ARTIFACTS

November 2011 – March 2012

Friends of the Art Gallery of Western Australia

Featuring artists: Rebecca Dagnall, David Hay, Peter Kendall, Bronek Kozka, Audrey Welch. What’s on at the Gallery and beyond.

Friends’ events, art history lectures, artist talks, exhibitions, films, family activities and more …

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tim storrier empire of the coals oil on linen 120 x 240cm

tim storrier

johnny romeo

wendy sharpe

peter kendall

alex proyas

david spencer

bernard ollis

fred cress

daevid anderson

guy warren

kim nelson

thor engelstad

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Contents Artifacts is published quarterly by the Friends of the Art Gallery of Western Australia Inc. (the ‘Friends’) PO Box 48 Northbridge WA 6865 Tel: +61 (0)8 9492 6750 friends@artgallery.wa.gov.au www.artfriends.com.au Office Opening Hours: Mon, Wed, Thu, Fri; 10am-1pm/2-5pm.

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MEMBERSHIP Friends receive Artifacts as part of their membership, amongst other benefits.

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Please contact Annie Silberstein: friends@artgallery.wa.gov.au Editorial Coordination & Production Management: The Write Business Editor: carola@thewritebusiness.com.au Design: zebra-factory.com Printing: GEON Cover L-R: Gwen Gaff (EO), Robert Buratti (President), Philip Mitchell (Artistic Director, Spare Parts Puppet Theatre) and Mariana Atkins (Councillor) in the Friends of AGWA Children’s Activity Space, supported by Lotterywest.

President’s Message.............................. 4 Membership Update............................ 4 Friends’ Events...................................... 6 Plates, blocks and stones..................... 8 Friends of AGWA Children’s Activity Space...............11 What’s On at the Gallery.................. 12 Living life to the full...........................14 Getting to know your Friends.......... 17 Artist@Home...................................... 18 Legacy................................................... 19 ASA International Scholars Series... 20 Of Memory & Suburbia..................... 22 The ADFAS Lecture Series............... 24 Shopping.............................................. 25 Event review: Open Studio............... 26 Workshops for Children................... 27 Calendar............................................... 28 What’s On............................................ 29 Visiting The Art Gallery of Western Australia............................31

© 2011: the artists, authors and the Art Gallery of Western Australia Copyright for all images and works is owned by the artists or their representatives. No part of this magazine may be reproduced without written permission from the Friends of the Art Gallery of Western Australia.

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President’s Message

Membership Update

Robert Buratti, President

Gwen Gaff, Executive Officer

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s we push into the busiest period of 2011, things are in full swing at the Friends. We are very proud to announce the Friends of AGWA Children’s Activity Space, generously supported by Lotterywest. Part of Princely Treasures, the project was steered wonderfully by councillor Mariana Atkins and Executive Officer Gwen Gaff, who have put in an enormous amount of work to bring a special offering to children visiting the Gallery. After several meetings between myself, the Gallery and Lotterywest, it’s our aim to continue this project on an annual basis.

I’d also like to thank Rosita Valladares for once again delivering an exceptional film season, and Helen Smith for the perfect management of the ever-popular ADFAS lectures. I’ve never received as much praise from members for the quality of our events and projects than I have in recent months.

This edition of Artifacts profiles the rich line up of special events arranged for Friends from November 2011 until March 2012, thanks to Mariana, and we see what’s on at the Gallery and AGM Friends of the Art Gallery of Western Australia Monday 12 March 2012, 5pm, Gallery Theatrette (details will be sent out via email closer to the date)

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with ADFAS across 2012. We are delighted to host Dr Don Evely, from the British School at Athens, in the first of the ASA International Scholars lecture series in March. The April 2012 issue will also cover the next film festival, in support of the Museum of Modern Art in New York: ‘Picasso to Warhol: Twelve Modern Masters’.

Of course, we invite any feedback from members on how we can create a more engaging experience, so don’t hesitate to provide any suggestions or offer your assistance as a volunteer.

Please book early, not only to avoid disappointment but also to make sure we continue to offer these opportunities to connect with the local arts community and to learn about the arts.

You will notice changes to Artifacts, which has thankfully moved off my desk and into the hands of Carola Akindele-Obe and Louise Jones of The Write Business. With expanded content and improved design, we feel that this will expand our service to members and the Gallery.

Thank you again to the volunteers and Councillors for all their hard work and enthusiasm behind the scenes, and to our Executive Officer Gwen Gaff for coordinating the many aspects of our Friends’ community.

All the best for the holiday season, and I hope to see you at a Friends’ event soon.

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hat a wonderful six months it’s been since I joined the Friends in April and my sincere gratitude to the members, volunteers, Councillors and Gallery staff who have welcomed me so warmly.

This organisation celebrates friendship and art, and I am thoroughly enjoying getting to know such a vibrant community. Please don’t hesitate to say hello; I welcome conversations with members, sharing your knowledge and experience of Friends.

Unfortunately, the work on the Gallery’s facade has meant that the Friends’ lounge and office is temporarily closed longer than anticipated. We expect that we will re-open to members and the public in early December. Meanwhile, the Friends’ desk at reception continues to field enquiries, and the Friends’ telephone number reaches us for bookings and memberships. Thank you to Gallery staff and volunteers who are kindly assisting at the Friends’ desk and to our members for your patience.

I’d also like to extend a heart-felt thank you to Anne-Marie Drew and Phillida Preston who both dedicate a day per week to the Friends office, particularly vital as we streamline our administration processes. Their volunteer support and long term knowledge of Friends is invaluable. www.artfriends.com.au

This organisation celebrates friendship and art, and I am thoroughly enjoying getting to know such a vibrant community.

Guest Contributors

We are reviewing the administration systems to implement more cost and time effective ways of supporting a rich programme, meeting members’ needs, bookings and customer service.

Friends are encouraged to move ‘online’ to receive our communications and to confirm bookings via email.

(Don’t worry; we will continue to serve our ‘offline’ Friends, by continuing to use the post and telephone).

Currently, approximately two thirds of our Friends receive event information and booking confirmation via email, including additional events, partner discounts and other benefits that we promote in between the advertised events in Artifacts magazine.

If you are not receiving our emails or have trouble opening attachments, or would like to provide your email address, please contact us by phone or email at friends@artgallery.wa.gov.au.

Soon we will trial a new online ticketing system and will notify members when it is operational.

Your feedback will be appreciated as we assess its suitability for Friends.

Meanwhile, the Gallery is abuzz with the fabulous Princely Treasures exhibition. I urge you to bring the family and enjoy the free Spare Parts Puppet Theatre workshops for children.

Allison Archer is the curator and manager of Turner Galleries.

Publicity consultant of 26 years, Claire Condry has been lucky enough to work with some of the world’s greatest performing artists. She is also a freelance writer and regular reviewer for the ‘Australian Stage’.

In the approach to Christmas I encourage you to extend the goodwill of Friends by giving the gift of a membership to family and friends. (don’t forget that when you introduce a new Friend, you’ll receive $10 off your membership renewal.)

I look forward to seeing you at a Friends’ event soon and especially at our Christmas Party on Sunday 11 December.

N.B. The Friends’ office will be closed from 23 December to 11 January.

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Louise Jones is on the run from a life of crime – an experienced barrister.

Always passionate about crafting the written word and intrigued by people’s multifarious life journeys, Louise is now a full-time writer and editor.

Carola Akindele-Obe graduated from Glasgow School of Art and went travelling. 25 years later, she continues her passion for new adventures, art, craft and design, as an arts manager, designer, writer and editor.

Wanted!

Volunteers

Become A Friend Join the Friends’ community to enjoy a rich social and educational calendar including a fascinating art appreciation programme at the Gallery and beyond, regular e-news and Artifacts, access to the Friends’ lounge, discounts on purchases at the Gallery Shop and more, plus reciprocal benefits with

Monday to Friday, Lucy Harper is the curator for the Historical Works on Paper collection at the Art Gallery of Western Australia. Outside these hours, she has an interest in the Italian language and culture, and recently swapped her Brompton city run-about for a sturdy hybrid to cycle around Myanmar.

fellow state galleries and ‘friends’ groups, across Australia.

For more information visit: www.artfriends.com.au Top The opening of the Princely Treasures exhibition.

Image © Art Gallery of Western Australia

We are looking for Friends to help with the coordination of events, our online marketing, the Friends desk over the Princely Treasures exhibition and with general admin support. Please contact: Gwen.Gaff@artgallery.wa.gov.au Many hands make light work!

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Friends’ Events B y Mariana Atkins, Programme Director

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t has been a busy year!

In 2011 we’ve had several successful events at the Gallery and in the community, and there’s still more to come.

Our aim is to offer interesting and varied events that help our members engage with the State art collection and art in the community at large.

This year the Friends have explored street art in Northbridge and conducted an art and culture tour of Subiaco. We have visited Tania Ferrier’s thought-provoking exhibition The Quod Project at Heathcote and enjoyed a private tour of Fothergills. At home, we have taken the ever-popular tour of the Gallery’s conservation labs and a tour of the Remix exhibition.

Once again, the ADFAS series has educated and delighted us and in support of the Princely Treasures exhibition we have presented a film festival with APPRECIATING, a series of short lectures illuminating the objects in the collection. Alongside this, we have continued our vibrant artists in studios series with visits to Peter Kendall (see p26), with Nigel Hewitt and Audrey Welch in November. A variety of lectures have been offered such as Burrup Rock Art, Baroque Opera with Baroque Gardens coming soon and we are delighted to host the first of an ASA International Scholars’ lecture series next year, as well as a fascinating line up of ADFAS lectures. (see p24).

We would love to hear your ideas for new events. Drop us a line and help us shape your organisation. As always none of our events would be possible without the kind support of our many volunteers. If you would like to be involved get in touch and join the community of Friends.

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Upcoming Events PRINCELY TREASURES FILM FESTIVAL – National Trust Gardens, Stourhead Sunday 6 November, 10am – 12.30pm Art Gallery of Western Australia Theatrette (via James St entrance) Members $35/Guests $45 (includes morning tea) Enjoy a virtual tour of the finest 18th century gardens including Henry Hoare II’s magnificent vision of paradise at Stourhead and an illustrated talk by Sue Geddes-Page, Principal Lecturer/Art Portfolio, Central Institute of Technology, on the era of English garden design when arcadian vistas of classical temples and statuary were created.

OPEN HOUSE ART SHOW – AUDREY WELCH Sunday 13 November, 3 – 5pm Mosman Park Members $33/Guests $44 (includes afternoon tea) This is a unique opportunity to meet and view the work of internationally exhibited and collected American abstract artist Audrey Welch. Set in the architect-designed home of a Friend, Audrey will also give a talk about her recent abstract paintings (see p18).

Opposite left Nigel Hewitt, The Three Romances V (from the series of 10), mixed media on printed paper, 83cm x 103cm. Courtesy the artist.

Opposite right Rachel Coad, Artsource Fremantle studios.

Photo: Eva Fernandez

PRINCELY TREASURES FILM FESTIVAL – Sir Peter Paul Rubens Monday 14 November, 6.15pm – 8.30pm Art Gallery of Western Australia Theatrette (via James St entrance) Members $30/Guest $40 Rubens was both a courtier and a diplomat who’s Counter-Reformation war art was grandiose, violent and triumphalist, yet the ultimate in the Baroque style of movement, colour and sensuality. This documentary takes you into his Antwerp studio where his most popular paintings were produced.

Melissa Harpley, the Gallery’s Curator of Historical Art, Painting, Sculpture and Design, will talk on War and Victory: Model for a Title Page.

PRINCELY TREASURES STORE – Special Friends’ Shopping Day Wednesday 23 November, 5.30 – 7pm FREE Event (Member’s Only) RSVP by 21 November.

10% discount on merchandise during the event only. Gift-wrapping, glass of champagne and a surprise gift for all attendees (see p25).

STUDIO VISIT: NIGEL HEWITT Sunday 27 November, 3 – 5pm Darlington Members $33/Guests $44 (includes afternoon tea) Acclaimed artist Nigel Hewitt will introduce us to his unique technique to create richly layered works using charcoal, oils and wax. Friends will also see how politics, history, culture and the environment influence his art, at this not to be missed open studio opportunity. www.artfriends.com.au

FRIENDS CHRISTMAS PARTY Sunday 11 December, 6 – 8pm Art Gallery of Western Australia Members $40/Guests $50 Join with Friends for good cheer, fine wine and delectable food to celebrate another rich year of Friends’ achievements and fellowship.

Friends are invited to visit artists and view their work behind the usually closed doors of their studios at the historic Old Customs House building – the bastion of the WA artists’ community for the last 26 years these studios have fostered the careers of over 200 artists – many of whom are well established names today.

MHF20: EXHIBITION TOUR and FLOOR TALK Saturday 21 January, 4.30 – 6pm Fremantle Art Centre Members $35/Guests $45 (includes afternoon tea) The Mark Howlett Foundation (MHF) has made a major contribution to the arts community in WA through its intriguing philanthropic support of mid-career artists over the last 20 years. A special exhibition and book showcasing the artists, now significant names in WA art, marks its final year. The Friends are invited to celebrate with the MHF in an exclusive exhibition walk through and floortalk before the big party (see p19).

SCULPTURE BY THE SEA Sunday 4 March, 5 – 7pm Cottesloe Members $35/Guests $45 (includes drinks and nibbles) The eponymous exhibition of over 70 local, interstate and international artists will again transform Cottesloe beach into a stunning sculpture park.

Come and join Friends and the sunset with a curator’s talk and guided walk through with selected artists.

ARTSOURCE STUDIOS Sunday 5 February, 3 – 5pm Fremantle Members $35/Guests $45 (includes afternoon tea)

FOTOFREO AT TURNER GALLERIES Sunday 18 March, 3 – 5pm Northbridge Members $35/Guests $45 (includes drinks and nibbles) FotoFreo is a month long biennial festival of photography that showcases the work of Australian photographers alongside leading photographers from Asia, Europe and the Americas. Friends

are invited to a special floor talk by exhibiting artists Rebecca Dagnall and Bronek Kozka as well as hear about the innovative Art Angels artist residencies from gallery director, Helen Turner (see p22).

NEW! KNOSSOS: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE Monday 26 March, 6 – 8pm Art Gallery of Western Australia Theatrette (via James St entrance) Members $40/Guests $50 (includes nibbles and refreshments) ASA International Scholar Series with Dr Don Evely, British School at Athens, Curator Knossos (see p20).

NEW! A TALE OF TWO ISLANDS: Cyprus and Crete in the Bronze Age Wednesday 28 March, 11am – 1pm Art Gallery of Western Australia Theatrette (via James St entrance) Members $50/Guests $60 (includes light lunch and refreshments) ASA International Scholar Series with Dr Don Evely, British School at Athens, Curator Knossos (see p20).

BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL Contact the Friends office: +61 (8) 9492 6750 friends@artgallery.wa.gov.au

Bookings are essential, limited and subject to availability. Payment is required upon booking, and prices include GST. Valid Concession/Seniors ID and Membership Cards must be presented when purchasing concession memberships and making members bookings.

Confirmation: All bookings are recorded on a door-list, with booking and event confirmed via email or phone call within seven (7) days of the event.

Cancellations: Seven (7) full days notice of an event is required to qualify for a refund or credit. Membership fees are non-refundable and non-transferable.

Conditions: The right is reserved to add, withdraw, reschedule or substitute artists/lecturers and/or vary advertised programs, prices, venues, seating arrangements and audience capacity. The rights of booking and admission is reserved and is subject to Friends and the venue’s terms of admission, copies of which are available from Friends on request.

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Plates, blocks and stones:

five centuries of international prints

By Lucy Harper, Associate Curator of Historical Works on Paper

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n 2009 I spent five months in London, working in the Prints and Drawings Department of the British Museum, as a recipient of the Harold Wright Scholarship.

Wright was a philanthropist, print dealer, collector, and educator who, continuing the long tradition of British scholars who advised many of the major Australian art institutions on their acquisitions of fine art prints, advocated discernment and knowledge through the handling of original works of art. Upon his death in 1961, his widow established the

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Scholarship that, since that time, has allowed graduates of Australian and New Zealand universities to study first-hand the great print collections of the British Museum. The department contains the country’s national collection of Western prints and drawings and is one of the top three collections of its kind in the world.

The experience was truly amazing and enormously beneficial to developing an understanding of the history and techniques of printmaking from the fifteenth century to the mid twentieth century. I had

Above William Blake, Thenot remonstrates with Colinet, Lightfoot in the background from the Pastorals of Virgil 1821 wood engraving 9.4 x 16.4 cm (sheet), 3.3 x 7.3 cm (image) State Art Collection, Art Gallery of Western Australia Purchased 1977

open access to the collection, allowing for uninhibited viewing of one of the greatest print collections in the world.

At over two million works to choose from to view this was, at times, incredibly daunting and often overwhelming. Yet, it kick-started my ability to look at prints, to distinguish the differences in technique, to appreciate a good impression from a bad one, to understand the process of making and, ultimately, to recognise the extraordinary beauty that can result from the interaction between printing ink and www.artfriends.com.au

The international print collection, largely out of sight for many years, is a formidable resource that offers remarkable insights into the history of art...

paper. And I never tired of walking into the Great Hall after cycling my way through the streets and parks of London watching autumn turn to winter on my trusty Brompton fold-up bike.

Upon my return to Australia and into my new role of curator of historical Australian and International works on paper at AGWA, I was keen to draw on my international experience and so began familiarising myself with the State Art Collection’s holdings of international prints. In total, the collection numbers approximately 1400 works and has been building since the first acquisition of a print by an international artist was made in 1897. Slowly I worked my way through the collection, box by box, aiming to get a sense of what we held, how the collection was formed and areas of strength or points of individual achievement. What soon became obvious was that this collection, largely out of sight for many years, is a formidable resource that offers remarkable insights into the history of art and the trajectories of the print medium. It also tells the story of place, of how those responsible for the development of the collection made targeted and ambitious acquisitions that remain some of the most celebrated works in the broader collection today.

The first result of my time in London and several months sifting through the solander boxes in the Print Room of AGWA is Plates, blocks and stones: five centuries of international prints. While aspiring to reveal the geographical breadth and chronological range of the collection, it also aims to give a sense of the media’s unique and varied aesthetic possibilities that can be traced in this display from the late fifteenth century woodcuts of Albrecht Dürer, through to explorations in colour combinations of an Andy Warhol and Eduardo Paolozzi screenprint in the 1960s. Between these bookends, are works that reveal the radically different approaches to the art and craft of printmaking made by some of the most influential figures in the history of art, including Josef Albers, William Blake, Henri de ToulouseLautrec, Francisco Goya y Lucientes, David Hockney, Wassily Kandinsky, Käthe Kollwitz, El Lissitzky, Edvard Munch, Paul Nash, Emil Nolde, Pablo Picasso, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Odilon Redon, Bridget Riley, Egon Schiele, Jacques Villon and James Whistler.

Displayed largely in a chronological sequence, it is also possible to see the collecting trends here, at AGWA, over the past one hundred years and ultimately, the highly idiosyncratic

nature of the collection. While there was an impressive start to the formation of the international print collection at the turn of the nineteenth century that paralleled the beginnings of the State Art Collection, a period of stasis thwarted its development for almost fifty years when acquisitions of books for the Battye Library took preference over the purchase of works of art. A critical shift came in the mid-fifties when the first Print Room for the Collection was opened and the first Keeper of the Prints was appointed. It was from this period through to the mid-1980s that the development of the State Art Collection benefited enormously by the astute and focused aspiration of Gallery staff to form a meaningful collection of international prints.

One of the greatest challenges facing a works on paper curator is making the collection accessible to the public. It is a vast undertaking.

Historical works on paper, which includes both Australian and International prints, drawings, watercolours and photographs made prior to 1970, are an essential part of the State Art Collection and, at approximately 5,600 works, make up – in numbers – about a third of the entire Collection. Unlike paintings and sculpture, they can only be displayed for 12 months over each five year

Printmaking NOW! The Art Gallery is running a workshop for 13-16 year olds on Thursday 12 and Friday 13 January 2012, 10am-1pm.

Suitable for students interested in developing their art skills Cost: $77.

Bookings essential. Info: See p27.

Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award Now in its 36th year, the Award exhibition presents a compelling selection of contemporary Australian printmaking. Exhibition runs until 20 November 2011.

Open 10am – 5pm, 7 days.

Info: fac.org.au

Printmaking and Independent Publishing Forum Join local and nationally renowned artists and curators to discuss self-initiating print projects and collaborations. Saturday 5 November, 1-4pm. FREE. Info: fac.org.au

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Continued…

Top Bridget Riley Fragment 1/7 from Fragments 1965 screenprint on acrylic sheet, ed. 49/75 69.0 x 85.6 cm (image) State Art Collection, Art Gallery of Western Australia Purchased 1968 Left Paul Gauguin Nave Nave Fenua [Fragrant island] from the series Noa Noa [Fragrance] 1894 colour woodcut, edition of 25-30 40.0 x 27.2 cm (sheet), 35.9 x 21.0 cm (image) State Art Collection, Art Gallery of Western Australia Purchased 1972

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period as light causes irreversible damage to works on paper if not properly monitored and displayed judiciously. In the new Your Collection 1800-today displays, significant measures have been made to integrate a greater presence of works on paper. With works on paper being on a six month rotational display cycle, this also means a greater percentage of the collection being incorporated into the display over coming years. I am also working towards an exhibition scheduled for 2013 which will draw largely on the Gallery’s works on paper holdings of Western Australian colonial art. Plates, blocks and stones is a further critical step in giving prominence to a piece of this broader collection.

We are enormously fortunate in Perth to have access to this wonderfully rich and diverse collection of historical international prints. I encourage a visit, and repeat visits, to not only see these works before they return to storage at the end of November, but also to be charmed and inspired by these quietly nuanced, sophisticated and incredibly powerful works of art.

Plates, blocks and stones is on show until 28 November 2011.

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Friends of AGWA Children’s Activity Space 24 September 2011 – 9 January 2012 FREE

Calling all little princes and princesses!

There’s plenty to occupy your little highnesses at the specially designed children’s palace adjacent to the Princely Treasures exhibition. Taking inspiration from the exotic fashion and adornment, children can enjoy making their own crown, tiara or treasure chest, as well as playing with puppets and royal dress ups.

Thanks to the Friends a friendly helper is on hand to help with the art activities throughout the school holidays and over the weekends, from 10am – 4pm. There are also puppets, kaleidoscopes, a 3D misfits puzzle, plenty of books and a comfy chair for mum, dad, grandparents or friends.

Final year 3D Design students from Curtin University designed and constructed the sumptuous Princely Palace to stimulate and entertain children, as a special voluntary project.

The Punch and Judy puppets for the Activity Space were created by children from Canning Vale College under the guidance of The Little Puppet Theatre and have also been donated to the Art Gallery for the community to enjoy during the exhibition. Come and try your hand at bringing the puppets to life and create your very own Punch and Judy show.

Budding puppeteers can take a step further in the special workshops run by Spare Parts Puppet Theatre in November, December and January.

These will bring to life a cast of exquisite Sicilian style marionettes in a puppetry performance workshop never seen before. (Read more on p27) The Children’s Activity Space is open for the duration of the exhibition and you don’t have to visit the exhibition to enjoy it, come as often as you like.

Top Punch & Judy are ready and waiting.

Image © Art Gallery of Western Australia

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Above Children from Canning Vale College with Friends Council member Mariana Atkins showing the puppets they created for the Friends of AGWA Children’s Activity Space. Photo: The Little Puppet Theatre

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What’s On at the Gallery For more information about the Gallery’s exhibitions and events visit: www.artgallery.wa.gov.au

Your Collection 1800 – today Ongoing Your Collection 1800 – today marks a new beginning for the presentation of the State Art Collection. For the first time in the Gallery’s history, the Collection will be presented in a series of interconnected chronological displays. Occupying the entire ground floor of the Centenary Galleries and the main Gallery building, Your Collection brings together Indigenous and non-Indigenous art, craft and design from international, national and Western Australian contexts in new conversations.

Top left Kathleen O’Connor Colour rhythm c1928 State Art Collection, Art Gallery of Western Australia Purchased with funds from the Art Gallery of Western Australia Foundation, 1995 © Kathleen O’Connor, c1928 Top right Sèvres porcelain factory Garniture France, 1780–90 Photo © Victoria and Albert Museum, London Right Gunybi Ganambarr Milngurr 2011 Artwork courtesy of the artist and the Buku-Larrnggay Centre, Yirrkala, Northern Territory Image © Gunybi Ganambarr, courtesy of the artist and the Buku-Larrnggay Centre, Yirrkala, Northern Territory

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Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards 2011 Until 19 December 2011 The Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards, the richest Indigenous art award in the country, is a national award founded in 2008 to celebrate the breadth, diversity and excellence of art from all corners of Indigenous Australia. The Awards acknowledge the significant and ongoing contribution Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists make to Australian art, culture and society.

Be sure to vote for you favourite artist when visiting the Awards

exhibition, as your votes will decide the recipient of the People’s Choice Award for 2011. Voting closes on Sunday 20 November and the recipient will be announced on Thursday 24 November.

Princely Treasures: European Masterpieces 1600-1800 from the Victoria and Albert Museum Until 9 January 2012 Princely Treasures gives Perth audiences an extraordinary insight into the relationship between art, craft and courtly life in Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

More than 90 objects from the Victoria and Albert’s magnificent collection of European decorative art from this period are currently on display, which includes painting and sculpture, ceramics and glass, metalwork and furniture, textiles and dress, prints and drawings.

The Art Gallery of Western Australia is the exclusive Australian venue for the Princely Treasures exhibition.

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Your Collection Vast: North-West landscapes Until 18 March 2012 The opening up of northern Western Australia to mining exploration in the 1960s also opened up this terrain to artists – both literally by providing easier ways to access it physically by car and air, and imaginatively as a ‘new world’ to discover. Australian artists Russell Drysdale, Guy GreySmith, Robert Juniper, Sidney Nolan and many others travelled through the area at this time, and their practice often changed significantly as a result.

It is timely to look at the effect of those earlier encounters with a hitherto unfamiliar landscape on the art of non-Indigenous Australian artists, as this region is again in the public eye due to the current mining boom in Western Australia. Vast: North-West landscapes focuses on key works in the State Art Collection which explore the aesthetic outcomes of the challenge to understand the topography of, and experience of being in, a previously alien place.

Top left Guy Grey-Smith Skull Springs country 1966 State Art Collection, Art Gallery of Western Australia Purchased 1967 Top middle Winner of the 2011 Tom Malone Prize Clare Belfrage Untitled (#291210) 2010 © Clare Belfrage, 2010 Photo: Rob Little Top right Dave Amudo Self portrait with trees 2010 Eastern Goldfields Senior High School

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Tom Malone Prize 2003-2012 & Translucence: contemporary glass 17 December 2011 – March 2012 2012 marks a decade of the Tom Malone Prize. This acquisitive award for Australian glass artists has been the platform for the Gallery to collect some of the best work being made in the country today. This exhibition features work by 2012’s shortlisted makers, all past winners and a selection of glass works from the State Art Collection.

Works have been selected to bring to view objects which have been recently purchased, and those works that precede and parallel the works of the Tom Malone Prize acquisitions. With a wide variety of approaches to making – from kiln-forming, to dazzling hot glass blowing, to patte de verre to work incorporating video – the display broadens viewers understanding of both what is happening in the glass world and what is possible in the medium of glass.

Year 12 Perspectives 2011 16 January – 25 April 2012 Year 12 Perspectives 2011 is your yearly taste of art by the best, brightest and most talented graduating high school artists in the State. An annual barometer of what our youth are thinking and feeling, it is also a rich celebration of the role of the arts in the development of individual identities.

The visual arts are a medium through which thought, inspiration and intellectual inquiry is given striking form. Entertaining, diverse and challenging, Year 12 Perspectives 2011 will continue the fine legacy that has for so long been one of the Gallery’s most popular exhibitions.

FREE Heritage Perth Events Saturday 12 and Sunday 13 November 2011 Saturday – Historic Tours Running half hourly: 10.15am, 10.45am, 11.15am and 11.45am Celebrate Heritage Days at the Art Gallery of Western Australia. Join our Volunteer Gallery Guides for tours of the historic Centenary Galleries.

Learn about the French Renaissance architecture and the colourful history of the old Police Law Courts, including our resident ghosts!

Sunday – Heritage Day LegoArt Event 10am-12 noon and 1-3pm LegoArt is on again in the Gallery concourse! This popular event includes a two hour Lego session and free entry for children into the Princely Treasures: European Masterpieces 1600 – 1800 from the Victoria and Albert Museum exhibition. Children must be accompanied by a paying adult into the exhibition. Kids can also take the free Princely Treasures Children’s Trail in the exhibition space once they’ve completed their LegoArt session.

Children can construct their own replicas of historic Perth buildings or build Princely Palaces inspired by our Princely Treasures exhibition. They have 60,000 pieces of white Lego to use to create their masterpiece. The Perth Adult Lego Society will also create stunning examples of historic buildings and Baroque palaces that will capture children’s imaginations.

This is a hands-on construction event that will delight kids – big and small.

Note: Limited spaces apply for both sessions, no bookings required.

Enquiries: 9492 6640. artifacts november 2011–march 2012

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Living life to the full David Hay talked with Louise Jones about his unconventional journey from Claremont schoolboy to internationally recognised glass artist.

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s a young boy David Hay vividly recalls having to take over the controls of his father’s bi-plane, flying above Luton airport, as his father took one of his customary post lunch naps.

David describes his father Ian Hay as an enigmatic man who lived life to the full; and how he feels so blessed to have accompanied him as he indulged his twin passions of sailing and flying.

David and his brother were born of Australian parents in England in the late 1950’s. Later as a schoolboy back in Perth, David insists he possessed no particular artistic ability or inclination although, upon reflection, concedes he was good with his hands. He rowed and sailed and spent cherished time ocean racing with his father. He left school with no real idea of what he wanted to do but felt obliged to choose a vocation and enrolled in Engineering at UWA. His student years in the 1980’s were characteristically carefree and directionless.

Ian Hay’s untimely death at the age of 51 set David on a journey, literally, around the world. He was invited to join the Sydney to Hobart race as a crew member aboard the Osborne Park built boat Sulphur. David’s grandmother gave him $500, he flew to Sydney and completed the race in near perfect racing conditions. Celebrating in Hobart the $500 soon ran out and 14

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David was island bound. He had to find a job and took a position as an assistant engineer in the Tasmanian Mines Department in Launceston spending a very happy two-year stint on the west coast of Tasmania, in his words ‘collecting rocks’.

David crewed in the two subsequent races for Jon Sanders, aboard Perie Banou, the boat that completed a double circumnavigation of the world. On the second David recalls, “We turned right out of Sydney Harbour directly into the fiercest of storms and remained on starboard tack for two and a half days”.

In 1985 David returned halfheartedly to Perth unsure of his future.

Resisting convention to settle down he took off with friends travelling extensively through Burma and India.

They trekked entirely on foot for 21 days across the barren and isolated landscape of the Ladakha ranges in the northern Himalayas camping along the way. Later, he met up with his brother and they cycled from Central Turkey to London finishing 55 days later in Trafalgar Square. “We lit a small camp stove in front of the National Gallery, ate pasta and drank wine,” and no-one sought to move them on.

David married his Perth sweetheart Karen in 1992 and they remained in London. A friend’s mother owned an antiques business and gave David and Karen a gift of Victorian moulded pressed glass goblets. David was instinctively drawn to the feel of these glasses and became something of a collector. The Industrial Revolution had seen the manufacture of decorative moulded glass as affordable replicas Opposite David Hay, A giant’s footprint. Photo: Adrian Lambert, Acorn Photography Top right David Hay (right) with father Ian and brother Richard at Bigginhill airfield, UK, 1973

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of 17th century and Georgian crystal and David would trawl Portobello market in London’s Notting Hill. One day whilst enjoying a goblet of wine David wondered how they were made.

Within months he was enrolled in the International Centre for Glass at the Dudley College of Technology, near Birmingham. He later graduated as the top student in his year.

Blowing glass is physically very demanding but David found that he had the requisite stature, strength and co-ordination for moving the glass pipe up and down and superior spatial awareness. He possessed a natural talent for predicting how the material moved on the pipe, what it had done and critically what it would do next.

After Dudley, David joined the studio of celebrated UK glass artist Neil Wilkins in Frome. Starting as an unpaid assistant, he quickly became an indispensable member of Neil’s team.

In those days they were still using lead in their glass; lead behaves differently to the sodium lime silicate used today, it is softer, lagging behind the rotation of the pipe, and moving on the pipe for a longer period and it is obviously heavier.

David returned to Perth in 1998 and joined Edith Cowan University’s newly created glass studio, teaching students and blowing glass. One of the first commissions David undertook was the

glass ‘lamp shades’ for the chandelier at Parliament House, with metal work by noted artisan Ben Doust.

David began to form some significant relationships and collaborations with other artists including the sculptor, Dr Nien Schwarz. He has enormous respect for Nien and her understanding of form and its relationship to the ground and says he has learned a great deal from the sculptural perspective she brings to their collaborations. David and Nien have worked together creating pieces for Sculpture by the Sea, together with Nathan Bray and Jasper Dowding.

Without these creative collaborations, and the influences of his mentors, David generously acknowledges, he would not be creating glass.

One such valued partnership is with Kevin Gordon, an engraver who uses a sand blasting technique.

“Kevin is an amazing ‘colour theorist’ with an innate understanding of how colours interact.” David started making glass for Kevin to engrave and over the years they have developed an artistic dialogue.

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both the inside and the outside of the forms. Typically Kevin discusses with him the effect he wants to achieve, sandblasting over layers of colour and David is able to interpret and predict Kevin’s vision in the form he creates.

Kevin’s influence and encouragement has been, in David’s view, critical to his own artistic growth. David is able to instinctively interpret from very simple pencil sketches the form, shape and effect an engraver seeks to achieve.

David has taken this sophisticated understanding of colour and shade and applied it in his own work.

A passion for the Australian landscape has invigorated David’s current body of work, due to be exhibited at Gunyulgup Galleries in January 2012. Several of the pieces are inspired by the work of West Australian photographer Richard Woldendorp, particularly aerial images of man’s impact on vast landscapes. We see a patchwork of lines; reminiscent of a bird’s eye view looking down upon the endless fences criss-crossing the landscape. Not unlike the view a small boy might have from a bi-plane looking down on the fields below.

David is a previous Finalist of the Ranamok and Tom Malone Glass Prizes. His pieces can be found in many private and public collections including the Ulster Museum, Museum of Decorative Arts Berlin, The Glass Gallery, Leerdam Netherlands and the Victoria and Albert Museum. His work can be seen locally at Aspects Gallery and Gunyulgup Galleries.

David Hay Studio Visit Friends will have the opportunity to meet David in an OPEN STUDIO event, in the cooler months of 2012.

Book Now! Don’t miss the ADFAS lecture on Monday 3 September about the golden age of Victorian glass. (See p24)

Tom Malone Prize The Tom Malone Prize exhibition will run at the Gallery 17 Dec 2011 – March 2012. (See p13)

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Getting to know your Friends Kevin Jackson in conversation with Louise Jones

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ife Member and former President of the Friends, Kevin Jackson’s passion for art started with an early appreciation for the finest art materials to which he was introduced at his family’s iconic Jackson’s store.

At 17, his father gave him a choice; he would support him through architecture study or buy him a passage to England where he would work with, amongst others, Rowneys and Winsor & Newton to learn about art materials from the people who made them.

Starting work at Spicers Paper in Blackfriars, London, earning the princely sum of eight pounds a week, Kevin was shown the correct way to fold fine writing paper slightly off centre. Later at Rowneys and Winsor & Newton he learned how canvasses were stretched and primed, and spent precious time in the pastel room compiling boxes of different shades to order.

Kevin learned about the origin of precious pigments such as the natural ultramarine from the rare lapus lazuli, the orange-red vermilion, favoured by Titian, from the toxic mercury sulphide mineral cinnibar, the scarlet and red pigments from crushed cochineal insects full of carminic acid and the sought after Indian yellow pigment from the urine of sacred Brahman bulls fed with mango leaves.

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with exquisite retail premises filled with mahogany cabinets and silk rugs.

Blinds were discretely pulled down when members of the royal family came to purchase supplies.

After a ‘grand tour’ starting with a journey across the Atlantic to New York, Kevin returned to his father’s side at Jackson’s brimming with new found knowledge, in particular a keen appreciation for the difference that quality art materials could make to an artist’s work.

In time Kevin joined former Friends’ luminaries, Ray Sampson, Margot Bunning, Frank Ellis, Jeffrey Summerhayes, Lyn Hughes and Judy Hughes amongst others, at the Art Gallery Society, as the Friends was formerly called. There commenced a period of extraordinary sell out functions and some special acquisitions by the Gallery with the funds raised.

Kevin remains a strong advocate and role model for the vital role volunteers play in arts education and fundraising, particularly since returning to the Friends’ Council in 2011.

On a trip to Boston Kevin walked into the Museum of Fine Art finding it full of glorious flowers. He had

stumbled upon their ‘Art in Bloom’.

Struck by the energy and beauty he determined to reproduce the event at home. The first Art in Bloom opened to critical success in Perth in 1986 with lavish donations of trees and flowers.

For a well-travelled man who has seen much art Kevin finds it surprisingly easy to name the single work of art that most captivates him, namely Leonardo da Vinci’s portrait Lady with an Ermine, which hangs in the Princess Czartoryski’s Museum in Kraków, Poland.

At the Gallery his favourite painting is without hesitation Charles Blackman’s, blue Tryptich Alice 1957.

Kevin has fond memories of Betty Churcher, then Gallery Director, approaching the Friends for assistance in raising funds to acquire it; and is proud of the Friends’ efforts to do so.

Top Charles Blackman, Triptych Alice 1957 oil and enamel on Masonite 121.6 x 274.1cm (sight) 124 x 276.9 x 6cm (framed) State Art Collection, Art Gallery of Western Australia Purchased with assistance from the Friends of the Art Gallery, 1988

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Artist@Home – Audrey Welch

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fter just nine months in Perth, world traveller and American-born abstract artist Audrey Welch ponders how Australia will impact her painting.

She confides that she is still working through the influences of the past five years in Bangkok, yet she feels an Australian inspiration drifting into her psyche.

“In Thailand the colours are quite acid, there is a chaos of colour everywhere, in peoples clothes, the flowers as well as the built environment.

During a residency at Guildford Grammar School, not long after I arrived here, I really began to feel the impact of nature in Australia. The tones of the gum trees in particular, in the school grounds, captivated me.”

Audrey’s paintings reflect her nomadic existence; recurring themes throughout her work are of ‘mapping’, and therefore ‘place’. She explains, “It is not through a sense of nostalgia for place, but more of a ‘finding your way’, driven by the need to assimilate to diverse locations.” There is a wandering sense in her sizeable canvases, but not one of aimless itinerancy, her use of line and mark-making compose exuberant structural statements and the collage elements create an experiential depth.

As we talked about how an artist makes shifts in their work, Audrey told the story of how line became more dominant in her work. It was after one of those poignant moments where one day, whilst studying in the

States, Audrey found herself watching ice-skaters from a bridge. Their etched lines in the ice, sometimes carving through virgin expanses then meshing with high-traffic pathways, crystallized her thoughts on “finding a way, in and out of chaos”.

At Audrey’s exhibition, in the beautiful surrounds of a Friend’s architect-designed home, guests will be fortunate to view early and recent works. Audrey will give a talk about her journey in painting and be available to chat.

If you happen to be in San Francisco instead, you can catch the solo exhibition of Audrey’s recent painting, showing concurrently in November at Toomey Tourell Fine Art.

Top right Audrey Welch, Day 17, Guildford

Book Now! OPEN HOUSE ART SHOW – AUDREY WELCH Sunday 13 November, 3–5pm; Mosman Park Members $33/Guests $44 (includes afternoon tea)

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Audrey Tulimiero Welch is a graduate of the Art Institute of Boston with a Masters in the Visual Arts, the recipient of an MFA Merit Scholarship Award. She has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in the United States, Thailand, Indonesia, Germany, and Australia. Her work resides in numerous prestigious public collections including: GOOGLE, San Francisco; Four Seasons Hotel, San Francisco; Trump International Hotel, New York; Sak’s Fifth Avenue, New York; MGM, Las Vegas; Hyatt Regency Hotel, Muscat, Oman and various private collections.

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Legacy The Mark Howlett Foundation this year celebrates, and brings to a climax, 20 years of stimulating Western Australian art.

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ince 1991 this innovative foundation has given artists fundamental support –to develop their work, unfettered, particularly at a time in their careers when it would not have been possible otherwise.

Using a pioneering and sustainable subscription model the Mark Howlett Foundation (MHF) has supported 14 artists without external funding or grant applications, instead relying solely on individual and corporate subscribers.

Operating with the primary objective in mind of providing a space for artistic exploration and experimentation, the MHF enabled the selected artists to create a substantial body of work over a period of 12 to 18 months, free from financial and thematic or curatorial restrictions.

Apart from developing artists’ careers the MHF has also cultivated a wider legacy – a significant collection which documents a time in West Australian visual art and which strengthens several local collections – both private and public.

Kieran Wong, MHF Chairperson, says “Providing a deeper engagement with visual art was always a part of the Foundation’s vision. It has been a unique opportunity for people interested in purchasing art to get to know artists, observe their studio practice and follow a project’s progress.” www.artfriends.com.au

The MHF sought out and coordinated a group of patrons or subscribers who contributed financially to commissioned artists one-off projects. On completion, subscribers received original artworks and a suite of prints. Collectively subscribers have contributed $1 million of funds and artists have produced outstanding collections of work.

So why bring a close to this evidently mutually beneficial model? Kieran explains, “It has been hugely successful and its model has set standards that others have followed. The 20th year anniversary is a huge milestone and as such the Board feels it is a timely point to draw Mark Howlett Foundation to a close. The arts environment has also changed in twenty years, and whilst the need to support mid-career artists is still urgent it is timely for new funding approaches to be established and the MHF Board hopes other members of the community will continue to develop entrepreneurial ways to support artists beyond government funded grants.”

To celebrate the achievements of this exemplary organisation a calendar of events has unfolded over the year to appropriately mark the end of the Foundation. Entitled MHF20, the year will culminate in an exhibition of the work of twelve celebrated Western Australian artists and the launch of a book.

Friends are invited to learn more about the Foundation, enjoy an exclusive tour of the exhibition and a floor talk before partying with all the MHF supporters and artists at the Closing Party & Book Launch at Fremantle Arts Centre on Saturday 21 January.

MHF Project Recipients George Haynes 1991 Giles Hohnen 1992 Jeremy Kirwan-Ward 1994 Mary Dudin 1995 Eveline Kotai 1997 Trevor Vickers 1998 Penny Bovell 1999 Theo Koning 2000 Paul Hinchliffe 2001 Galliano Fardin 2002 Trevor Richards 2004 Jane Martin 2005 Bevan Honey 2008 Susan Flavell 2009 Book Now! MHF20: EXHIBITION TOUR and FLOOR TALK Saturday 21 January, 4.30 – 6pm Fremantle Art Centre.

Members $35/Guests $45 (includes afternoon tea) Clockwise from back left MHF artists: Mary Dudin, Penny Bovell, Giles Hohnen, Trevor Vickers, Theo Koning, Eveline Kotai Background paintings from left are by Eveline Kotai, Jane Martin, Mary Dudin and George Haynes.

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ASA International Scholars Series Lectures by Dr Don Evely, British School at Athens, Curator Knossos

The Friends of the Art Gallery of Western Australia are delighted to co-host the first of a series of lectures organised by ASA Cultural Tours, in March 2012.

Bringing the legend back to life Deep within a dark labyrinth under the palace of King Minos at Knossos on Crete, the Minotaur roamed, a terrifying beast that was half-man, half-bull. Each year a grisly offering was made to the Minotaur – 12 Athenian youths who were forced into the labyrinth, never to return.

Princess Ariadne, in love with the Athenian hero Theseus, gave her lover a great ball of wool to unravel as he entered the endless maze of tunnels, enabling him to find his way back to the surface after killing the beast.

In the 19th century, Sir Arthur Evans brought this legend back to life as he excavated an extraordinary complex on Crete, unearthing fragments of wall-painting, ceramics and the foundations of numerous narrow, seemingly endless passageways. He named this civilisation ‘Minoan’ after the legendary king.

So began a new era in understanding the Ancient Mediterranean. The extraordinary richness and diversity of the Bronze Age continues to be revealed as archaeologists and scholars work at unravelling the mysteries of the past.

Our knowledge has evolved as we learn to ‘read’ our world in new and exciting ways. The landscape itself is as vital to understanding an ancient site as are the traces of the civilisations revealed by excavation. The interaction of ancient peoples is recognised as the means by which ideas were shared and technologies moved through regions.

Whether listening to a lecture or travelling on tour, ASA Cultural Tours ask people to take a step beyond simply looking at a place, and instead use the present in combination with artefacts and sites from the past to imagine the march of history.

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r Don Evely holds a most historic archaeological position. He is the Curator for Knossos at the British School at Athens, following in the footsteps of the eminent Sir Arthur Evans.

Offering unrivalled opportunities for excavation and research Knossos, in Crete, is believed to have been the heart of Minoan civilization. Don’s many years of evaluating the excavations and evidence there have given him a supreme knowledge of not only the Minoan period, but also across the nine millennia of the site. Famous for its wonderful frescoes, and a fine collection of ceramics and metalwork, it is no surprise that Knossos is one of the greatest treasures and provides remarkable insights into the life and technology of Bronze Age Greece.

To imbibe in Don’s knowledge and enthusiasm as he brings to life the story of the site, through even the tiniest of ceramic fragments, is a rare privilege.

Dr Don Evely holds an MA from the University of Edinburgh and a Doctorate of Philosophy from Oxford University.

Knossos: Past, Present and Future A town for all tastes: the eightmillennia-long story of this premier settlement in the East Mediterranean has something for everybody – in quantity and always in quality.

Through a series of vignettes, we will explore recent discoveries and research conducted at and through the holdings that the British School at Athens curates at Knossos. The smallest shard or an expensive cutting-edge technology can open up fresh vistas for thought: they may well solve old conundrums, but – and more often – they pose yet new questions. It keeps work at Knossos constantly on the move.

Monday 26 March, 6 – 8pm Time: Doors open at 6pm. Lecture commences at 6.45pm.

Venue: Art Gallery Theatrette (James St Mall entrance) Tickets: Members & ASA Clients $40/ Guests $50 (includes drinks and nibbles)

Wednesday 28 March, 11am – 1pm Venue: Art Gallery Theatrette (James St Mall entrance) Tickets: Members & ASA Clients $50/$60 (includes light lunch) BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL Contact the Friends office: +61 (8) 9492 6750 friends@artgallery.wa.gov.au

Photos Knossos, Crete. Courtesy of Kristen Hellstrom

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A Tale of Two Islands: Cyprus and Crete in the Bronze Age These, the two largest islands in the East Mediterranean, are not so dissimilar in their size, range of habitats and natural resources. Indeed Cyprus, with its abundant copper ores, is the more blessed of the pair in this last category.

In the Bronze Age, Crete produced the Minoans: complex, cultured and deserved contenders for global regard and admiration. Contemporary Cyprus is rather quaint and parochial in contrast. One society jelled into a palatial life-style, the other … did not!

Why is this so? Especially given that their later historical manifestations are far more comparable. We will compare the two … and look for clues.

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Of Memory & Suburbia Solo exhibitions of photography by Rebecca Dagnall (WA) and Bronek Kozka (VIC) have been announced as part of FotoFreo 2012, at the Turner Galleries. Preview

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elbourne based Bronek Kozka is interested in memory, how we see or perceive memories and remembered moments in time. He says his “photographs are on one level a representation of one person’s perspective of a remembered moment in time, but they also ask the viewer to re-connect with their own memories and share the commonalities, and to use the image as a springboard into their own history.”

He creates elaborate tableaux photographs, highly contrived installations and recreated spaces influenced by film sets and references, advertising, nondescript suburbia and Renaissance Italy. His actors inhabit these fictional spaces, playing out scenarios full of psychological tensions, yet there is a sense of melancholy, despair, and dislocation from each other. There is a vagueness to the images, like an old memory, where each person is an individual character portrait, dislocated from the actual moment. The viewer is unsure about what is unfolding and 22

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Top Bronek Kozka Kew house: dinner time 2008 Archival, pigment based digital print on paper 89 x 116 cm (image size) Edition of 10 Above Rebecca Dagnall There is unrest in the forest; there is trouble in the trees #9 Archival, pigment based digital print on paper 95cm x 173cm 2010-11

there is a disconcerting sense of voyeurism. Whose memories are these and what have we intruded upon?

Bronek worked as a commercial photographer before studying photography at RMIT in 2000, followed by an MA at RMIT in 2010.

He continues to work in both fields. He has exhibited extensively over the past 11 years, culminating with a major solo exhibition at the Australian Centre for Photography in September 2011.

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ike Bronek, Rebecca is also intrigued by memory. Her photographs are set in bush lands, quiet secluded areas that could be miles from the city, but are in fact close to where she grew up in Thornlie, right here in Perth.

Rebecca says of her work, “For the past eight years my work has been an exploration of suburbia. Inspired by the lived experience of this all too familiar space, my work has been a series of explorations into nostalgia and the real, the beauty and the banal, suburban iconography and the ongoing investigation into peoples’ relationships with their immediate surroundings.”

Her current series, There is unrest in the forest, there is trouble in the trees is an exploration of the iconography of evil and the sublime in the suburban

cultural realm. With the intention to create a ‘suburban aesthetic’ this work draws together elements of traditional landscape, fantasy poster art and the dark imagery of heavy metal culture.

These large-scale landscape photographs have been manipulated so that the mirrored backgrounds create evocative and haunting shapes.

Graduating in 2003, with Honours from Curtin University, Rebecca held her first solo exhibition at Turner Galleries in 2009 and since then has exhibited around Australia and internationally. She will have major solo exhibitions at the Queensland Centre for Photography in October, and the Australian Centre for Photography in Sydney in November. In 2011 the Art Gallery of Western Australia acquired a photograph from her 2009 series, Paradise in Suburbia.

Friends will have the opportunity to view the exhibition and to hear directly from the artists at this exclusive floor talk. Bronek is also part of the Turner Galleries’ Artist in Residence Programme, sponsored by the Turner Galleries’ Art Angels, with accommodation provided by the Central Institute of Technology.

Friends will be able to hear more about this inventive support for artists and the wonderful collecting opportunity it offers art collectors.

Book Now! FotoFreo at Turner Galleries Sunday 18 March, 3-5pm Northbridge Members $35/Guests $45 (includes drinks and nibbles)

FotoFreo is a month long biennial festival of photography that showcases the work of Australian photographers alongside leading photographers from Asia, Europe and the Americas.

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The exhibition programme will include the work of Raghu Rai and Australian photographers Rebecca Dagnall, Bronek Kozka, Eric Bridgeman, Murray Fredricks, Samantha Everton, Richard Simpkin, Wayne Quilliam, Petrina Hicks, Christopher Young and Tony Nathan.

In keeping with the Festival’s purpose of being a creator of cultural capital, two new photographic projects will be undertaken for 2012, one by Martin Parr and the other

by Western Australian photographer Bo Wong.

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The City of Fremantle Festival of Photography

17 March to 15 April, 2012

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Australian Decorative and Fine Arts Societies (ADFAS) – Monday Lecture Series 2012 Programme by Helen Smith

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he Association of Australian Decorative and Fine Arts Societies (ADFAS) is an association of 34 member societies that aims to celebrate, advance and promote the cultivation and study of decorative and fine arts and the preservation of our cultural and artistic heritage. ADFAS offers it’s members a series of informative lectures covering a broad range of subjects relating to art.

Venue: All ADFAS lectures are held at the Art Gallery Theatrette, unless otherwise stated. (James St Mall entrance) Time: Doors open for drinks and nibbles at 6pm. Lecture commences at 6.45pm for approximately one hour.

Tickets: Members $40/Guests $50

Monday 12 March 2012 HINDU ART, ARCHAEOLOGY AND MYTHOLOGY – Dr Michael O’Brien Former Consultant Neurologist at Guys & St Thomas’ Hospital, Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and Honourary Fellow of Medical Artists Association, Michael has a long held interest in early Hindu sculpture and architecture. His lecture will provide an account of the principal deities of the Hindu pantheon and associated legends as depicted in temple sculpture and the evolution of the Hindu temple from early caves and monoliths to the later richly decorated free standing temples.

Monday 7 May 2012 JENNIE CHURCHILL – Style Icon or Ambitious Seductress?

– Ms Annie Sebba Biographer, journalist and broadcaster Anne is the author of several books including her biography of Jennie

Churchill. Jennie was born in America but learnt the important lesson of dressing well as a teenager in Paris.

In 1874 aged 20 she married Lord Randolph Churchill and mistakenly thought she was making a glittering marriage. Instead, Jennie wrote plays, founded magazines, decorated and sold houses to maintain her lifestyle.

However, her greatest love and number one creative project throughout her lifetime remained her first son, Winston.

Monday 2 July 2012 GREAT TARTS IN ART – Ms Linda Smith Linda is an art historian with a special interest in British art and the art of the twentieth century. She is an accredited NADFAS lecturer and an experienced gallery guide, especially at Tate Britain and Tate Modern in London, where she works as a guide and lecturer. A mixture of art history

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The ADFAS aims to celebrate, advance and promote the cultivation and study of decorative and fine arts and the preservation of our cultural and artistic heritage. analysis and scandalous anecdote, this lecture examines the portraits and careers of some of history’s most notorious mistresses and courtesans.

It will chart the ambiguous attitudes of art and society to sexual morality and the representation of anonymous working girls in art from the 17th to 20th centuries. Many little nuances and hidden meanings in well-known works will be revealed!

Monday 6 August 2012 THE EMPEROR AND THE PROSTITUTE – Dr Geri Parlby Geri is a former Fleet Street journalist with an MA in Byzantine Art from the Courtauld Institute. Geri has lectured at Cambridge, Exeter and the University of Wales and is principal tutor on the Plymouth University/ NADFAS Art History foundation course. Her courses come with a health warning – be prepared for a visual roller coaster of information!

Geri’s lecture will centre on the most outrageous imperial couple in Byzantine history, Justinian and Theodora. Despite their unsavoury and destitute pasts they inspired some

of the most beautiful art, from the sublime mosaics of Ravenna and St Catherine’s monastery to the incredible architecture of Hagia Sophia.

Monday 3 September 2012 A VICTORIAN SPLENDOUR; The Golden Age of British Glass – Dr Charles Hajdamach Charles is a leading authority on glass having lectured in America, Canada, South Africa and Ireland. He is the author of British Glass 1800-1814 and British 20th Century Glass. Charles was Director of Dudley Museums and Art Galleries, Broadfield House Glass Museum and a Lecturer at Wolverhampton University.

Charles’ lecture will highlight one of the greatest periods in British glassmaking. The 19th century glassmakers created a kaleidoscope of shapes, colours and decorative techniques which far outstripped any other country for the sheer genius of their technical virtuosity and aesthetic sensibility. Images of the factories and working conditions, with portraits of the glassmakers and designers complete the view.

Monday 8 October 2012 LANCELOT ‘CAPABILITY’ BROWN AND HUMPHREY REPTON; English Landscape Garden Design in changing times 1738 – 1816 – Mr Keir Davidson Keir is a landscape designer with a special interest in Japanese Gardens and the Tea ceremony. He has lectured widely and published several titles including The Art of Zen Gardening.

His lecture will capture the period when Brown and Repton became regarded as the most important designers of the ‘English’ school of landscaping. Times of great uncertainty, followed by enormous social and economic change in Britain, saw Brown and Repton respond quite differently to the English landscape both moving towards something more uniquely and identifiably ‘English’.

This lecture uses images of plans, paintings and drawings as well as modern photographs to explore the different backgrounds, inspirations and styles of the two designers; and their importance reflected in a renewed popularity.

Shopping – Marie Antoinette Style

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he Friends and visitors are in for a treat with the beautiful Princely Treasures Store that Maria Gabriel has created on the second floor of the Gallery. Styled as ‘Versailles meets Kensington Palace’ complete with birdcages and Marie Antoinette’s fluffy lamb, the shop is brimming with exquisite exhibition inspired pieces including compacts, silk scarves, jigsaws, Marie Antoinette costume jewellery, Wedgwood and Limoges china and French stationery.

Maria will transform the exhibition shop for Christmas. A ‘vintage meets modern’ theme will brim with special gifts.

FREE Friends exclusive shopping event: Wednesday 23 November, 5.30 – 7pm.

RSVP by Monday 21 November.

Gift-wrapping, glass of champagne and a surprise gift for all attendees, with 10% off all merchandise during the event only.

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Event review: Open Studio – Peter Kendall Sunday 11 September

Claire Condry joined Friends to visit the studio of the renowned portrait artist.

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n Sunday 11 September Peter Kendall and his wife Lyn graciously hosted Friends at their home. After a lavish afternoon tea created by Mariana Atkins (those cakes!), Peter held us spellbound in his light filled studio with tales of the characters whose portraits he has painted over his long career; some well known and others just normal!

We learnt of Peter’s fascinating recent experiments with abstract work and shared something of his work as an illustrator; his book A Sausage Went For A Walk is the biggest selling children’s book in Australia!

A raconteur extraordinaire, Peter realised art was to be his career at the age of eight. His mother, also an artist, was delighted whilst his stepfather muttered darkly about getting a “proper job”.

The Friends were particularly taken with an exquisite portrait of Dianne Coxon that Peter had just completed.

The tonal qualities of her exquisite complexion and the intelligence of her demeanour shone forth from the Whistler frame, which Peter favours for his works.

Despite the hundreds of commissioned portraits he has painted, Peter says that if he meets someone who sparks his interest he will ask to paint them. Early in his career the artists Andrew Sibley and Fred Williams recognised his ability to connect with the sitter and capture the essence of the subjects character. They urged him to pursue ‘portraiture’; and it remains his abiding interest and passion.

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Peter uses an interesting device – he places a large mirror behind him as he works so the subject can see the work as it progresses. Rather than asking the subject to maintain a rigid pose, he engages them in conversation as he works. This contributes enormously to his knowledge of the person and invests a ‘magic’ to the work itself.

“I am interested in capturing the life of the person, rather than just an image of them”.

Merv Ashton, of the generations old Ashton Circus fame, recently visited Peter with his 92 year old father in tow and regaled him with tales of life on the road and the “never having lived in a house” constant touring. Merv wanted to include one of his miniature performing horses in his portrait.

Peter was delighted to comply and the be-feathered dapple-gray is a complete charmer. Peter’s passionate attention to detail is no more evident than in his inspired idea of recycling some Ashton Circus tent canvas. The big top was built in 1970 and the portrait’s canvas is patched together from remnants of the tent; Peter even bound the edges with rope and eyelets to suggest the idea of the big top. This work has been entered in the Archibald Prize.

Peter has twice been accepted as an entry for the Archibald with his well publicised portraits of boxer Danny Green and racing car driver the late Peter Brock. Brock described the

finished work as ”the greatest thing that has ever happened to me”.

Danny Green was similarly ‘blown away’ by his portrait and exclaimed “I’m standing here and yet I’m over there at the same time!” On their first meeting, Green did not possess the aura of strength that Peter expected, but on seeing him sparring in the ring at Sydney’s Raging Bull Gymnasium it was a different story; “In the ring he was a God”.

Peter describes himself as “more a drawer than a painter”, sketching constantly with notebooks everywhere.

He has recently become consumed with a new project, illustrating the Edward Lear poem The Owl and The Pussycat which he describes as “a real love story”.

The illustrations are a stark contrast to his portraiture, both in technique and style, much more abstract but equally interesting. He hopes they will be published.

I close with what I thought was an interesting perspective from the man himself; “Early on I grew tired with painting realistic scenes; why duplicate the universe? My idea is to create another universe out of my mind and place it in the real universe. It is the artist who can change the view.”

Top left Peter Kendall, Twilight, oil on canvas,122cm x 152cm. © the artist Top right Maxine Murray, Friend, in Peter Kendall’s studio

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Workshops for Children New Gallery Workshops Join the Art Gallery’s Educators for a new program of extended workshops for 9-16 year olds during the school holidays. These workshops are designed for students who are enthusiastic about art and interested in developing their skills in the creative, stimulating environment of the Gallery.

Program 1 – suitable for ages: 13-16 years Cost for each two-day session: $77 per child (includes GST, morning tea and all materials) Urban art – new materials and techniques Monday 9 and Wednesday 11 January 2012, 10am-1pm Printmaking NOW! Thursday 12 and Friday 13 January 2012, 10am-1pm Program 2 – suitable for ages: 9-12 years Cost for each one-day session: $38.50 per child (includes GST, morning tea and all materials) Adventures in 3D Monday 16 or Wednesday 18 January 2012, 10am-1pm Painting in perspective Thursday 19 or Friday 20 January 2012, 10am-1pm BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL For bookings and further information Contact Sue Way 08 9492 6644 educate@artgallery.wa.gov.au Workshop topics may be subject to change, depending on current gallery exhibitions.

Bookings and pre-payment are essential. Bookings not confirmed until payment received. No refunds. Substitutes accepted.

Spare Parts Puppetry

FREE

Join the Spare Parts Puppeteers in a puppetry performance workshop never seen before.

Suitable for 5-12 year olds, these workshops are free, at the “Friends of AGWA Children’s Activity Space”, with no bookings required; proudly supported by Lotterywest.

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pare parts puppet makers Sanjiva Margio and Leon Hendroff have crafted a cast of exquisite Sicilian style marionettes for a puppetry performance workshop never seen before. The workshops will focus on simple story making skills using a baroque style puppet booth and the beautifully made marionettes.

The Queen, the King, the brave Soldier and, of course, an evil Witch are just some of the characters that will be brought to life in this magical workshop for kids.

Spare Parts performers will guide children through the process of creating their very own marionette performance.

These skilled artists work from the premise that play is the essential key to discovering the puppeteer in us all.

Spare Parts Puppetry – Performing with Marionettes FREE Children’s workshops Suitable for ages 5-12.

Duration: 90 minutes. Limited places in small groups.

No bookings required.

Times: 10 – 11.30am / 12 noon – 1.30pm / 2 – 3.30pm November: Saturdays 5, 12, 19 December: Thursdays 15 and 22, Fridays 16 and 23 Saturday 17, Wednesday 21 January: Thursday 5, Friday 6, Saturday 7

Top right Leon Hendroff hand-crafted the heads and limbs for the marionettes.

Courtesy of Spare Parts Puppet Theatre.

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Calendar

Diary dates at a glance

2011 Wednesday 2 November Masterclass Talk: Looking After Your Treasures (princely or not)/Vanessa Wiggin Friday 4 November Masterclass Talk: Power & Glory/ Susan Broomhall Sunday 6 November Princely Treasures Film – National Trust Gardens/Prof Sue Geddes-Page ❤ Wednesday 9 November Masterclass Talk: The Evolution of Baroque Rome and the Heritage of the Circulating City/Prof Richard Read Friday 11 November Masterclass Talk: Great Personalities of the Times/Geoffrey Bolton Saturday 12 November Historic Tours @ AGWA Sunday 13 November Open House Art Show – Audrey Welch ❤ Heritage LegoArt Event @ AGWA Monday 14 November 2011 Princely Treasures Film & Talk: Peter Paul Rubens/Melissa Harpley ❤

2012 Friday 18 November Masterclass Talk: Passion for the Antique: Sex, Lies and Theft in late 18th Century Europe/Dr Gerard Vaughan Wednesday 23 November Princely Treasures Store – Shopping for Friends ❤ Foundation AGM and End of Year Celebration Sunday 27 November Studio Visit: Nigel Hewitt ❤ Monday 5 December 2011 Princely Treasures Film & Talk: Catherine the Great of Russia/Alan Dodge ❤ Sunday 11 December Friend’s Christmas Party ❤ Saturday 17 December Tom Malone Prize opens Monday 19 December WA Indigenous Art Awards 2011 closes Friday 23 December Friends’ office closes

Monday 9 January Princely Treasures closes Wednesday 11 January Friends’ office opens Monday 16 January Year 12 Perspectives opens Saturday 21 January MHF20: Exhibition Tour and Floor Talk ❤ Sunday 5 February Artsource Studios ❤ Sunday 4 March Sculpture By The Sea ❤ Monday 12 March Friends’ AGM, 5pm ❤ ADFAS: Hindu Art, Archaeology and Mythology ❤ Sunday 18 March Fotofreo at Turner Galleries ❤ Vast: North West Landscapes closes Monday 26 March ASA International Scholars Series: Knossos: Past, Present and Future/ Dr Don Evely ❤ Wednesday 28 March ASA International Scholars Series: A Tale of Two Islands: Cyprus and Crete in the Bronze Age/Dr Don Evely ❤

Top Sally Garbori, Thundi 2010 State Art Collection, Art Gallery of Western Australia Purchased through the TomorrowFund and The Leah Jane Cohen Bequest, Art Gallery of Western Australia Foundation, 2011 © Sally Gabori, 2010

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❤ signals that it is a Friends’ event

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What’s On

A selection of local exhibitions & art events EXTRAORDINARY STORIES: from The British Museum Western Australian Museum, Perth 25 October 2011 – 5 February 2012 W: museum.wa.gov.au LOTTERYWEST FESTIVAL FILMS Somerville Auditorium 28 November 2011 – 15 April 2012 W: perthfestival.com.au PERTH INTERNATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL 2012 10 February – 3 March 2012 W: perthfestival.com.au SCULPTURE BY THE SEA, COTTESLOE 1 – 19 March 2012 W: sculpturebythesea.com FOTOFREO The City of Fremantle Festival of Photography 17 March – 15 April 2012 W: fotofreo.com CITY OF ALBANY ART PRIZE Vancouver Arts Centre, Albany 31 March – 22 April 2012 W: albanyartprize.com.au

Galleries BURATTI FINE ART 222 Queen Victoria Street, North Fremantle 6159 W: buratti.com.au T: 08 9433 6369 Open: Wed – Sat 10am – 6pm BERNARD OLLIS – New Works 21 October – 15 November 2011 PETER KENDALL – New Works 18 November – 22 December 2011 WENDY SHARPE 16 March – 18 April 2012 FREMANTLE ARTS CENTRE 1 Finnerty St, Fremantle 6160 W: fac.org.au T: 08 9432 9555 Open 10am – 5pm, 7 days FREMANTLE ARTS CENTRE PRINT AWARD 2011. SUPPORTED BY LITTLE CREATURES BREWING 24 September – 20 November MHF20: MARK HOWLETT FOUNDATION 26 November – 22 January SPACED – ART OUT OF PLACE 4 February – 11 March Top right Matt McVeigh, Ascension, Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe 2011 Cedar Timber, PVC Sheeting, Coloured acrylic rod, steel, clear Perspex.

100cm (high) 100cm (wide) 250cm (deep)

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GALERIE DÜSSELDORF 9 Glyde Street, Mosman Park 6012 W: galeriedusseldorf.com.au T: 08 9384 0890 Open: Wed – Fri 11am – 5pm, Sun 2 – 5pm BRENDAN VAN HEK: As if from a distance I could already see myself 16 October – 13 November 2011 MARK PARFITT: Anyday Now 27 November – 23 December 2011 GALLERY EAST 94 Stirling Highway, North Fremantle 6159 W: galleryeast.com.au T: 08 9336 6231 Open: Tue – Sat 11am – 5pm, Sun 2 – 5pm BETWEEN THE SHEETS: Artists’ Books 15 January – 5 February 2012 CHRISTINE ATKINS: Sculptural Works 10 Feb – 4 March 2012 NEW WORKS NEW FACES 9 March – 1 April 2012 GREENHILL GALLERIES 6 Gugeri Street, Claremont 6010 W: greenhillgalleries.com T: 08 9383 4433 Open: Tue – Fri 10am – 5pm, Sat 10am – 4pm ANGUS McDONALD: Recent Paintings and Drawings 18 November – 3 December 2011 MATTHEW JOHNSON: New Works 17 February – 3 March 2012 ANNETTE BEZOR: New Works 16 March – 31 March 2012

GUNYULGUP GALLERIES Gunyulgup Valley Drive, Yallingup 6282 W: gunyulgupgalleries.com.au T: 08 9755 2177 Open 10am – 5pm, 7 days MICHAEL VINCENT MURPHY (recent paintings); PETER BOWLES & ANNE CLIFTON (new glass work) 5 – 20 November 2011 LESLEY MEANEY (paintings); DAVID HAY (glass) January 2012 PETER USHER (paintings); RICK COOK (glass) March 2012 HEATHCOTE MUSEUM & GALLERY 58-60 Duncraig Road, Applecross W: melvillecity.com.au/facilities/museums/ heathcote T: 08 9364 5666 Open: Tue – Fri 10am – 3pm; Sat – Sun 12 – 4pm; Closed Mon & public hols CAROL WELLS: Local Gravity: unknown architecture 5 October – 5 November 2011 TOM MÙLLER: Tilt 2011 – Capital City 12 November – 18 December 2011

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Galleries NEW OK GALLERY 5/1 Forbes Road, Northbridge 6003 W: oktachoron.com T: 08 6142 1215 Open: Tue – Fri 11am – 6pm, Sat/Sun 12 – 5pm, Closed Mon. SEE SOUNDS: BEN BARRETTO 4 November – 4 December WILDERNESS YEARS 9 – 23 December DAVID EGAN 15 February – 16 March PERTH GALLERIES 92 Stirling Highway, North Fremantle 6159 W: perthgalleries.com.au T: 08 9433 4414 Open Tue – Fri 10am – 5pm, Sat 11am – 5pm, Sun 2 – 5pm (Closed 14 Dec – 1 Feb) BELA KOTAI: Ritornello 21 Oct – 13 Nov 2011 HOLLY GRACE: Crossing 18 Nov – 11 Dec 2011 THE WINDOW AND THE DOOR 10 Feb – 4 Mar 2012 TURNER GALLERIES 470 William St, Northbridge 6003 W: turnergalleries.com.au T: 08 9227 1077 Open: Tue – Sat 11am – 5pm GROUP Exhibition from Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town 18 November – 16 December 2011 MATTHEW HUNT 3 February – 9 March 2012 BRONEK KOZKA, REBECCA DAGNALL: Two Solo Exhibitions for Fotofreo 9 March – 7 April 2012

Interstate & International Exhibitions, Art Fairs & Biennales INTERSTATE Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi, Sydney 27 October – 13 November, 2011 W: sculpturebythesea.com GoMA Turns 5 Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Queensland November 2011 – March 2012 A program of exhibitions and events to mark this milestone, including Ron Mueck, Yayoi Kusama, Threads: Contemporary Textiles, Matisse: Drawing Life, and Perth artists Pip&Pop create an immersive environment for children and families.

W: qag.qld.gov.au Picasso: masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso, Paris Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 12 November 2011 – 25 March 2012 W: artgallery.nsw.gov.au

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Yalangbara: art of the Djang’kawu Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory, Darwin 25 November 2011 – 17 June 2012 W: nt.gov.au

Diego Rivera: Murals for The Museum of Modern Art MOMA, New York, USA 13 November 2011 – 14 May 2012 W: moma.org

Renaissance: 15th & 16th Century Italian Paintings from the Accademia Carrara, Bergamo National Gallery of Australia, Canberra 9 December 2011 – 9 April 2012 W: nga.gov.au

Colour and Line: Turner’s Experiments TATE Britain, London, UK 2 May 2007 – 30 April 2012 W: tate.org.uk/Britain INTERNATIONAL ART FAIRS & BIENNALES

Wim Delvoye MONA – Museum of Old and New Art Hobart, Tasmania 10 December 2011 – 26 March 2012 W: mona.net.au

La Biennale di Venezia 54th International Art Exhibition – ILLUMInations 4 June – 27 November 2011 W: labiennale.org

18th Biennale Of Sydney 27 June – 16 September 2012 W: biennaleofsydney.com.au

ARTSTAGE Singapore Marina Bay Sands Exhibition and Convention Centre, Singapore 12-15 January 2012 W: artstagesingapore.com

Melbourne Art Fair 1-5 August 2012 W: artfair.com.au INTERNATIONAL

India Art Fair NSIC Exhibition Grounds, New Delhi 25-29 January 2012 W: indiaartfair.in

Amanda Heng: Speak To Me, Walk With Me Singapore Art Museum 8Q 7 October 2011 – 1 January 2012 W: singaporeartmuseum.sg

ARCO Madrid Feria de Madrid, Spain 15-19 February 2012 W: ifema.es/ferias/arco/default_i.html

Maurizio Cattelan: All Guggenheim, New York, USA 4 November 2011 – 22 January 2012 W: guggenheim.org

The Armory Show – Contemporary Pier 94, New York, USA 8-11 March 2012 W: thearmoryshow.com

Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan The National Gallery, London, UK 9 November 2011 – 5 February 2012 W: nationalgallery.org.uk

Art Dubai Madinat Arena, Dubai, UAE 21-24 March 2012 W: artdubai.ae

Visiting The Art Gallery of Western Australia The Gallery is easily accessed on foot, by car, train, bus, bicycle or taxi. It is located in Northbridge at the Perth Cultural Centre, adjacent to the central Perth Train Station and a five minute walk from the CBD. Opening Hours Normal opening hours are 10am-5pm WednesdayMonday. Except for Friday Nights Rule when we are open until 9pm every Friday for the duration of the Princely Treasures exhibition.

We are closed on Tuesdays, as well as Good Friday, ANZAC Day and Christmas Day. Parking General car parking is available within the Perth Cultural Centre precinct. The closest ACROD accessible parking with lift access is located at the Cultural Centre, State Library and Citiplace car parks. www.artfriends.com.au

Entry Fees Admission to the Gallery is free; however a small donation as you depart really makes a difference. Special exhibitions such as Princely Treasures require an admission fee (discounts apply).

Families A parents’ room is situated in the main concourse, to the right of the central staircase.

Food You may not eat or drink in the Galleries, but there is a café at the Gallery main entrance. High chairs are provided for young children. Visitors can also picnic in the Perth Cultural Centre precinct, outside the Gallery.

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art gallery of western australia presents great collections of the world

THIS EXHIBITION

RULES exclusive to Perth and drawn from the magnificent collections of the Victoria and albert Museum in london, Princely Treasures showcases objects and artefacts once owned by the rulers of europe, the powerful and the elite. see for yourself impressive examples of their sculptures, paintings, jewellery and tapestry, as well as furniture, fashion, religious artefacts and weaponry.

Now on at the Art Gallery of WA. For admission fees and opening times visit greatcollections.com.au Attributed to Hubert Le Sueur Statue of Henry IV of France (1553 – 1610) on Horseback trampling his enemy Paris, c. 1620-5. cast bronze. ©Victoria and albert Museum / V&a images.

PRINCELY TREASURES European Masterpieces 1600 – 1800 from the Victoria and Albert Museum

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exhibition organised by the Victoria and albert Museum, london.