The West Australian Pulse 2026

Celebrating thirty-four years and featuring sixty-three works by 2025 Year 12 Visual Arts graduates from forty-three schools across Western Australia, works showcased provide insight into young people’s private, social, and artistic concerns. Themes range from self-identity – including cultural intersections, mental health, neurodiversity, and sexuality – through to environmental concern, racial and societal inequality, processing loss, and social pressures of conforming and performing through school and beyond – the works gauging the pulse of young people who will influence, empower, and shape the world we live in. The Art Gallery of Western Australia 16 May to 13 September 2026 Western…