Sheridan Hart is an artist and writer based in Perth. She recently completed a PhD at Curtin University in contemporary art and its relationship to geolocation and remote sensing. Sheridan has exhibited at The Daphne Collection, Paper Mountain, John Curtin Gallery and Turner Galleries.
The 1967 referendum was Australia’s most unanimous ever, and a landmark of Aboriginal political history.
If poets are the ‘unacknowledged legislators of the world,’ Khadim Ali’s lyrical paintings are odes to the downtrodden.
Traditionally, photographs reveal the character of places like Perth through iconography or colour (Bankwest Tower, sunsets). “This is the opposite of that,” says curator Chelsea Hopper.
As Long as the Night Is Dark is a fantasy project for curator Simon Pericich.
John Akomfrah’s immersive presentation of two major video works at John Curtin Gallery bears the weight and darkness of two different histories.
One is the meticulously planned crucible of Australia’s bureaucracy, the other an ocean-licked, sunburnt leisureplex.
Like the fabled gingerbread house, Pip & Pop’s dream-bright saccharine creations are darker than they first appear.
Unknown Land is a portrait of one historical perspective; the European gaze, freshly fixed upon Western Australia, exploring and describing the land with flourishes of colonial poetry.
In Fragments of Language, an exhibition of over 30 new, small-scale sculptures, Koning’s studio will be transposed into the Engine Room space at Turner Galleries.
In the newly minted Museum of Perth, WA artist Sioux Tempestt reinterprets Perth’s architectural history, its grime and gleam, truth and invention, for her new exhibition Chronicle.
A touring retrospective of Bella Kelly’s work at John Curtin Gallery.
