created by SCITECH
Perth, WA

Let there be light!

Step out of the darkness and into this hands-on, interactive exhibition where visitors can play with light.

Playing with Light

Arthur Boyd
Shoalhaven as the River Styx c.1996
Oil on canvas, 107 x 91.5 cm.
Boyd Family Collection

This Bundanon Trust Touring Exhibition will consider the landscape in Arthur Boyd’s work from youthful plein air subjects celebrating light, to the final phase of Boyd’s career depicting the Shoalhaven on the south coast of New South Wales.

Arthur Boyd:
Landscape of the Soul

Copper Cohesion:
New work by Kate Roberts

Kate began incorporating metal smithing into her practice eight years ago. Her latest works cover metalwork to etching to printmaking encapsulating the artist’s love of both material and process.

Kate Roberts
‘Residium’, ‘Rippled’ & ‘Pendulous’ (2018)
Copper and silver, 10 x 10 cm each. Courtesy of the artist.

Hilda Rix Nicholas
Une Australienne 1926 (detail)
Oil on canvas.
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. Purchased 2014.
© Bronwyn Wright

Comprised entirely of works selected from the NGA collection, this exhibition provides superb examples of the diverse expressions of Art Deco.

Art Deco
from the National Collection:
The world turns modern

Henry James Johnstone
A change of clothes c.1880 (detail)
Oil on canvas, 56.7 x 46.5 cm.
Ipswich Art Gallery Collection. Gift of a private donor through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program, 2017

Explore a selection of some of the finest works from the Ipswich Art Gallery Collection of 19th and early 20th century fine art and decorative art objects.

19th & 20th century works

Laurence Aberhart
(Domestic architecture) Ipswich, Queensland, 28 August 1997
1997 (printed 1998)
Silver gelatin photograph,
19.4 x 24.5 cm.
Ipswich Art Gallery Collection. Acquired through the Ipswich Arts Foundation, 2003

Ipswich’s domestic architecture is featured in this selection of photographs by Laurence Aberhart, Charles Page and Richard Stringer.

Photographs from the Collection