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Clare Peake, 'A Comprehension of the Farthest Points...

Aurora Peralta · May 16, 2013

Venn is one gallery I could be happy in forever. When I go there I feel a strange sense of calm, like the space is meditating on my behalf. If Venn were a gu...

Teelah George, 'Meatworks Mens Qtrs'

Alex Griffin · May 1, 2013

I don’t know what comes to mind for you when I say ‘conventional meatworks’, but the Vestey’s Freezer Works was anything but run of the mill. Out in remote W...

Various Artists, 'Hideous Beauty'

Danielle Marsland · April 26, 2013

Hands down the busiest dudes in Perth this weekend will Alex Miller and J'aime Fazackerley, two local creatives/skaters (working as Little Wing) that hav...

Various, 'Hatched' 2013

Alex Griffin · April 18, 2013

That’s what I love about Hatched, man - I keep getting older, but it still stays the same. Though PICA’s annual graduate show is now in its twenty-second yea...

Sally Ann Rowland, 'Bums on Stars'

Alex Griffin · April 11, 2013

Since we’re going to be dealing with clichés here, I’ll start off with one close to home: lazy internet journalism. As nine out of ten Google users will atte...

Various Artists, 'Drawn From Sound'

Alex Griffin · April 4, 2013

If you picked up recorder in primary school and cut your losses there, it’s time to forget everything you know about good boys deserving fruit all over again...

Tom Freeman, 'Formative’

Alex Griffin · March 28, 2013

Formative experiences happen in libraries all the time, man, either in figuring out what exactly the cow jumped over, or gasping slackly at Raskolnikov gaspi...

Emma McPike, 'We Know What You’d Rather Be Doing'

Kate Mullen · March 14, 2013

McPike’s new body of staple-intricate, collage and print works incite a biting reminder that another summer is fading, as the artist takes an intimate and li...

Ariane Palassis, ‘Journey and Darkness’

Alex Griffin · February 28, 2013

Architects, hey? Wish I was an architect. How many folks can confidently say that they can get a minaret happening? How about a lesene? If that wasn’t enough...

Srinivas Krishna, 'My Name Is Raj'

Danielle Marsland · February 21, 2013

Film mogul Raj Kapoor is revered not only in India, but all over the globe, for the epic box office smashes he put out during the Golden Age of Indian cinema...

Ross Manning, 'Volumes'

Derek Houg · February 13, 2013

Everybody has that enduring childhood memory of mixing together all the paint in the Kraft Korner only to discover that the resulting brown-gray sludge looke...

Alex Maciver, 'I May Live On As A Ghost'

Derek Houg · February 6, 2013

Ghost rules are weird. Bill Cosby couldn't speak at first. Devon Sawa lost all his memories. Swayze was totally invisible. Come on guys, get some canon h...

Derek Houg · January 29, 2013

Grazia Toderi's video artworks occupy an aesthetic space somewhere in between the experimental documentaries of Godfrey Reggio and the nocturnal Los Ange...

Gemma Weston, 'Signals'

Derek Houg · January 22, 2013

Between 1976 and 1989, a mysterious signal would appear occasionally on shortwave radio bands. It manifested as a a repeating staccato tap, interrupting sche...

Abdul Abdullah, Casey Ayres and Nathan Beard, 'Inter...

Derek Houg · January 15, 2013

Interregna are the periods of time where a throne is vacant between the death of one monarch and the reign of a successor. They are times for watchful waitin...

LOOK End of the Year Roundup

Derek Houg · December 19, 2012

The last half of December can be a bit of a dry spell for the arts. Plenty of folks close up shop for a bit of a vacay and won't return to hawk culture a...

Twenty Eleven, 'Kings, Crooks, Castles'

Callum Twigger · December 6, 2012

Last week saw the city welcome a new ARI, this week Freo welcomes a space run by the busy gang at Feast Your Eyes. First off the plank is local artist Twenty...

Various Artists, 'Synecdoches'

Alex Griffin · November 29, 2012

Space, as physics would have it, is always expanding; art spaces take a little more TLC than that. Moana Chambers is the newest collaborative creative space ...

Various, 'Ornaments of Language'

Derek Houg · November 22, 2012

Writers used to worry about things like worn out nouns and lacklustre verbs, but then we invented ornamental language. With it we can hang trinkets of concep...

Matt Doust, 'Unravel'

Callum Twigger · November 14, 2012

The first impression I took from the immense oil portraits in Matt Doust's Unravel was that the figure in each portrait has been deprived of a particular...

Andy Quilty, 'FIFO'

Callum Twigger · November 8, 2012

Asking “does anybody actually know a FIFO” is not an inane rhetorical question. They're supposed to be the working class heart that pumps wea...

Various, 'SoDA12'

Us · November 7, 2012

It's been a great year for early career contemporary artists residing in Perth. Local artist run platform OK Gallery has hosted a number of first-rate ex...

Casey Ayres, 'Tunc'

Kate Mullen · October 31, 2012

When isolated, the word Tunc - a Latin term for ‘then’ - remains blissfully equivocal as to what tense it’s intended to denote. Does local artist Casey Ayres...

Various Artists, 'Let's Go, Magic Weirdos'

Callum Twigger · October 24, 2012

Drawing is older than writing. In fact, drawings were probably the basis of the super-primitive alphabets that eventually evolved into written language. Ever...

Rina Frieberg, 'Rrah#23'

Danielle Marsland · October 24, 2012

How amazing are people that can just make art everywhere they go, out of anything that’s handy? You leave them sitting under a tree for five minutes, then yo...

'Mosaic - 24 hours of life in Perth'

Steph Kretowicz · October 10, 2012

Attention all people who watch gigs through their cameraphones, Instagram their lunches, and think a life unrecorded is a life unlived: Propel Arts wants YOU...

Fremantle Portrait Prize 2012

Callum Twigger · October 3, 2012

Facebook teaches the art of portraiture indirectly. Take a person, truncate them into two dimensions, reduce the complexity of their day-to-day existence int...

'Now&Then12' Symposium

Derek Houg · September 26, 2012

Business terminology has never been my strong suit, but I think that what OK Gallery has been doing lately is called diversification. Not content with the st...