Past Exhibitions
Moments of Insight
Anastasija Komarnyckyj is set to unveil her latest body of work, "Moments of Insight," a captivating exploration of the essence of medieval village life. The exhibition, expressed through the fundamental mediums of drawing, mixed media, and ceramics, offers a unique perspective on history, vulnerability, and the simplicity of life within the medieval village setting.
"Moments of Insight" is not merely an art exhibition; it is an immersive journey into history, culture, and the shared human experience. Anastasija Komarnyckyi's ability to breathe life into her creations offers viewers a unique opportunity to connect with the past while contemplating the timeless essence of human existence.
Not Just a Pretty Face
This unique exhibition showcases the diverse talents of the dedicated individuals who work tirelessly behind the scenes to bring the magic of the arts to our community. From administrators to technicians, educators to curators, our staff members wear many hats within the complex. This exhibition provides them with the opportunity to don yet another hat – that of the artist.
Inspired by Nature
Lesley Curtis is proud to present a captivating art exhibition that pays tribute to the exquisite world of native birds and animals. This exhibition promises to be a visual feast, offering a unique glimpse into the heart and soul of an artist who has spent over 11 years capturing the vibrant beauty of our avian neighbours and their friends.
Inspired by Margaret & the Tweed Valley
Returning from a five-week residency at Tweed Regional Gallery & Margaret Olley Art Centre in Northern NSW, Nannup artist, Miranda Free presents works created in response to the lush landscape surrounding the gallery and still life works that owe a debt to the incomparable Margaret Olley.
Miranda undertook a project that explored the temporality of landscape where she attempted to imbue her landscape works with an indication of the variability of nature day to day and hour to hour.
Wildflowers and Landscape Exhibition
This exhibition is in conjunction with the annual community event, Wildflowers and Environment Show, which highlights wildflowers & the natural environment of the southwest of WA.
Artists from the southwest have submitted their work to be a part of this exhibition which celebrates the love of WA wildflowers and the beauty of the landscapes we are surrounded by.
The Works
Ten dedicated artists who meet every Tuesday to paint are holding their latest show in the Old Courthouse in Busselton. The group who meet in the Fodder Room every week are excited to present a selection of the pieces from this year’s work. The group consists of Linda Belford, Maggie Caramia, Julie Carter, Katie Gaskin, Lesley Healy, Leisa Maslin, Sonja Neubauer, Jenny Steele, Wendy Wicksteed and Sharon Wilkins.
Colour’s of Natures Palette
Joan Parke is an Artist and Art Therapist, using a range of media and collage around the theme of the colours of nature. This can be through brilliant acrylics; the more subtle and soothing watercolours; and at times, dramatic black and white effects.
Florabundance
Kerry Munns is a self taught intuitive abstract expressionist with a passion to teach. She was brought up in the wheat-belt of Western Australia living most of her life in and around Koorda and Beacon areas. Kerry has developed her own style as an intuitive abstract expressionist working with her favourite mediums, acrylics, acrylics impasto, oil pastels, chalk pastels and water colours of which she mostly enjoys painting flowers and landscapes. Munn loves to paint in a vibrant colour pallet and creates her paintings with texture that exude happiness and hopes to fill the world with the colour it craves.
In Search of My Inner Tree
After retirement as an Arts Educator, Graeme made a pact with himself to complete one drawing per week for a year. These small rhythmic marks soon made a pattern and suggested shapes that became recognizable: a tree in a landscape. These barren landscapes reflected his feelings. During COVID Graeme was able to revisit these works and complete the digitization and colourisation of all the 52 drawings.
Sarah Malone
Sarah Malone is an Australian artist and Visual Arts educator living in the Southwest region of Western Australia. Her work is expressionistic and notably recognisable. She works in an intuitive style using fluid processes and techniques. This approach allows her to create intricately layered abstracts that depict the raw beauty of the Australian landscape.
Bird Brains
"Bird Brains" is a painting and sculpture exhibition by three wildlife artists - Mark Dalton, Sally Edmonds and Simon Harrison.
Polychrome
Moment to moment, that which we seek can be found at the tip of our fingers. Striking, yet soft, Polychrome presents a vision of Culture and Spirit bleeding through to our binary perspective. A blend of colourful indigenous-style marks juxtapose the muted tones of the figures - not to highlight what we are lacking, but what possibilities we can invite in and explore - a space that any person of any race can touch if they dare. Twelve figurative paintings make up this exhibition.
The Collection
Since graduating university Alice Alder has worked as graphic designer in the Western Australia and showcased her contemporary art in an array of exhibitions since 2016. Based in my Capel studio, Alder explores the atmospheric world of contemporary art through landscape oil paintings. Her journey first began creating watercolour illustration for her published books. Struggling to start a relationship with oil paints, until she began to approach the oils the same as the techniques used with watercolours. Creating a contemporary style, Alder has developed a raw and unvarnished truth of nature. These rough watermarks and layers create an absence of idealism in the art of landscapes. Alder’s use of contemporary impressionism is rendered with loose, expressive brushwork and a focus on the effects of implied light to show subtle vitality of time. Inspired by the aim to evoke an emotional connection to her creations, Alder’s pieces gives an impression of what could be, rather than what is. As a person with Dyslexia and Synesthesia, Alder combines her visions to classical music capturing formations that build up to an indomitable landscape in a figurative moment in seasonal change.