Mari Funaki is one of Australia’s leading jewellers. This exhibition celebrates her considerable achievements between 1992 and the present day. Her first major show in a state gallery, it includes nearly fifty works and will be the first time Perth audiences have seen her work in such depth. Many of these are new works produced especially for this show.

Picture: 'Container' by Mari Funaki, 2006

THING beware the material world is a bold new exhibition of furniture,
lighting, sculpture, moving-image and photography from across the globe. The exhibition celebrates the human impulse to shape and re-shape the world around us. It includes works made from a range of processes including hi-tech machining, creative recycling and delicate handcrafting.

Picture: 'Burstlight' by Korban/Flaubert, 2006

David Walker: Anatomy of the object traces the artist’s past and current
practice and, as such, will include works from his student days to new
works made specifically for this exhibition. Initially trained in silversmithing, ceramics and industrial design in Manchester, England, Walker turned to jewellery making after arriving in Perth in 1964, and made an immediate and enduring impact on the local, and later national and international, craft and design fields as artist, craftsman, educator and mentor.

Picture: David Walker

The unique paintings of Indigenous artists from the South-West of WA have been overlooked and under-appreciated in the present flourishing renaissance of Australian Aboriginal art. Mainly landscapes, they have a surreal, spiritual longing for an Arcadian past.

Image: Shane Pickett (represented by Indigenart - Mossenson Galleries)

A set of portraits showcasing 61 important Australian painters including WA’s Robert Juniper, Julie Dowling and Michael Iwanoff. Each artist is depicted in their studio set amongst their work which ranges from abstraction to the most exacting realism.

Picture: Robert Juniper taken by R.Ian Lloyd (detail)

These powerful iconic images taken from history and contemporary culture form combinations that will intrigue the viewer. Hummerston plays individual elements off against each other to create paradoxes which pose questions as to the nature of representation and its application in our daily lives.

Picture: 'East and West' by Harry Hummerston

Go behind the music and into Nick’s imagination and the sources of his unique vision through original lyrics, notebooks, artwork photography and books. There will also be objects from the musicians own library and office, and rare and previously unavailable video and documentary footage.

Photograph by Polly Borland, Original painting by Tony Clark,
Commissioned by the Arts Centre in 2007.