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

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.

STUART ELLIOTT

Shire of Mundaring Acquisition Exhibition

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.

Photography Competition and Exhibition

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.