Celebrating 40 years of creative practice and the enduring contribution of local artists who document the artistic and cultural shifts of the Shire of Mundaring.
Led by curiosity and shaped by lived experience, Creating Space reveals how making art can become an act of survival, defiance, and self-care. Step into a space where creative practice holds pain, power, and possibility - where healing isn't a metaphor, it's a method.
With a focus on colour and mark making, five artists who work in woodblock printing, etching, stencil embossing, cyanotype and screen-printing reveal the alchemy of the print artform.
Paper Thin, Skin Deep brings together emerging and established artists who interrogate the material and metaphorical layers of skin through practices of paper and sculpture. Across tactile, fragile, and resilient surfaces, these works explore the interface between the body and environment, interiority and exposure, permanence and decay.
MAC Inc. Members share exquisite and intriguing works that express their interpretation of the word adornment. Celebrating the ability to transform the ordinary, bringing beauty, individual expression and honouring cultural traditions for embellishment.
To complement the offerings of WEDGE 2025: The Australian Ceramics Triennale, works from the Shire of Mundaring and City of Swan Collections are presented alongside artist selected works from established WA ceramists, celebrating the journey of their practice and response to the land.
For her first solo exhibition, Picnic Terrain, Jen Kerr displays a collection of ceramic plates, platters and vessels that continue her exploration of the in between - the spaces and places, where one way of being meets another- where the land meets the sea, the forest meets the river, the salt meets the lake and the track meets her feet.
A series of landscape paintings reflecting observations in the urban environment within an hour’s drive from the artist’s home. Responding to the sky and land as they meet at the horizon.
A bold collection of botanical paintings, celebrating the beauty, resilience, and diversity of Western Australia’s flora.
An elemental infusion of fibres and earth, revealing the raw origins of plants and clay in a harmonious collaboration with nature.
Through the lens of his camera, Woldendorp has revealed the vast and ever-changing landscapes of Australia for over six decades. This survey of aerial photographs celebrates his vision for the life within the landforms, their complex patterns and breathtaking scale.
An interrogation of material where previous artworks are reconstructed and overlaid, akin to the method of pentimenti and palimpsest, to invoke the allegoric nature of myths and ancient stories in response to the force of climate change and the reality that all human acts have a cause and effect.
Alongside a team of artists from across Australia, Half Time celebrates the unifying power of footy. Delving into thought-provoking inquiries, the exhibition ignites an important and timely dialogue on the diverse roles sport plays within our communities.
Coinciding with the World Disc Golf Championships, and presented in partnership with the Mundaring Sporting Club, On Par explores the intersection between sport and art in a showcase of spectacular golf disc art by established disc artists ‘on par’ with invited Shire of Mundaring artists.
Presented in partnership with the Mundaring Camera Club and the Shire of Mundaring, Life in Motion presents a showcase of photographic works that capture and communicate a unique and individual expression of identity, play and imagination - works that communicate the very movement of existence.
Inspired by the encounter and exchange of deep time, geological forces, and the Anthropocene, the IOTA24 exhibition Mélange incorporates the languages of fibre, earth, stitch, dye, and ephemeral layers of voice, video, and performance.
Inspired by the encounter and exchange of deep time, geological forces, and the Anthropocene, Underfoot artists work collaboratively to adapt craft knowledge through the practice of slow-making.
During their residency, witness the transformation from white box gallery to an experiential space of conversations and exchange for their IOTA24 exhibition, Mélange, opening at MAC in July.
Inspired by the encounter and exchange of deep time, geological forces, and the Anthropocene, Underfoot artists work collaboratively to adapt craft knowledge through the practice of slow-making.
During their residency, witness the transformation from white box gallery to an experiential space of conversations and exchange for their IOTA24 exhibition, Mélange, opening at MAC in July.
Drawing Space is an exhibition of works on paper that provides an experience of viewing that’s unhindered by narrative. Each work depicts a sphere, or spheres, and a horizon line only, and they, along with the marks of the medium, become the tools with which to negotiate the complexities of space, time and the emotive power of colour and image. Conventional means with which to apply narrative are negated leaving nothing but a pure experience of what is before, the material substance of the work.
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 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.
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.
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 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.
Did you know that Mundaring Arts Centre also manages Midland Junction Arts Centre (MJAC)? If you are looking for even more arts and cultural experiences in the region visit the MJAC website for details.
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