This collection display explores how understandings and misunderstandings of value shape art and everyday life and impact how we relate to each other physically, emotionally, and economically....
The Cost of Living
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The Lester Prize People’s Choice | 2022 winner
". . . we felt desperate to throw off masks and gulp fresh, untainted air." – Sarah Anthony's' Breathe' is The Lester Prize's 2022 People Choice recipient....
Nadia Hernández and Jon Campbell: Speech Patterns
'Speech Patterns' is an entwined and layered conversation between the work of contemporary artists Nadia Hernández and Jon Campbell....
Media-Space 1981–1986: challenging fictions of cultural identity
This exhibition presents documentation of the multi-disciplinary projects undertaken by Perth-based art collective Media-Space across its life-span, 1981–1986....
Tom Malone Prize
The showcase highlights the beauty and versatility of glass as a sculptural medium and shines a light on the technical and innovative skills of artists working in the field....
2022 Tom Malone Prize winner announced
Tim Edwards' winning work "is a piece that is heavily and gradually laboured yet brilliantly fresh and light. Its quietness is alive and wonderfully of this moment," said the judges....
Tracks We Share: Contemporary Art of the Pilbara
Celebrating the Aboriginal art of Western Australia’s Pilbara region by showcasing over 190 artworks by more than seventy artists....
Ever Present: First Peoples Art of Australia
'Ever Present: First Peoples Art of Australia' surveys historical and contemporary works by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists from across Australia....
The View From Here
‘The View From Here’, is a celebration of art, culture, and creativity, presenting 30 major new commissions, exhibitions and acquisitions by leading Western Australian artists and creatives....
2021 The Lester Prize winners
Congratulations to the winners of The Lester Prize 2021, Western Australia's premier portrait prize that is now in its 15th year and has a prize pool of more than $100,000....
The Lester Prize
‘The Lester Prize exhibits all our traits – the heroic, the despicable, the humble, the deplorable, the principled and the fallen.’...
40 finalists, WA’s premier portrait prize – The Lester Prize
Congratulations to all 40 finalists selected for Western Australia's premier portrait prize – The Lester Prize whose works depict an Australian, or Australians, that they respect or admire, or a self-portrait....