Una Bell

The arts practice of local Landcare advocate and Herbarium Research Associate, Una Bell, has developed into a pictographic language of endemic flora and fauna from particular sites. In this exhibition, she draws on the ancient pictograph of the Tree of Life, with the imagery in her paintings and lino prints becoming species lists that catalogue the ecology of the Darling scarp. 

Mundaring Arts Centre Inc. launches the 2024 program with an exhibition showcasing the distinctive language of drawing by four eminent Western Australian artists, George Haynes, Merrick Belyea, Nic Compton and Ric Spencer.

The Language of Colour showcases works inspired by the power of colour to communicate emotions, ideas, and narratives through art. Seventy-eight artists celebrate the richness and diversity of their arts practice, and the cultural expression colours incite.

Slow-making is taking time to notice and to care for people, place and the materials of making. To cultivate is to care for, nurture and encourage the complex relationships between people, plants, animals and the soils that sustain all of us on Earth.

Showcasing recent WA arts graduates, this exhibition highlights their mastery of materials and transformative influence on tradition through contemporary learning.

Barbara Gell

Barbara Gell captures feelings and impressions of being in the Perth hills’ Whistlepipe Gully, and a sense of place through her paintings and drawings. Geometric structure forms the scaffolding on which a variety of marks reintroduce the tangle of natural forms. Gell’s work is centred around the push and pull of chaos and order.

Artists Shelley Cowper, Haya Hagit Cohen and Elmari Steyn explore the intricate ties between place, space, feelings and emotions, where the heart and mind work together to construct a spiritual connection to place; communicating this through traditional printmaking techniques and mixed media works.

STUART ELLIOTT

Shire of Mundaring Acquisition Exhibition

Curated by Sue Starcken

Altered States is a survey of work by seminal artist Stuart Elliott comprised of four distinct yet compellingly connected parts developed through ‘Fakeological’ readings of cultural and historical artefacts and their circumstances. The exhibition showcases over 80 of Elliott’s artworks, including new pieces and significant works loaned from public and private collections.

Photography Competition and Exhibition

In 2022, Cultivate invited entrants to create new photographic works that responded to the notion of cultivation, encompassing ideas, place and flora. 36 photographs were short-listed and are displayed in a public art exhibition at Boya Community Centre.

Transpositional celebrates the interdisciplinary arts practice of partners in life, artists Hans Arkeveld and Joan Johnson. With arts careers spanning decades and the use of vastly different materials, this exhibition highlights poignant recurring personal and societal themes. Significantly, they are linked by their exploration of the iconic, historically loaded symbol – the wheel.

The Sum of Us celebrates the work of a group of students brought together by a botanical art course in Perth with artist and fellow student Margaret Oversby. The group continued to meet after the course, allowing the pursuit of their passion and exploration of various styles of botanical art.

Annette Peterson

Annette Peterson reinterprets her dad’s memories of life at Parkerville Children’s Home in the 1950s through a series of ‘en plein air’ paintings. Her dad’s story emerges through her work, his emotive response intersecting with her own.

Supported by Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries

Through transformative processes, this group of emerging artists take the printmaker’s craft beyond tradition, revealing outcomes using non-traditional materials, scales and forms, following chance revelations and surprising serendipities into an expanded practice.

Shire of Mundaring Open Art Acquisition Exhibition 2022

Curated By Sharyn Egan & André Lipscombe

The 2022 Shire of Mundaring Open Art Acquisition exhibition features artists with a continuing connection to Mundaring and its country. Selected works reflect and explore materials, themes and cultural relationships to and about the natural world.

Anne Williams and Louise Wells

The rhythm of walking, the quiet time alone, and the reflective space this provides are central to this collaborative body of work by Anne Williams and Louise Wells. It’s a Matter of How You Look at Things arose from expanding their observations and taking inspiration from the small, often-overlooked elements of their respective communities.

John Eden

For many years, John Eden has explored the Perth Hills on his bike. Wherever John goes, he finds evidence of the movements and activities of others who have gone before him. These ‘landmarks’, punctuating the landscape, fascinate him with their unknowable, but partly guessable, histories. The places he brings you to through his work include Mahogany Creek’s car graveyard, Sir Paul Hasluck’s abandoned swimming pool, and the former Barton’s Mill Prison.

The Reconnect Photography Project , a partnership project between the Shire of Mundaring, Mundaring Camera Club and Mundaring Arts Centre Inc., is designed to encourage the local community to share their skills and the wonderful place in which they live.

MAC Inc. Members Show

“The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago, but the second-best time is now”. This old proverb is a reminder of the short and long-term benefits of time spent in nature. MAC Inc. members have been invited to reflect on their relationship to caring for and cultivating the natural environment in this juried exhibition.

Tineke Van der Eecken

A new body of work by multidisciplinary artist Tineke Van der Eecken explores the fibres of flora, fauna, and human systems in her show Tributaries. She presents jewellery, small fine metal sculptures, and biological objects formed by corrosion casting, alongside arresting photographic images that represent the life and death thrum of fragile arterial systems: root, river, skeleton, and vein.

Nalda Searles

Curated by Sandra Murray

A crucial figure in the development of contemporary fibre sculpture in Australia over four decades, Nalda Searles shares her extraordinary approach to craft. Finders Keepers showcases new and past works, demonstrating Searles’ role as the instigator of an innovative art movement utilising Australian plant fibre and found objects.

Food for Thought has seen community members come together to share food, skills and conversations about food culture through art. This exhibition showcases work created between master artists and the local community that are a tangible telling of our relationship with food and its influence in our lives.

Michelle Campbell

A response to the conflict between development and community wellbeing, Michelle Campbell’s solo exhibition investigates the psychological impact of the changing urban landscape. Through painting Campbell explores personal connections to homes and suburbs as extensions to a sense of self.

Shire of Mundaring Art Collection Acquisition Exhibition

AMANDA ALDERSON, RIC BURKITT, IAIN DEAN, BETHAMY LINTON, PHILIPPA O’BRIEN AND SARAH THORNTON-SMITH

Celebrating the role of the Shire of Mundaring Art Collection as a record and resource for the Mundaring community, Safe Keeping presents a perspective from local artists on the recent global forced retreat from public spaces and the importance of community networks.

LEANNE BRAY, KATE CAMPBELL-POPE, BERNARD KERR, JENNY KERR

Discover the artists behind the Food for Thought project as they work in residence, creating new work and sharing their skills and with others through a series of appetising workshops. A selection of ceramic, textile and timber vessels by participating artists will also be available on display and available for sale.

Vicki Ames

Using textiles to explore the visual language of urban architectural facades, Vicki Ames’ solo exhibition Traces highlights the ageing surface qualities of buildings and the histories they reveal.

SNART CLUB

Tend/er is an interactive exhibition that brings people together to encourage thought about ways of caring within communities. Physical and online components are woven together into an immersive and reflective experience.

Local photographers celebrate the local natural and built environment of the Shire of Mundaring in the Explore and Expose Photography Exhibition (E² Challenge). A partnership between Shire of Mundaring, Neami National, Mundaring Arts Centre and Mundaring Camera Club, the competition is designed to encourage the community to rediscover and share stories of the wonderful place in which they live

MUNDARING ENVIRONMENTAL ART PROJECT

Exploring the role of pollinators in ecosystems, with a focus on local native birds, bats and insects, school children from across the eastern region have explored the theme Things with Wings for the annual Mundaring Environmental Art Project.

STEPHANIE HAMMILL AND ANDREA VINKOVIC

Surface Tension sees ceramic artists Stephanie Hammill and Andrea Vinkovic explore how clay transforms when interacting with other materials and echoes the journey of discovery, collaboration and skill sharing these senior practitioners have undertaken over the past two years. Manipulated in non-traditional ways, the resulting ceramic creations are complex and unconventional, yet beautiful.

KATE HALLEN

For her latest solo show, Brisbane based artist Kate Hallen combines memories and histories with the fallible effects of dementia, blurring her own recollections with those of her late Grandfather, who suffered from the disease.
 
Connecting to her Norwegian heritage, Hallen explores the effect dementia has had on her understanding of her family history. A family horse, a return to the sea, and a country’s invasion are among the plethora of collected objects and memories left in his wake. These details are combined as poignant images which explore the inextricable connections between memory and identity.