worth seeing, or is that experiencing, at the next PICA Radical Ecologies exhibition is lying down with bees, 50,000 bees to be exact.
Terminator seen at Radical Ecologies at PICA
You can always rely on Perth Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA) to present something out of the box and the current exhibition Radical Ecologies is no exception, particularly the piece titled Re-Wired/…
Trends: Pottery the new way to relax
If you, like thousands of others, received a colouring-in-book for Christmas you might want to spare a thought for pottery instructors everywhere. Pottery you see has been identified as the next big…
Calling all Comic Tragics to the Art Gallery of WA
Calling all comic artists and lovers get yourself down to the Comic Tragic exhibition at the Art Gallery of WA pronto. I’m guessing it’s not often a gallery curator gets…
Winning ways at Sculpture by the Sea Cottesloe 2016
Imagine being confronted with 77 prime sculptural pieces and asked to pick a winner … not a job for this little bunny. Luckily the comments made by the winners suggest the judges…
Augmented reality: 18th Century painting comes to life
Have you ever looked at a painting and pondered what it would have been like to have actually been there? To feel the breeze, smell the aromas, hear the sounds.…
The first global market explained at Treasure Ships exhibition
Ponder for a moment you’re off on your annual trip to buy spices, a lot of spices. Now imagine you have to get them home, to the other side of…
National Writers Congress 2015: Funding the Arts
Festivals are tricky things. They arrive with so many promises. Promises of inspiration, rare insights, chance encounters and diets suspended by designer morsels. But what happens when the Festival comes…
Citizen Band inspires at WA Art Gallery
On my way out from seeing the Brett Whiteley exhibition at the WA Art Gallery I was lured into an insignificant looking exhibition called Citizens Band in the Screen Space.
Brett Whiteley pondered The American Dream
I finally made it to the Art Gallery to see Brett Whiteley’s most iconic painting The American Dream, American Nightmare. Years ago I’d seen a documentary about the painter and…
