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A picture of around 10 different Aboriginal art paintings hanging on a gallery wall showing four gallery attendees of different ages and genders looking at them.
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'Revealed' revelation – Aboriginal art fair enters important new partnership

After 10 successful years at Fremantle Arts Centre, WA’s most prominent exhibition and art market for emerging WA Aboriginal artists…

Esther Forest, ‘The Pet Shop’, 2023 single channel video with audio, on view at 2024 Hatched National Graduate Show at PICA. Photo: Courtesy of the artist. Still from a video work featuring a cartoonish figure on the phone in a room with blue and purple lighting, filled with posters of animals.
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Which graduate artists have got their fingers on the pulse?

Over 20 graduate artists are showing the critical topics they have chosen to engage with at PICA’s 2024 Hatched: National…

A white woman stands in front of a massive projection of herself in which she is pointing with her index finger in close up to the camera. Sarah Aiken. PICA
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Dance review: Make Your Life Count, PICA

An ambitious solo work that incorporates video and text.

arts signage: street view of PICA (Perth Contemporary Arts Space) showing a large green sign saying "Art Lives Here".
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Why hide your light under a bushel? Lessons in signage for arts spaces

The power of art often lies in its subtleties, but when it comes to promoting your arts space, the opposite…

David Attwood, ‘Post New Hoover Magic Stick and Hoover Aura II’, 2023. Hoover Magic Stick vacuum, Hoover Aura II vacuum, fluorescent lights, acrylic. Photo: ArtDoc, courtesy of the artist. A white wall gallery displaying artworks that appear to be household vacuums.
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Sculptor David Attwood on our obsession with domestic maintenance

ArtsHub speaks with David Attwood, a 2024 Hyper Local artist-in-residence at PICA, on the ideas that inspire his work.

PICA. Bunuru. First Nations commission by J D Penangke will be unveiled for PICA’s new entrance while under redevelopment. Photo: Supplied.
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PICA adapting program to revamp

While redevelopments are underway, PICA unveils its first 2024 program, Bunuru, with new commissions and a solo show of pioneering…

At the End of the Land. Image is a swirling blue haze with a black circle in the middle in which stands a woman with black top and shoulder length hair.
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Performance Review: At the End of the Land, PICA Performance Space, WA

A non-linear and Lynchian solo performance, with visual and aural extravagances.

Image is of a person watching a screen on which two women in China are drinking tea at a table in front of a glass and wood cabinet that contains artefacts and books.
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Exhibition review: Djilba/Kambarang season, PICA

Three concurrent exhibitions from Wu Tsang, Sriwhana Spong and Sancintya Mohini Simpson at Perth Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA).

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Performance review: Two, PICA Performance Space, WA

A joyful collaboration between dance and tabla drumming.

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New wave of creative talent in the spotlight

A national graduate show and a 24-hour play development marathon bring all the excitement of new talent to WA.

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