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Kate Cotching, Tiber North, 2005, hand-cut paper, gold edging. In Paper at Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth Cultural Centre, 51 James Street, from 6 July to 6 August. Visit www.pica.org.au.

Noongar for NAIDOC

Following from the success of last year’s exhibition, the Bunbury Regional Art Galleries is again hosting Noongar country this month. Featuring historic photographs and contemporary art and craft relating to Noongar art, culture and heritage, Noongar country features four exhibitions: Seven hills: Roelands Native Mission has colour photographs (c.1964) of Aboriginial children of the Roelands Mission; Noongar Moorditji: Makuru has contemporary paintings by Noongar artists from the South-west, Great Southern, Wheatbelt and Peel regions; Boongarl Yirel is an annual exhibition of contemporary art and craft produced by emerging South-west Indigenous artists; and Koolangka Maar Koorliny features works of art by Djidi Djidi Aboriginal School students. Until 6 August. Visit www.brag.org.au. KJD

http://www.brag.org.au

Beyond the desert

The Central TAFE Art Gallery has an exciting exhibition this month, Western Desert and beyond: Paintings from the Sue & Ian Bernadt Collection. This show offers audiences a rare opportunity to view a selection of the extraordinary Indigenous paintings from the private collection of the Bernadts, arts patrons to both AGWA and Central TAFE. The exhibition includes Indigenous paintings from the more recently established art centres including Irrunytju, Blackstone Ridge and APY Lands as well as works from Derby, Papunya, Utopia and Mornington Island. Don’t miss this one! Until 20 July at the Central TAFE Art Gallery, 12 Aberdeen Street, Perth. Call 08 9427 1505. KJD

Freo

The Fremantle Arts Centre presents a series of exhibitions until 23 July. These include The overlap and the intersect, a collaborative installation by Elizabeth Delfs and Brittany Salt exploring the space between the garment, sculpture and the built environment; Caitlin Yardley’s Pour comprising a series of glowing oil paintings revealing traces of the body; and Murmurs, an exhibition featuring the work of nineteen Australian photographic artists that reflect their enduring relationship with France and the intimate connection between travel and photography. Visit www.fac.org.au.

http://www.fac.org.au

Go figure

Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery presents a selection of exhibitions that reflect on the continuing intense concentration on figurative painting and personal experience in the visual arts in Western Australia. Configured: Aspects of contemporary Western Australian figurative art is curated by Perth figurative painter, Kevin Robertson, and situates current figurative practice in a distinctly post-modern context by selecting artists who choose to re-work images from the part and explore contemporary imagery. A second exhibition, Transience: Figurative art in new hands, looks at the work of a small number of recent graduates from Perth’s three university art schools, all of whom use figurative techniques. Their work can be characterised by a shared interest in small worlds, domestic and personal, and in memory, reminiscence and impermanence. Both shows are on until 2 August. Visit http://lwgallery.uwa.edu.au/program/2006.

http://lwgallery.uwa.edu.au/program/2006

BEAP

The John Curtin Gallery will showcase the latest productions by local artists exploring new and adventurous pathways for creating electronic and living art works from 21 July to 15 September. The artists featured in BEAPworks06 investigate creative practices at the intersection of science and new technologies. The exhibition encourages us to reconsider the social implications of current scientific and technological advancements. John Curtin Gallery will also present Erwin Olaf: Elegance and perversity an exhibition from Dutch photographer Erwin Olaf, who has carved a career from staging his own realities and pushing humorously beyond the accepted values of our consumer society. Visit www.johncurtingallery.org.

http://www.johncurtingallery.org

Octopus 6

Following his recent solo exhibition Back water at the Holmes à Court Gallery in East Perth, Matthew Hunt has been invited to participate in the annual Octopus exhibition at Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne. Presented as a flagship project in Gertrude’s annual calendar, the Octopus series provides a forum for new curatorial and artistic positions, and promotes opportunities for contemporary artists to develop ambitious new projects within a critical and supportive public context. From 9 July to 21 August, Octopus 6: We know who we are is curated by Melbourne-based, Zara Stanhope. Visit www.gertrude.org.au.

http://www.gertrude.org.au

Rick Swallow and Kate Daw at AGWA

As mentioned last month, the Art Gallery of Western Australia (AGWA) presents its next round of art-in-focus projects with Ricky Swallow: The past sure is tense and Kate Daw: The between space. Born in regional Victoria in 1974 and now living in Los Angeles, Ricky Swallow was Australia’s youngest official representative at the 2003 Venice Biennale. The between space is an exhibition of ceramic sculpture, text paintings and screenprints by Esperance-born, Melbourne-based artist Kate Daw. Daw’s work is richly evocative of personal memory and embraces a feminised aesthetic. Both exhibitions are curated by Jenepher Duncan and are on until 2 October. Visit www.artgallery.wa.gov.au.

http://www.artgallery.wa.gov.au

Paper, paper, paper

From 6 July to 6 August, the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA) will present a series of exhibitions focusing on paper. The main exhibition space, curated by Hannah Mathews, includes works by Kate Cotching, Matthew Gardiner and Sandra Selig, among others, and brings together artists from across Australia who work with paper in ways that are innovative, exciting and engaging. From origami folding robots, paper forms living on rocks, newspaper competitions and book sculptures, the exhibition presents paper in ways never seen before! This exhibition is complemented by Louise Paramor’s A bunch of flowers, an exhibition of two recent bodies of work comprising paper collages and constructions of found plastic objects sourced from domestic and industrial sources. Both exhibitions are supported by a guest-curated exhibition in PICA’s Screen Space. Curated by Kirsten Bradley, Re-planted: Small things unearthed by weeding brings together works from artists across the globe, including Lycette Bros (AUS); Jakub Dbrovsky (Chez Republic); and Marek Brandt (Germany). And don’t miss the free artists talk on Thursday 6 July at 1pm. Visit www.pica.org.au.

http://www.pica.org.au