Artwork: Portent, Andrew Nicholls, giclee print, dimensions variable, 2023
Artwork: Portent, Andrew Nicholls, giclee print, dimensions variable, 2023

ARTIST NEWS // FEBRUARY 2024


// ANDREW NICHOLLS: PORTENT
Showing at Holmes à Court Gallery as part of Perth Festival is Portent, an exhibition by Andrew Nicholls in collaboration with Ad Lib Collective. Partly developing during Andrew's recent residency at the Banff Centre in Canada, it also features work by Art Collective WA artist Sarah Elson. Until 16 March. 

// MERRICK BELYEA AND GEORGE HAYNES: DRAWN 
Opening at Mundaring Arts Centre on 24 February is an exhibition showcasing the language of drawing by four eminent Western Australian artists, including George Haynes, Merrick Belyea, Nic Compton and Ric Spencer. Until 21 April. 

// TONY WINDBERG AND JO DARBYSHIRE: DRYLANDS
Currently showing at Holmes à Court Gallery, Vasse Felix, Margaret River, this group exhibition considers changes to the Western Australian landscape of the Wheatbelt, Southern and Great Southern regions. Until 28 April. 

// STUART ELLIOTT: INGRESS CLOSING EVENT
Bunbury Regional Art Gallery is bidding farewell to Stuart Elliott's latest exhibition Ingress with a closing event filled with art, conversation, light refreshments and a DJ set. Friday 16 February, 5.30pm.

// JO DARBYSHIRE: PANEL DISCUSSION 
Jo Darbyshire will be part of a panel discussion at the Art Gallery of WesternAustralia about their current exhibition State of Abstraction. Saturday 24 February, 11am. 

// STATE OF ABSTRACTION
Bringing together abstract works by some of WA’s most historically important artists, features fifteen Art Collective WA artist members: Helen Smith, Cathy Blanchflower, Jo Darbyshire, George Haynes, Giles Hohnen, Chris Hopewell, Jeremy Kirwan-Ward, Theo Koning, Eveline Kotai, Vanessa Russ, Alex Spremberg, Michele Theunissen, Paul Uhlmann, Trevor Vickers and Jurek Wybraniec. Until 10 March.