Mundaring Arts Centre Inc. launches the 2024 program with an exhibition showcasing the distinctive language of drawing by four eminent Western Australian artists, George Haynes, Merrick Belyea, Nic Compton and Ric Spencer.
Una Bell
The arts practice of local Landcare advocate and Herbarium Research Associate, Una Bell, has developed into a pictographic language of endemic flora and fauna from particular sites. In this exhibition, she draws on the ancient pictograph of the Tree of Life, with the imagery in her paintings and lino prints becoming species lists that catalogue the ecology of the Darling scarp.
Drawing Space is an exhibition of works on paper that provides an experience of viewing that’s unhindered by narrative. Each work depicts a sphere, or spheres, and a horizon line only, and they, along with the marks of the medium, become the tools with which to negotiate the complexities of space, time and the emotive power of colour and image. Conventional means with which to apply narrative are negated leaving nothing but a pure experience of what is before, the material substance of the work.
Inspired by the encounter and exchange of deep time, geological forces, and the Anthropocene, Underfoot artists work collaboratively to adapt craft knowledge through the practice of slow-making.
During their residency, witness the transformation from white box gallery to an experiential space of conversations and exchange for their IOTA24 exhibition, Mélange, opening at MAC in July.
The Language of Colour showcases works inspired by the power of colour to communicate emotions, ideas, and narratives through art. Seventy-eight artists celebrate the richness and diversity of their arts practice, and the cultural expression colours incite.
Slow-making is taking time to notice and to care for people, place and the materials of making. To cultivate is to care for, nurture and encourage the complex relationships between people, plants, animals and the soils that sustain all of us on Earth.
Showcasing recent WA arts graduates, this exhibition highlights their mastery of materials and transformative influence on tradition through contemporary learning.
Barbara Gell captures feelings and impressions of being in the Perth hills’ Whistlepipe Gully, and a sense of place through her paintings and drawings. Geometric structure forms the scaffolding on which a variety of marks reintroduce the tangle of natural forms. Gell’s work is centred around the push and pull of chaos and order.
Artists Shelley Cowper, Haya Hagit Cohen and Elmari Steyn explore the intricate ties between place, space, feelings and emotions, where the heart and mind work together to construct a spiritual connection to place; communicating this through traditional printmaking techniques and mixed media works.
Curated by Sue Starcken
Altered States is a survey of work by seminal artist Stuart Elliott comprised of four distinct yet compellingly connected parts developed through ‘Fakeological’ readings of cultural and historical artefacts and their circumstances. The exhibition showcases over 80 of Elliott’s artworks, including new pieces and significant works loaned from public and private collections.
In 2022, Cultivate invited entrants to create new photographic works that responded to the notion of cultivation, encompassing ideas, place and flora. 36 photographs were short-listed and are displayed in a public art exhibition at Boya Community Centre.
Transpositional celebrates the interdisciplinary arts practice of partners in life, artists Hans Arkeveld and Joan Johnson. With arts careers spanning decades and the use of vastly different materials, this exhibition highlights poignant recurring personal and societal themes. Significantly, they are linked by their exploration of the iconic, historically loaded symbol – the wheel.
The Sum of Us celebrates the work of a group of students brought together by a botanical art course in Perth with artist and fellow student Margaret Oversby. The group continued to meet after the course, allowing the pursuit of their passion and exploration of various styles of botanical art.
Annette Peterson reinterprets her dad’s memories of life at Parkerville Children’s Home in the 1950s through a series of ‘en plein air’ paintings. Her dad’s story emerges through her work, his emotive response intersecting with her own.
Supported by Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries
Through transformative processes, this group of emerging artists take the printmaker’s craft beyond tradition, revealing outcomes using non-traditional materials, scales and forms, following chance revelations and surprising serendipities into an expanded practice.
Curated By Sharyn Egan & André Lipscombe
The 2022 Shire of Mundaring Open Art Acquisition exhibition features artists with a continuing connection to Mundaring and its country. Selected works reflect and explore materials, themes and cultural relationships to and about the natural world.
The rhythm of walking, the quiet time alone, and the reflective space this provides are central to this collaborative body of work by Anne Williams and Louise Wells. It’s a Matter of How You Look at Things arose from expanding their observations and taking inspiration from the small, often-overlooked elements of their respective communities.
For many years, John Eden has explored the Perth Hills on his bike. Wherever John goes, he finds evidence of the movements and activities of others who have gone before him. These ‘landmarks’, punctuating the landscape, fascinate him with their unknowable, but partly guessable, histories. The places he brings you to through his work include Mahogany Creek’s car graveyard, Sir Paul Hasluck’s abandoned swimming pool, and the former Barton’s Mill Prison.
The Reconnect Photography Project , a partnership project between the Shire of Mundaring, Mundaring Camera Club and Mundaring Arts Centre Inc., is designed to encourage the local community to share their skills and the wonderful place in which they live.
“The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago, but the second-best time is now”. This old proverb is a reminder of the short and long-term benefits of time spent in nature. MAC Inc. members have been invited to reflect on their relationship to caring for and cultivating the natural environment in this juried exhibition.
A new body of work by multidisciplinary artist Tineke Van der Eecken explores the fibres of flora, fauna, and human systems in her show Tributaries. She presents jewellery, small fine metal sculptures, and biological objects formed by corrosion casting, alongside arresting photographic images that represent the life and death thrum of fragile arterial systems: root, river, skeleton, and vein.
Curated by Sandra Murray
A crucial figure in the development of contemporary fibre sculpture in Australia over four decades, Nalda Searles shares her extraordinary approach to craft. Finders Keepers showcases new and past works, demonstrating Searles’ role as the instigator of an innovative art movement utilising Australian plant fibre and found objects.
Food for Thought has seen community members come together to share food, skills and conversations about food culture through art. This exhibition showcases work created between master artists and the local community that are a tangible telling of our relationship with food and its influence in our lives.
A response to the conflict between development and community wellbeing, Michelle Campbell’s solo exhibition investigates the psychological impact of the changing urban landscape. Through painting Campbell explores personal connections to homes and suburbs as extensions to a sense of self.
Celebrating the role of the Shire of Mundaring Art Collection as a record and resource for the Mundaring community, Safe Keeping presents a perspective from local artists on the recent global forced retreat from public spaces and the importance of community networks.
Discover the artists behind the Food for Thought project as they work in residence, creating new work and sharing their skills and with others through a series of appetising workshops. A selection of ceramic, textile and timber vessels by participating artists will also be available on display and available for sale.
Using textiles to explore the visual language of urban architectural facades, Vicki Ames’ solo exhibition Traces highlights the ageing surface qualities of buildings and the histories they reveal.
Tend/er is an interactive exhibition that brings people together to encourage thought about ways of caring within communities. Physical and online components are woven together into an immersive and reflective experience.
Tied Up With String challenges fifty-five established, mid-career and emerging Western Australian artists to think inside the box and create small, intimate, covetable artworks contained within identical wooden boxes. In the hands of artists, rules and isolation are not a restriction but a chance to explore new horizons.
Home is a central notion of what it means to be human. A sense of home, however, is not guaranteed, it can be lost to outside forces, or willingly given up in the hope of better things to come. Sometimes homes are left with nothing but stories as guidance; acting as maps on our journeys into new territory.
Intricate patterns and narratives reflect the cyclical nature of life in Leanne Bray’s latest exhibition Discernible Sequence in which vibrant paintings and works on paper tell stories of daily life, significant moments and collective celebration.
Local photographers celebrate the local natural and built environment of the Shire of Mundaring in the Explore and Expose Photography Exhibition (E² Challenge). A partnership between Shire of Mundaring, Neami National, Mundaring Arts Centre and Mundaring Camera Club, the competition is designed to encourage the community to rediscover and share stories of the wonderful place in which they live
Grounding brings together three works form the Shire of Mundaring Art Collection which represent ‘productive’ landscapes. This perspective is of particular relevance in the Perth Hills – which forms a threshold between the urban city area and landscapes that are shaped to serve a function through the primary industries – namely mining and agriculture.
Semi-trailer trucks rumble past just five meters from Mundaring Arts Centre with bales of wool stacked three high and fifteen long, filled to the brim with wheat, barley and other grains, or packed with sheep and cattle. Exploring traditions connected to sheep and wool production in Australia, Sheep Show, celebrates, abstracts, and unpacks this significant industry via its material and cultural expressions.
Did you know that Mundaring Arts Centre also manages Midland Junction Arts Centre (MJAC)? If you are looking for even more arts and cultural experiences in the region visit the MJAC website for details.
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