Past exhibitions
2026
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.
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.
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.
2025
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.
Presented in partnership with the Mundaring Camera Club and the Shire of Mundaring, Impressions of Scale presents a showcase of photographic works that explore scale and perspective to highlight the beauty of the minute and the vast.
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.
2024
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.
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.
2023
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.
2022
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.
2021
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.
2020
Tied Up With String challenges fifty-five established, mid-career and emerging Western Australian artists to think inside the box and create small, intimate, covetable artworks contained within identical wooden boxes. In the hands of artists, rules and isolation are not a restriction but a chance to explore new horizons.
JANE BUTTON, MARIE HAASS, AMELIA SONNEKUS AND LOUISE WILDE COOK
Home is a central notion of what it means to be human. A sense of home, however, is not guaranteed, it can be lost to outside forces, or willingly given up in the hope of better things to come. Sometimes homes are left with nothing but stories as guidance; acting as maps on our journeys into new territory.
Leanne Bray
Intricate patterns and narratives reflect the cyclical nature of life in Leanne Bray’s latest exhibition Discernible Sequence in which vibrant paintings and works on paper tell stories of daily life, significant moments and collective celebration.
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
Shire of Mundaring Art Collection Spotlight: Richard Woldendorp, Helen Seiver and Gareth Morse
Grounding brings together three works form the Shire of Mundaring Art Collection which represent ‘productive’ landscapes. This perspective is of particular relevance in the Perth Hills – which forms a threshold between the urban city area and landscapes that are shaped to serve a function through the primary industries – namely mining and agriculture.
Emma Buswell, Eric C, Doreen Harris, Den Scheer, Alastair Taylor and Katrina Virgona
Semi-trailer trucks rumble past just five meters from Mundaring Arts Centre with bales of wool stacked three high and fifteen long, filled to the brim with wheat, barley and other grains, or packed with sheep and cattle. Exploring traditions connected to sheep and wool production in Australia, Sheep Show, celebrates, abstracts, and unpacks this significant industry via its material and cultural expressions.
HANS ARKEVELD | SHIRE OF MUNDARING Retrospective ART ACQUISITION EXHIBITION
Hans Arkeveld is one of WA’s foremost artists and sculptors. This retrospective exhibition documents his 50-plus year multi-disciplinary practice, long-term engagement with the University of Western Australia Anatomy Department, and draws on his passion for the machinations and form of the human body as well as social justice issues.
Reopening Tue 9 Jun and extended to Sun 12 Jul 2020
2019
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.
PART OF THE WHAT ON EARTH PROJECT
Curated by Sarah Toohey
Seeds, Pods and Pollen presents a collection of plant and pollinator inspired artworks created by both children and adults. Artworks have been created through a series of recent workshops across both Mundaring and Midland Junction Arts Centres, at the Avon Descent Festival, and at schools in the surrounding areas.
PART OF THE WHAT ON EARTH PROJECT
An interactive installation by Susie Vickery which takes the form of a cabinet of curiosities, charting the journey of the 18th Century French botanist, Jacques-Julien Houtou de Labillardière. Peregrinations of a Citizen Botanist examines Australia’s current relationship with the environment and presents an alternative view of history.
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.
JOAN JOHNSON
A loved one with dementia. The emotions swirl, the innate pursuit of evocative responses obsesses the mind. Is this person just a shell? Or are there thoughts and feelings within? In this exhibition Johnson explores the roller-coaster relationship between carer and dementia patient - a relationship torn apart by the differing brain behaviours of each participant. Will there ever be a cure? In the meantime, the determination to find a flicker of recognition or a smile conjuring memories of the person’s past, showing they are present, becomes the fundamental quest.
40 artists, arts workers, and community members have looked back at their connection to Mundaring Arts Centre, and towards the future of arts in the eastern region for The Face of Fingerprints. The short film takes a moment on the 40th anniversary of the arts centre’s establishment to create an archive of the people and passion behind the organisation’s success.
40 YEARS OF NURTURING CREATIVE POTENTIAL
Curated by Greg Sikich and Jess Boyce
Pairing emerging artists with established creatives who have been part of Mundaring Arts Centre’s journey, Continuity and Change; Future celebrates 40 years of nurturing creative potential. Twenty exhibiting artists have shared practice and the creative journey to create new collaborative and individual works informed by these relationships.
KAREN PRAKHOFF RICKMAN
In her depiction of landscape, Rickman exploits the potential for mark making and layering inherent in the monotype process. Each layer alters the previous state, simultaneously creating and denying form. Her ambiguous landscapes evoke personal and collective memory: faint, forgotten or altered recollections.
Curated by Cathy Swioklo
Six artists with connections to Midland TAFE’s former Environmental Art course explore the concept of Survival: Fight or Flight. Using a variety of mediums the artists delve into issues that question our existence in a world fraught with challenges. An exciting exhibition evoking a juxtaposition of responses by recognised and mid-career artists Denise Brown, Peter Dailey, Bev Iles, David Small, Cathy Swioklo and Patricia Tarrant.
SHIRE OF MUNDARING OPEN ART ACQUISITION EXHIBITION
Place and Space showcases the work of 33 local artists as they delve into their material and intangible connections to the Shire of Mundaring as well as broader concepts of place. Notions of community, history, personal memories of the area as well as the local built and natural environment feature strongly throughout the exhibition which explores a wide range of mediums including works on paper, painting, sculpture and textiles.
Spotlight on us is a survey of artworks from the Shire of Mundaring Art Collection acquired from past open invitation exhibitions featuring the work of Hans Arkeveld, Jenny Mills, Susan Tingay, Stuart Elliott, David Gregson, Nigel Hewitt, Mark Alderson, Jon Tarry, David Small, Peggy Lyon, Jennifer Irvine, Kirsten Sivyer, Karin Wallace and Norma MacDonald.
2018
Artists and designers Andrea Day, Angela Ferolla, Charlene O’Brien, Katrina Virgona, Louise Wells, Lyndell Darch, Mary Ann Dawson, Minaxi May, Sarah Zel Chescoe, Susie Vickery and Trish Bygott explored fabric manipulation techniques, clothing deconstruction and reconstruction to present an installation of wearable, sculptural forms using upcycled and repurposed materials, reconnecting with lost skills and working against consumerism.
The exhibition complements the annual WOWA Wearable Art Parade held for the first time this year in the historic Midland Junction Arts Centre.
WOWA PARADE SAT 24 NOV 7PM - 8PM
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Louise Wells
“Family stories beyond the dates of significant events are lost if not recorded.” Through contemporary textiles, Wells explored the changing roles, responsibilities and expectations across three generations of maternal women from her family, capturing shared history and the cultural structures that shaped the paths of their lives.
OPENING SAT 24 NOV 6.30PM - 8PM
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Claire Davenhall
Claire Davenhall worked in residence to create an installation based on the first fleet of “lost souls”, shipped from England to Australia in 1788, complementing a series of sculptural works created prior to the show, exploring the stories of multicultural migration to Australia.
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Sue Eva & Kathy Aspinall
Kathy Aspinall repurposed antique and pre-loved items into unique jewellery pieces and artist’s books, while Sue Eva created intimate still lifes that spoke of our shared consideration of love, loss and family to create an inviting installation of works perfect for gifting.
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Invited ceramists Sandra Black, Rodney Blumenfeld, Elaine Bradley, Njalikwa Chongwe, Greg Crowe, Stephanie Hammill, Graham Hay, Bernard Kerr, Jenny Kerr, Janet Kovesi Watt, Steven McCoy, Annemieke Mulders, Claire Ng, Warrick Palmateer, Narayani Palmer, Sylvie Riches, Atsuko Sandover, Stewart Scambler, Andrew Tremain, Andrea Vinkovic, Lee Woodcock, and Garry Zeck transformed the gallery space into a feast of surface, texture, pattern and form, showcasing their distinct approaches to clay practice.
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Studio Payoka
Rory Dax Paton, Adam Ismail and William Leggett shared insights into the industrial, multidisciplinary arts undertaken at Studio Payoka in the Perth Hills. Presenting two and three dimensional works demonstrating their prowess with constructed objects, experimental print and painting techniques.
OPEN SUN 7 OCT 11AM - 3PM, WED TO FRI 10AM – 5PM
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Revisiting the Midland Railway Workshop’s significant contribution to the social and economic fabric of the Eastern region, works from the City of Swan Art Collection by Penny Coss and Nigel Hewitt were displayed alongside contemporary photographic works by Eva Fernandez. Historians Jude Carr and Lisa Buck presented historical photographs, oral histories and rail objects in juxtaposition to Futures Lab’s interactive digital railway pattern 3D printing installation. Capturing the aesthetic of the workshop patterns and reinterpreting local social history this exhibition brought together a blend of approaches and eras to ignite new discoveries.
OPEN SUN 7 OCT 11AM - 2PM, WED TO FRI 10AM – 5PM
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Part of the What, a Tool Project
Curated by Jude van der Merwe
Olga Cironis, Geoffrey Drake-Brockman, Kevin Draper, Stuart Elliott, Sarah Elson, Dawn Gamblen, Phil Gamblen, Peter Hill, Angela McHarrie, Denise Pepper, Monique Tippett and Tony Windberg reflected on the tools they employ in their arts practice and reminded us that, as makers and thinkers, tools are an essential part of an artist’s life. Works presented encapsulated the conventional and the technological to the metaphorical, with a number of artists drawn to concepts of an earlier history and tradition.
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Tea and the sharing of tea is celebrated by many cultures in very diverse and often ritualistic ways. Tea drinking habits can be found worldwide. After water, it is the most widely consumed drink in the world. In conjunction with Antipodean Encounters, Western Australian ceramicists celebrated tea ware and food as a central point of cultural dialogue, presenting their vessels alongside loaned collections of Taiwanese tea ceremony sets.
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Personal objects were the catalyst for conversation between local artists and members of the Perth Taiwanese community who recently immigrated to Western Australia. The artists translated and contextualized these dialogues, creating new works to help navigate the increasingly complex issues embedded in the hybrid cultural society in which we live.
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Plastic Pollution: Reducing our footprint and caring for our planet
supported by act-belong-commit
820 students from Bakers Hill, Chidlow, Darlington, Helena College, Mount Helena, Treetops Montessori, Parkerville, Pickering Brook, Sawyers Valley, Swan View primary schools, as well as independent participants immersed themselves in research and creative investigation to reduce plastic pollution and produce designs for the town’s 2018 Mundaring Environmental Art banners. 16 designs were selected and students worked with artist Louise Cook to hand paint their work on a large scale.
OPEN TUE TO FRI 10AM – 5PM, SAT & SUN 11AM - 3PM
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MAC Members Show
Curated by Mikaela Castledine
The current trend towards fixing or reinventing, as a reaction to our throw away culture, acknowledges something that artists have always done, seeing the beauty in unexpected places. MAC celebrates the ingenuity of our members with an exhibition of works created from the discarded, the broken or the abandoned.
OPEN TUE TO FRI 10AM – 5PM, SAT & SUN 11AM - 3PM
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Presented by City of Swan and Midland Gate
Promoting the creative expression and talents of young people aged 15 – 25 years from across WA, Home presented a diverse range of two and three dimensional works via film, traditional and experimental media. Investigating the theme, “What makes a home”, City of Swan staff provided young people with a platform to exhibit and speak about issues that not only affect them, but also their community via the Youth Out Loud public speaking competition.
OPEN SAT 7 JUL 10AM - 3PM, WED TO FRI 10AM – 5PM
Stephanie Reisch
Artist in Residence
Stephanie Reisch explored mystical and shamanistic precepts through notions of trace and essence whilst creating works in her residency. Grounded in animal alchemy and prehistoric rituals, her works encompassed experimentation in drawing, painting,
sound and digital media.
IN RESIDENCE | 19 JUNE - 15 JULY | TUE - THU 10AM - 4PM & SUN 11AM - 3PM
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Curated by Clare Stroud and Lisa Hegarty
Renowned landscape photographer and State Living Treasure, Richard Woldendorp AM, shared his rarely seen early black and white images that launched his long and successful career in photography. Spanning three continents and almost twenty years, the retrospective included his first experimental images from 1956; his early award-winning portraiture from 1961; and photographs for one of his earliest books, ‘Indonesia’, taken in 1971.
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Plastic Pollution: Reducing our footprint and caring for our planet
400 students from Aveley, Caversham, Clayton View, Malvern Springs and Gidgegannup Primary Schools in the City of Swan immersed themselves in this year’s theme to create designs for the 2018 Swan Environmental Art banners. 12 students were selected, repainting their works on a large scale with artist Louise Cook. The works were then photographed to create 76 banners to be displayed throughout Guildford, Gidgegannup and Midland.
OPEN WED TO FRI 10AM – 5PM
Julie Dowling
PRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH YAMAJI ART
Nationally renowned Badimaya artist Julie Dowling presented an exhibition of new works highlighting the revival of First Nations languages within a local and global context. The suite of miniature portraits represented the importance of cultural preservation on a personal scale, while the larger works paid homage to the significance of the Whadjuk region to the Noongar people and illustrated Dowling’s exploration of Midland’s history and the individuals who contributed to its evolving story.
OPEN SAT 26 MAY 10AM - 3PM, WED TO FRI 10AM – 5PM
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Tim Maley
Presented in partnership with DADAA
Fremantle artist Tim Maley informally worked with the Western Australian Museum in 2013 to draw and paint a selection of specimens from their natural history Collection. The series of works on paper shown in Specimens draws upon their collection as source material with meticulously illustrated examinations of the form, colour and texture of animals and insects.
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Students tutored by Jacqueline Coates presented interpretations of the natural environment through a series of painted works. Inspired by recent workshops investigating the microcosm of the flower, the exhibition included works by Jacqueline Coates, Kimberley Cardow, Joy Connell, Jade T Fisher, Pat Hillard, Hayley Kruger Gradwell, Jenny McGrath, Billie Peka and Amelia Sonnekus.
Using the basic principle of line-making and repetition, Dragica Milunovic investigated how a simple rule of layering within a space can create complex results. Inspired by aerial views of parched landscapes, Milunovic closely observed lines and patterns in nature and manmade lines to create an installation of two and three dimensional works.
In an effort to create a context for contemplation and to highlight objects often overlooked, Bina Butcher and Tessa Beale gathered natural elements and documented interventions in the environment during their 3 month residency. The exhibition featured the results of their explorations and created the conditions for a slower, quieter consideration of our surroundings.
Harrison See explored a deeper appreciation for the physical act of painting, enhancing his (and the audience’s) awareness and mindfulness of his movements by painting with weights, to create landscapes that respond to the Mundaring environment.
Jo Darvall presented a suite of paintings and prints reflecting her interest in the work of Kathleen O’Connor; Kathleen’s homecoming to Fremantle from Paris after WWII, the engineering feats of her father, CY O’Connor, and the waterways that define Jo’s adopted state of Western Australia.
Celebrating 10 years of the annual DADAA exhibition, In Focus opened with a live performance by On Track dancers and a series of workshops with exhibiting artists. The exhibition showcased artworks created at DADAA’s Midland hub where staff facilitate individual creative expression workshops, providing opportunities for artists living with mental illness and disability to explore their chosen mediums.
To celebrate the historic Queen’s Baton Relay (Midland to Guildford en route to the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games) a diverse group of Western Australian artists presented art objects that spoke of national and community pride, commonwealth diversity and local sporting history. Relay featured works by Peter Dailey, Judith Forrest, Ron Gomboc, Marie Haass, Fiona Harman, Robert Hitchcock, Alex Maciver, Desmond Mah, Nalda Searles, Bruce Slatter, Nicole Slatter, Alastair Taylor and Richard Woldendorp.
Curated by Jenny Kerr
Established in 1986, the Shire of Mundaring Art Collection has close to 180 works, with the depiction of the land at the heart of the Collection. Previously acquired works by Sieglinde Battley, Merrick Belyea, Mac Betts, Alex Boddington, Greg Crowe, Rosa Della Torre, Bernard Kerr, David Gregson, Marie Haass, Joan Johnson, Brian McKay, Guy Grey Smith, Michelle Theunissen, Mab Vandeth and Richard Woldendorp echoed the ideas explored by the invited artists in Gallery 1.
Shire of Mundaring Invited Art Acquisition Exhibition
Curated by Jenny Kerr
Artists Sarah Elson, Bec Juniper, André Lipscombe, Desmond Woodley and Yvonne Zago explored the nature of being, their connection to place and the natural environment, demonstrating the diversity of their philosophical approach and sensitive response to materials and processes.
2017
