Congratulations to the winners of The Lester Prize 2023, Western Australia's premier portrait prize with an increased prize pool of more than $115,000....
The Lester Prize 2023 winners announced
Tag Archives: Art Gallery of Western Australia
Against The Odds
Against The Odds celebrates the work of women artists held in the State Art Collection with a focus on art made in the 1950s in Australia by over thirty of Maudsley’s contemporaries....
Yoshitomo Nara: Reach Out to The Moon, Even If We Can’t
Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara’s first Australian solo exhibition brings together major sculptural works alongside paintings, drawings, ceramics, and photography spanning 2011–2022....
Farah Al Qasimi: Star Machine
'Star Machine', an installation of photography and video featuring key works from 2017 to 2021, offers an intimate inquiry into how spaces and subjectivities inflect and influence each other....
The Cost of Living
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 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....