Exhibitions in WA
Galleries in Perth
Art Gallery of WA
♦ Stormie Mills, There is unbroken continuity, 2011, acrylic on canvas, two parts: 153 x 153 cm (each). Courtesy of W.K and H.L – Private Collection. © Stormie Mills. Photo James Rogers.
Tầm Tã – Soaked in the Long Rain, the first international survey exhibition of Vietnamese contemporary artist Trần Lương. Spanning painting, installation, performance, community engagement and institution-making, the exhibition delves into the life of an artist who, over the last 30 years, has played a significant role in supporting critical contemporary art in Vietnam – a context with little public infrastructure for artmaking and display, and continued limits on artistic expression, to 16 Aug.
Attachment Styles brings together works from the 19th to 21st century to explore these questions, showing how artists have long grappled with the emotional complexity of human relationships between individuals, communities and the environments they inhabit, to 2 May 2027.
All the secrets are buried between the oceans and the mountains, is the first solo exhibition by acclaimed Western Australian artist Stormie Mills to be held at an Australian state gallery, 1 Aug – 8 Nov.
Open daily 10am – 5pm, closed Tuesdays. Free admission unless otherwise stated. Perth Cultural Centre, James Street Mall. Ph: 9492 6600 www.artgallery.wa.gov.au
Arts and Health at St John of God Health Care
Art creates welcoming, healing and stimulating environments. At St John of God Health Care incorporating the arts into the design of our spaces and patient care models is one of the ways we enrich patient wellbeing. We strive to be a leader in the Arts and Health field with all of our initiatives informed by research and best practice models. Arts and health programs include therapeutic delivery by allied health clinicians, performing arts and participatory engagement, to exhibiting and sharing our collection of Australian artwork of over 1000 works shared across our health care network.
St John of God Murdoch: Abstract Feeling, brings together artists from the St John of God Health Care Art Collection who have created abstract art in twenty-first century Australia, from 2007. The works exemplify two broad ‘branches’ of abstraction, geometric and gestural, to 31 Oct.
St John of God Subiaco Linking Gallery and St John of God Midland: Mandorla Art Award Touring Exhibition, to 25 Aug. View selected finalists of the 2026 Mandorla Art Award. Australian contemporary artists have responded to the biblical theme; What is Truth?; “I was afraid, because I was naked: and I hid myself” Genesis 3:10.
SJOG Murdoch, 100 Murdoch Drive, Murdoch, SJOG Subiaco, 12 Salvado Rd, Subiaco, SJOG Midland, 1 Clayton St, Midland, SJOG Mt Lawley, corner Ellesmere Rd and Thirlmere Rd, Mt Lawley. Visit www.sjog.org.au/about-us/arts-and-health
Aylward Studioa
Studio Gallery at Wooroloo, a secluded village in the Perth Hills. Paintings, drawings and sculpture by Brian Aylward are on display.
Sculpture trail set on two hectares includes picnic facilities.
Open by appointment. 3995 Werribee Rd, Wooroloo Ph: 9573 1294
brianalyward23@gmail.com www.tbrianaylwardart.com
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City of Perth Council House Gallery
250 square metre space on the ground floor of one of Australia’s finest modernist buildings, Council House, with a lively program of exhibitions not to be missed. Council House Gallery will be closed from February to November 2026, however exhibitions will be held at various venues in the City throughout the year.
Art in the Heart of Democracy, this landmark exhibition marks the first partnership between the City of Perth and Parliament House, bringing contemporary art into the spaces where democratic decisions are made. Featuring works by leading Western Australian artists, the collection reflects themes of place, identity, cultural heritage, and urban change. Through painting, photography, and mixed media, these pieces invite us to see our city through fresh perspectives, reminding us that creativity and civic life are inseparable, to 21 August. See the works at Parliament House Art Tours, conducted the first Monday of very month 11am – 12pm and the first Friday of every month, 3pm – 4pm. Register at arttours@parliament.wa.gov.au
50 Seasons Strong, celebrating NAIDOC, on show at Perth Town Hall, to 31 July.
Council House is open Monday to Friday, 10am – 4pm . Closed weekends and public holidays. 27-29 St Georges Terrace, Perth. www.perth.wa.gov.au
John Curtin Gallery
Christopher Pease, Terra Nullius at John Curtin Gallery 2026. Photo Marnie Richardson.
One of WA’s major public art galleries and one of the largest and best-equipped university galleries in the country. At the forefront of the WA art scene, JCG provides audiences with opportunities to experience and engage with the visual culture of our time through exhibitions, events and public programs.
To 23 Aug: Terra Nullius by Noongar artist Christopher Pease (Minang/Wardandi/Bibbulmun), and OA_RR by Kamilaroi artist Reko Rennie. Pease powerfully transforms a colonial fiction of “nobody’s land”. Drawing from museum archives and 19th-century colonial landscape painting, Pease reworks images that once framed Western Australia as empty and available for settlement, reinscribing Indigenous presence into landscapes through bold Noongar iconography. The exhibition is a vivid assertion of sovereignty, resilience and enduring connection to Country. In Reko Rennie: OA_RR, two major multi-channel video works by Kamilaroi artist Reko Rennie collapse boundaries between street performance and ceremony, colonial history and contemporary assertion. Both exhibitions are curated by Lia McKnight.
Entry Free. Free parking on Sundays. Open Mon – Fri 11am – 5pm, Sun 12pm – 4pm. Closed public holidays. Building 200A, Curtin University, Bentley. Ph 9266 4155. Gallery@curtin.edu.au jcg.curtin.edu.au Facebook.com/johncurtingallery Instagram:@johncurtingallery
Joondalup Contemporary Art Gallery
A purpose-designed art space located in the heart of the Joondalup City Centre, newly opened in 2025.
Two Girls From Amoonguna, a powerful free exhibition featuring new work by Arrernte and Southern Luritja artist Sally M Nangala Mulda and Western Arrarnta artist Marlene Rubuntja. Through video, painting and soft sculpture, the exhibition shares the artists’ intertwined stories of friendship, resilience and lived experience in the Central Desert community of Mparntwe (Alice Springs). At its centre is the animated work Arrkutja Tharra, Kungka Kutjara, Two Girls, created in collaboration with Ludo Studio. Playful yet deeply reflective, the works highlight the humour, strength and cultural richness of town camp life while exploring themes of identity, history and connection, to 15 Aug.
Open Thurs to Sat, 10am – 7pm, Sun to Wed 10am -4pm Closed Good Friday. 102 Boas Ave, Joondalup, Ph. 9400 4000. Email ,nfo@Joondalup.wa gov au
www.joondalupfestival.com. aulprogramla-day-with-david
Midland Junction Arts Centre
Expansive program of exhibitions, workshops, performances and community events at this historic venue in Midland. Facility managed by Mundaring Arts Centre since 2017.
11 July – 9 Aug: In her solo exhibition My Time, My Connection, Yamaji/Ngarluma woman Nicole Dickerson continues her exploration of family, cultural inheritance and memory. Through painting and installation works, Dickerson refers to the places of her childhood, the country and coastline of WA’s Midwest – Yamaji Country, and shares the next steps forward in a generational story, passing down to her son places and cultural experiences known through her family and art.
HyperVision 2026, young artists discuss, display and explore their interpretation of the word ‘journey’ across the categories of photography, sculpture, traditional media, fashion/jewellery, short film and experimental media. Whether looking back, looking within or looking forward, HyperVision is a wonderful opportunity to see their unique perspectives.
Open Wed – Fri 10am – 5pm, Sat 11am – 3pm. Closed outside of exhibitions and advertised events. 276 Great Eastern Highway, Midland. Ph: 9250 8062
www.midlandjunctionartscentre.com.au
Mundaring Arts Centre
Visit MAC and explore what’s in the shop for beautifully crafted works by local artists.
To 23 Aug: Creating Space reveals how making art can become an act of survival, defiance and self-care. Step into a space where making holds pain, power and possibility – where healing isn’t a metaphor, it’s a method. Grounded in the belief that creativity is essential to living, artmaking becomes a practical way to navigate pain, assert agency and reclaim control. For the artists of the SICK AF Collective healing is not a separate outcome; it is embodied within the act of creation. Spanning textiles, photography, writing, jewellery, and installation, the exhibition gathers works born of necessity. Notes, repetitions and fragments sit alongside finished pieces, extending each work beyond its final form and into the conditions that produced it. Here, constraints are negotiated and adaptations are embraced as vital components of the creative language. Across these works individual voices emerge through personal systems of meaning and repair.
Gallery and gift shop open Wed – Fri 10am – 5pm, Sat/Sun 11am – 3pm, closed public holidays. 7190 Great Eastern Hwy, Mundaring. Ph: 9295 3991
Regional galleries
Bunbury Regional Art Gallery
The premier public art gallery in the South West of WA offers a diverse and stimulating programme of exhibitions from national, state and regional sources. Extensive range of public programs, events, classes and workshops.
South West Biennial 2026. Tracework, centred at BRAG and will extend across to the six partner venues throughout the south western regions of Australia, to 19 July.
35th Iluka Visions, annual exhibition showcasing the depth of talent and creativity in the arts from secondary schools across the South West region, 29 Aug – 15 Nov.
31 celebrates over three decades of creative practice by Margaret River artist Christopher Young and his commitment to making, questioning and evolving, 1 Aug – 18 Oct.
Open Wednesday – Sunday 10am – 4pm. Free entry. 64 Wittenoom Street, Bunbury. Ph: (08) 9792 7323. artgallery@bunbury.wa.gov.au www.bunbury.wa.gov.au/brag
Collie Art Gallery
Opened in 2015, includes 150 sq metres of gallery space, a 50 sq metres studio, storage and working space, designed to host exhibitions of national and international significance. It is the first time a purpose-built A-class public art gallery had opened in WA since the Art Gallery of WA in the 1970s.
Transformation, processing deep grief and healing art by Elizabeth Bishop and Michelle Bunn. Elizabeth began this work during a period when her beloved husband became seriously ill and subsequently passed, coming to understand that she was also recovering from decades of trauma. Michelle was mourning the loss of her parents, recognising her physical fragility and emotional burnout. Her work expresses the resonance she found with the lives of other women and the conflict between life’s expectations and reality, 25 July – 6 Sept.
Open Thurs – Mon 10am – 4pm or by appt. 134 Throssell St, Collie. Ph (08) 9734 2921. admin@collieartgallery.org.au www.collieartgallery.org.au
Geraldton Regional Art Gallery
Opened in 1984 as the first regional A class venue in WA. Hosting an annual schedule of some 20 exhibitions across two floors and in multiple gallery spaces, it features national, state and regional contemporary exhibitions.
1 July – 14 Sept: Howard Taylor: Material Practice, Art Gallery of Western Australia’s touring exhibition invites regional audiences to witness firsthand the evolution of one of Western Australia’s most significant artists, seen through selected works in the State Art Collection.
National Photographic Portrait Prize 2025 – A National Portrait Gallery Exhibition, now in its 18th year with over a thousand entries from emerging and established artists across the country. In 2025, the judges – writer and broadcaster Benjamin Law, Senior Curator at the National Portrait Gallery Serena Bentley, and Leigh Robb, Curator of Contemporary Art at the Art Gallery of South Australia selected 48 finalists from a field of more than 1400 entries.
Open Mon 9.30am – 1.30pm, Tues – Fri 9am – 4pm, Sat/Sun 9.30am – 1.30pm, public holidays 9.30am – 1.30pm. 24 Chapman Road, Geraldton Ph: (08) 9956 6750. grag@artgallery.wa.gov.au artgallery.cgg.wa.gov.au