In this edition we feature John Curtin Gallery’s contribution to Perth Festival, However vast the darkness. Comprising threestunning projects, the exhibition allows audiences to revisit Lisa Reihana’s cinematic masterpiece, in Pursuit of Venus (infected), shown at the 2017 Venice Biennale and at John Curtin Gallery in 2018. Bow Echo by Afghani artist Aziz Hazara, a powerfully poignant five channel work, and a stand out at the 2020 Sydney Biennale is also on show, as well as OCURRENT AFFAIR by Brisbane-based Indigenous collective proppaNOW. Now globally recognised after OCURRENT AFFAIR won the prestigious Jane Lombard Prize for Art and Social Justice in New York, the exhibition explores the politics of Aboriginal art, and reveals a rethinking of what it means to be a contemporary Aboriginal artist. 

Laetitia Wilson visited Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery to review Black Sky, its Festival offering for 2023, in a gallery wide show where the strength and agency of black visions is palpable. 

Annette Peterson explored Fremantle Arts Centre’s Festival show, Other Horizons, which conveys uncomfortable truths in a celebration of the work of First Nations women and women of colour.  

We report on master printmakers on show in Albany, and the expansion of Kamilė Gallery to two gallery spaces, both in the Cathedral Square precinct of Perth.

We chatted to Ross Potter, instigator of the group exhibition Bread of Bone at Holmes à Court Gallery, and explored the work of Connie Petrillo and Toni Wilkinson ahead of their exhibitions, Tough Pleasures and Sublime Peril at Art Collective WA.