It’s time to dump cultural cringe. This year’s visual arts program at Perth Festival is both bigger than before and almost 100% local. It’s exciting and a chance for everyone to put a little more art into their lives. Ara Jansen reports.
Tag Archives: Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts
Reviews
Multiple twists on reality in trio of exhibitions
11 November 2020
Three new exhibitions at PICA take the viewer on a journey that is aural as well as visual, discovers Craig McKeough.
Reviews
Technicolour courage
20 August 2020
What can be found in the extravagantly coloured and textured world of xhe (online)? Patrick Gunasekera tuned into Zoom to find out.
Reviews
Permission for self-care
21 July 2020
PICA’s annual “Hatched: National Graduate Show” takes a turn towards compassion this year, discovers Jaimi Wright.
Opinion
A walk with Tina Stefanou
4 June 2020
As part of Seesaw’s ‘Day in the life’ series, artist Tina Stefanou reflects not only on her work during the pandemic, but on the role of the artist at a time that is characterised by economic, social, political and environmental injustice.
Q&A
Hatching at home
20 May 2020
Local emerging artist Annie Huang tells Nina Levy how she’s managing the challenges of being an emerging artist and a post-graduate student in COVID times.
Reviews
Exploring alienation in suburbia
4 March 2020
Jenny Scott says watching the strange ‘machinima’ film, Hudson Valley Ruins is compelling at times, and unsettling at others.
Reviews
Rhythms of life
3 March 2020
Jenny Scott finds much to contemplate in the three video works by Tina Havelock Stevens that make up ‘Thunderhead’.
Reviews
Out of mind’s reach
14 February 2020
Craig McKeough finds it hard to leave the stunning, imagined world of Perth Festival’s ‘Chalkroom’.
Reviews
Lip-slicking history lecture
31 January 2020
Jonathan W. Marshall learns about the history of lipstick while Daley King whips up a batch in Lipstuck.
