In the Front Room
The Front Room is a small gallery space at the front of the cottage available for small-scale projects and shows, as well as residencies.
Current Exhibition
‘Beyond Vision’ VisAbility Group Exhibition
Exhibition runs: 17 July – 4 August 2026
Opening event: Friday 17 July 2026, 5.30pm-7.30pm
Weekend gallery hours: Saturdays and Sundays 10.00am-4.00pm
Beyond Vision is the Community Activity Centre (CAC) at VisAbility’s first public art exhibition feauturing a diverse collection of paintings, mosaics, pottery and woodwork by artists from the Centre’s creative programs.
We invite you to look beyond assumptions about low and no vision to discover the creativity, individuality and talent of the CAC community.
(Pictured: ‘Eye of the Tiger’ Elizabeth Gow)
Past Exhibitions
’50 Years of Deadly’ Feature Artist: Victor Ronan
Exhibition runs: 26 June – 14 July 2026
Artist talk with Victor Ronan: Saturday 11 July, 1.00pm-2.30pm
View exhibition booklet here
Please join us for the celebration of work from local First Nations artist Victor Ronan. Victor Ronan started painting at VPCA’s Create Connect art workshops in 2021 before concentrating on developing his skills through more individually focused studies, where Victor connected with the stories from his family. Victor’s technical approach references the work of local Noongar artists, trained in Western styles of drawing and painting from the Carrolup School in the early part of the 20th century. Victor’s story echoes this year’s NAIDOC theme of determination and resilience, studying and honouring his culture; continuing to develop a personal artistic voice.
VPCA are grateful for the support from Dept of Communities, Monadelphous Group & Bush Blossom Gallery (Kalgoorlie) in developing this initiative.
(Pictured: ‘Outback Desert’ Victor Ronan)
‘Rollability Art Show’ Rollability Disability Services
Exhibition runs: 25 May – 2 June 2026
The Rollability Art Show aims to celebrate the creativity, talent, and unique perspectives of artists in Perth who are living with disabilities. Through painting, sculpture, photography, and more, this exhibition provides a welcoming space for artists to share their stories, challenge perceptions, and connect with the community through the power of art. This showcase highlights diversity, inclusion, and the importance of accessible creative expression for all.
‘Grief: A Dreamless Landscape’ Emma Purkis
Exhibition runs: 4 May – 19 May 2026
Opening event: Saturday 9 May, 6.00pm-7.30pm
‘Grief: A Dreamless Landscape’ is an ensemble of autobiographical works which explore ways grief can manifest psychologically over time.
The works juggle with the ideas of loss, heartbreak, self loathing, self acceptance and a search for peace. The project overall is a reflective process, drawing on memory and personal experience, which in conjunction talk to the broader themes of mental health and trauma.
‘Bounty’ Vic Park Printmaking Collective
Exhibition runs: 14 April – 26 April 2026
Exhibition opening: Sunday 19 April 10.00am-12.00pm
Weekend open hours: Saturdays and Sundays 10.00am-4.00pm (except Sun 26th 10am-12pm)
A trove of printmaking in all its forms, celebrating the value of creativity and community connection. Hosted by the Vic Park Printmaking Collective, a volunteer-run creative community gem for all who seek belonging through exploration, experimentation and expression in printmaking.
This exhibition is part of the 2026 Town of Victoria Park’s Arts Season.
(Pictured: Renee Parnell)
‘Tracing the Invisible’ North Metro Tafe Student Exhibition
‘Assemblage’
Exhibition runs: 6 February – 24 February 2026
Opening event: Friday 6 February, 5.30pm-7.30pm
Assemblage showcases a group of emerging artists who work in a variety of disciplines that include painting, drawing, textiles, sculpture and installation. The distinctive creative voices of Elizabeth Hughes, Agnes Tregonning-Barwell, Jaye Quin, Anna ‘Marta’ Martianova and Cadia Annita combine to express a range of diverse responses to contemporary life. Each artist presents a slice of their own unique history and identity. This group comes together after studying a Diploma of Visual Arts at North Metropolitan TAFE.
(Pictured: Jaye Quin, Agnes Tregonning-Barwell)
Artybricks: Natural Elements
Exhibition runs: 16 January 2025 – 3 February 2026
Opening event: Friday 16 January 2026, 5.30-7.30pm
PerthLUG presents ArtyBricks: Natural Elements, an exhibition exploring the fusion of LEGO and natural materials. Featuring a variety of innovative works, this showcase provides an opportunity to share our passion for LEGO as a creative and playful medium. ArtyBricks returns to the gallery in 2026 with an expanded roster of artists and more space to explore their relationship to our environment.
Proudly sponsored by PerthLUG.
(Pictured: Lukas Mack, Narelle Hickey, Liam Phillips)
VPCA Members’ Exhibition 2025
Exhibition runs: Friday 28th November 2025 – Tuesday 9th December 2025
Opening event: Friday 28th November 2025, 5.30pm – 7.30pm
Come along to see a collection of artworks by the wonderful and talented community we have at Victoria Park Centre for the Arts.
A ‘People’s Choice’ Award of assorted art materials up to the value of $250 will be donated by art supplier, Oxlades (Osborne Park) for the most popular work in the exhibition. We are also adding an additional award of an exhibition offering at VPCA in 2026 for one lucky member exhibiting in this year’s exhibition, more details to come.
There is also a children’s category with cash prizes again this year, being exhibited in the Front Room.
(Pictured: Barbara Maumill, Karina Eguchi, VPCA Members’ Exhibition 2024)
‘YODyssey 2025’ Kenneth Lewsey
Exhibition runs: 7 November – 24 November 2025
Opening event: Saturday 8 November, 2.00pm
Closing event & award presentation: Friday 21 November, 4.00pm
This exhibition is a collection of artworks that were created after Kenneth Lewsey’s diagnosis of Younger Onset Dementia (YOD). The exhibition seeks to highlight the life of people living with Younger Onset Dementia (under 65 years at the time of diagnosis) and the struggles that both the person with the illness and their carers experience.
The Robert Anson Perpetual Award (RAPA) will be awarded at the closing event, this year voted from Ken’s exhibited work. The Young Ones Choir will sing at the closing event.
(Pictured: Kenneth Lewsey)
‘Remnants’ Laura Ward
Exhibition runs: 18 October – 4 November 2025
Opening event: Saturday 18 October, 2.00pm-4.30pm
Weekend gallery hours: Saturdays and Sundays 11.00am – 2.30pm
Ward combines photographic screen-printing, puff paste, embroidery and bead work to create experimental works representing the human body.
She represents fluids, scars, bruises, wounds, forms and mimics human textures as a site of complex interrelations of emotions, sensations and changing capabilities.
‘Grand Designs’ Create Connect Artists
Exhibition runs: 5 September – 23 September 2025
Opening event: Friday 5 September, 1.00pm – 3.00pm
Grand Designs showcases the housing creations of Create Connect artists—individuals living with disability and complex needs. Each work offers a glimpse into their homes, or the homes they dream of.
Using everyday materials such as cardboard, paint, popsticks and collage, the artists explore ideas of shelter, identity and belonging through imaginative, personal structures.
Catalogues compiled by Kat Gregory: Real Estate for Sale @ Raymond St | House Designs | Debra Long – A Retrospective
(Pictured: Malcolm Burgess)
‘The 14’ Artists from Watercolours WA
Exhibition runs: 25 July – 11 August 2025
Gallery open weekends: Sat & Sun 10.00am – 4.00pm
Works by an enthusiastic group of watercolourists based in Western Australia who are united by the love of this expressive, delicate medium. Inspired by the lush landscapes and vibrant colours of our home, this practice allows them to truly connect with their surroundings here in WA.
With every brush stroke, they are able to capture the beauty and fluidity of watercolour as a medium.
(Pictured: ‘Colours of Broome’ Valentina Voigt)
‘The Next Generation: Strength, Vision & Legacy’ Brent Johnston and Bush Blossom Gallery
Exhibition runs: 15 July – 22 July 2025
Victoria Park Centre for the Arts and Bush Blossom Gallery in Kalgoorlie-Boulder have collaborated to present an exhibition featuring Wangkatja-Ngadju artist Brent Johnston for our 2025 NAIDOC program.
Brent Johnston’s paintings pass down Tjukurpa stories from the Goldfield’s region such as the Wati Kutarra story and many others.
This exhibition is supported by Monadelphous Group.
(Picture credit: detail of ‘Hunting Marlu (Kangaroo) and Kalaya (Emu)’, Brent Johnston)
‘The Art of Mosaics’ MAANZ WA Branch Exhibition
Exhibition runs: 14 June – 29 June, 2025
Weekend gallery hours: Saturdays and Sundays 10.00am-4.00pm
Artist talks: Wed 18 June 10.30am & Wed 25 June 10.30am
Music, Mosaics, Munchies afternoon tea – Thursday 19th June, 1.00pm – 2.30pm ($5)
The Mosaic Association of Australia and New Zealand (MAANZ WA) presents its biennial exhibition.
A wide variety of mosaic art from Western Australian mosaicists will be on display. A ‘must see’ with mosaics featuring work in glass, ceramic, stone, slate, wood and a wide variety of recycled and found objects. The exhibition attracts a number of prizes and as a visitor you can participate by voting for the People’s Choice’ award.
(Pictured: ‘Sentinel in the Forest’ Lynley Jakowyna)
‘Local History Awards 2025 Exhibition’ Town of Victoria Park
Exhibition runs: 23 May – 10 June, 2025
Weekend gallery hours: Saturdays 24th, 31st, 7th, 10.00am-4.00pm.
We invite you along to view the Local History Awards 2025 Exhibition. Journey through Victoria Park’s rich history with a showcase of this year’s photographic entries, past submissions and standout moments from previous iterations.
(Pictured: ‘The Style of the Times at East Victoria Park’, submitted by Renae Carey)
‘Dreams: Through Our Eyes’ Early Start Australia
Exhibition runs: 2 May – 20 May 2025
Opening event: Friday 2 May, 4:30-6:30pm
Early Start Australia (East Victoria Park) supports individuals with developmental delays and variety of disabilities from early years to adulthood. The individuals who attend the clinic have unique profiles of strengths and capacities, each with at least one component of their life that they seek to build capacity in. A goal for our therapists and artists alike is to build a community where capacity is valued through many varied opportunities for community participation.
‘Dreams Through Our Eyes’ is an inspiring and colourful exhibition created by children/teens and adults, sharing their personal dreams and aspirations through their artwork. The pieces reflect the imagination, creativity and unique perspectives of the young artists – a celebration of resilience, hope and the power of imagination. Come witness how dreams know no boundaries!
This exhibit is a powerful reminder that everyone, no matter their abilities, has dreams worth sharing. We invite you to experience the world through their eyes and be inspired by the limitless potential within us all.
‘Here we were’ Tegan Jenkins artist in residence
Residency runs: 2 April – 21 April 2025
Exhibition runs: 22nd April – 29th April 2025
Opening event: Thursday 24th April, 6.00pm-7.30pm
See yourself and visual art anew. Tegan invites you into the ‘studio’ to co-create large scale artworks. Building on her 2024 program ‘We were here’, this residency explores the visual play between the self and the collective body. The collaborative artworks made during the residency will be on show at VPCA 22-29 April. Contact tegan.lj@gmail.com to book a group session, or pop in and say hello.
Supported by the Town of Victoria Park as part of Arts Season 2025.
(Pictured: Tegan Jenkins’ 2024 ‘We were here’ residency)
‘Aodaliya’ Artists from the WA Oriental Culture and Art Association
Exhibition runs: 21 March– 1 April 2025
Opening event: Friday 21 March 2025, 5.30pm-7.30pm
(Pictured: ‘Marri Forest Watercolour’ (detail), Jane Li)
‘Art about Electronics’ Jpark
Exhibition runs: 8 February – 25 February 2025
Opening event: Saturday 8 February 2025, 1.00pm-3.00pm
A surreal and unique look at electronics through the visual arts including acrylic paint on canvas, silver, copper, brass and porcelain sculptures. The subject has been viewed in many ways, including interpretations of tracks on a printed circuit board and free form sculptures, using found and recycled materials where possible. The artist is an alien and therefore the art must be viewed through different eyes.
(Pictured: The Sex Worker, Jpark)
VPCA Members’ Exhibition 2024
Each year we hold an annual Members’ exhibition to celebrate the creative endeavours of our community, come along to celebrate our local artists and view the collection of work.
A ‘People’s Choice’ Award of assorted art materials will be donated by art suppliers Oxlades of Osborne Park for the most popular work in the exhibition.
This is the first year we are also hosting a children’s art category in the Front Room, with 10 artists from our Creative Kids & Drawing for Children (8-15 yr olds) showing their work. This category is supported by a personal donation from Mayor Karen Vernon with three cash awards being presented.
‘YODyssey – The art of living well with Young Onset Dementia’
Exhibition runs: Friday 8 November – 26 November 2024
Opening event: Friday 8 November, 4.00pm-6.00pm
Closing event: Tuesday 26 November, 4.00pm-6.00pm
An exhibition showcasing artwork by people experiencing Young Onset Dementia (<65 years of age when diagnosed). The event is designed to raise community awareness of Young Onset Dementia and to highlight diagnosis is “a bend in the road, not the end of the road”.
The art will be accompanied by posters, pamphlets, videos and workshops to educate the community about Young Onset Dementia while celebrating the quality of their artwork.
2024 features artists Keith Bleach, Frank Swaan, Jenny Marsh and Saeed Foroughian.
The inaugural Robert Anson Perpetual Award will be presented at the closing event.
(Pictured: Part of tryptic ‘Sense of Place’ (detail), Frank Swaan)
‘Demonstration of Time Travel’ Matteo Sullivan
Exhibition runs: 18 October – 5 November 2024
Opening event: Saturday 19 October, 2.30pm–5.30pm
Matteo Sullivan presents a conceptual artwork defining the dream of many scientists and others: to travel in time. To reach that dream, the most important element needed is an idea, an idea that may never come. Here the idea is travelling in time with art.
‘Art Jam WA’ Rocky, Tyrone, Gary Tron Tonnessen, Ash Odgers
Exhibition runs: 4 October – 15 October 2024
We are delighted to be working with Art Jam WA as a new collaboration showcasing artists from the group as part of this year’s Mental Health Week. Art Jam’s contributing artists include Ash Odgers, Gary ‘Tron’ Tonnessen, Tyrone ‘Centaur of Creation’ and Rocky.
(Pictured (detail): Rocky)
‘New Old Bold’ Create Connect Artists
Exhibition runs: 6 September – 24 September 2024
Opening event: Friday 6 September, 5.30pm-7.30pm
Victoria Park Centre for the Arts’ Create Connect art program has supported and promoted the work of artists working with acute disabilities since 1994. The Centre runs three visual art sessions and one music group each week over four terms.
‘New Old Bold’ includes a rich variety of work from our visual artists with a public opening event. The Front Room will feature two artists from the groups.
(Pictured: ‘New Old Bold’ Michael Frith)
‘My Littles 365 Project’ Lea Taylor
Exhibition runs: 26 August – 3 September 2024
Closing event: Tuesday 3 September, 11.00am-12.00pm
The ‘Littles 365 Project’ is a project by artist Lea Taylor, who has woven a basket a day for 365 days, culminating in this exhibition. All of the 365 woven baskets are either sold by pledge from the My Littles 365 Facebook page or available for purchase during the exhibition, with 100% of the proceeds supporting Zonta House Refuge Association.
‘Victoria Park Community Portrait Prize’ Victoria Park Community Centre
Exhibition runs: 2 August – 22 August 2024
This exhibition held by the Victoria Park Community Centre is being extended by popular demand and we will be hosting the portraits from this community art prize in the Front Room.
This was the first Vic Park Community Portrait Prize, open to all ages, stages and styles, with the only requirement being that both artist and subject must be connected to the Vic Park area in some way. Beginners were highly encouraged to give it a go and a series of portraiture workshops led by the expert alumni of the prestigious Lester Prize was held in the lead-up to the exhibition.
Generously supported by Town of Victoria Park and The Lester Prize.
‘Keep the Fire Burning! Blak, Loud and Proud’
Exhibition runs: 16 July – 23 July 2024
Victoria Park Centre for the Arts with Bush Blossom Gallery in Kalgoorlie-Boulder present a very special exhibition for our 2024 NAIDOC program ‘Keep the Fire Burning! Blak Loud and Proud’.
Monika Dvorak, Curator of Bush Blossom Gallery Kalgoorlie-Boulder has been working with many First Nations artists from the surrounding communities of the Western Australian Goldfields.
Many small affordable paintings have been produced for sale to provide artists with an independent income and a cultural avenue to keep telling the stories that are often told around a campfire.
Supported by local business Monadelphous Group.
(Pictured: ‘Travelling to the Waterhole’ (detail) by Rob Wilson)
‘Fikacam’ Josh Wells
Exhibition runs: 14 June – 2 July 2024
Opening event: Friday 14 June, 5.30pm-7.30pm
Visiting far off places as a tourist often compels us to observe and photograph our surroundings. Yet we regularly take our home surroundings for granted. By working in collaboration with Fika the Cavoodle, FIKACAM asks us to look at our world through the perpetually curious eyes of a dog.
This playful exhibition of works by Josh Wells and Fika is heavily influenced by reading Susan Sontag’s critical essay In Plato’s Cave while on a holiday and, as a professional photographer and tourist, enacting many of the behaviours Sontag criticises. The body of work questions notions of perspective, authenticity and reality in Photography, as well as recontextualising our local East Victoria Park.
‘We were here’ Tegan Jenkins
Exhibition runs: 23 May – 11 June 2024
What is Community Art? What’s the role of an Arts Worker? How can we teach individuals and groups meaningful art practices? How do we inspire people who don’t identify as creative, to make things? Why is this important? Why does making art matter?
Tegan Jenkins, a Perth based multi-disciplinary artist and community arts worker will be undertaking a 3 week residency, involving community participation, to explore the creative exchange between artists and aspiring artists alike. Using instructional performance and guided art-making, Tegan aims to get to the heart of this ongoing, internal conversation, and bring it into the physical realm, into the light, to see if it’s as beautiful and chaotic as it feels.
‘We were here’ is a space to fill, by the end of the residency, we will have been here, and something will have taken place, something will be left behind…
Tegan is inviting the community to get involved – please contact Tegan if you would like to book in a session and participate in this project (tegan.lj@gmail.com).
(Pictured: Tegan Jenkins)
‘My World’ Early Start Australia East Victoria Park
Exhibition runs: 3 May – 21 May 2024
Early Start Australia (East Victoria Park) supports individuals with developmental delays or disorders from early years to adulthood. The individuals who attend the clinic have unique profiles of strengths and capacities, each with at least one component of their life that they seek to build capacity in. A goal for the therapists and artists alike is to build a community where capacity is valued through many varied opportunities for community participation.
The theme of the exhibition presented by Early Start Australia this year is ‘MY WORLD’. This exhibition is an invitation to you to stop, reflect and share the unique perspectives and lens through which the artists see the world and their place within it. As you walk around the gallery, you will see dynamic artwork from individuals and groups, using their artistic talent to you show you their world.
‘Compact’
Exhibition runs: 8 April – 16 April 2024
Compact, curated by Megan Baker is an exhibition celebrating contemporary local sculptures across a variety of mediums, all unified in their scale of nothing being bigger than 60cm x 60cm x 60cm.
Showcasing work by 10 artists: Ben David, Brighde Silver O’Hara, Effie Windberg, Jessica Mcleod, Michael Miocevich, Nazerul Ben-Dzulkefli, Rizzy, Sam Huxtable, Sarah Eve and Sky Edwards.
Showing as part of Town of Victoria Park’s 2024 Arts Season.
(Pictured: ‘We Shapeshift 72 Times A Day (Codesswitching Deity)’ by Nazerul Ben-Dzulkefli)
‘Journeys’ Perth Italy Painters
Exhibition runs: 15 March – 2 April 2024
Perth Italy Painters (PIPs) is a dedicated group of artists, brought together in 2019 through a shared love of art and travel. In that year, these budding artists toured Italy with renowned Watercolour artist Sue Hibbert. The group meets most weeks to sketch and paint in the outdoors. A solid bond, individual styles and thirst for adventure keep the group exploring life’s Journey.
The exhibiting artists are Lindsay Foster, Yve Gaunt, Pauline Ibbs, Ellisha Majid, Ingrid Rickersey, Robbie Roper, Felicity Simpson and Doris Strahan.
(Pictured: The Duyfken by Pauline Ibbs)
‘Our Feathered Friends’ John Warwick
Exhibition runs: 2 February – 20 February 2024
Local artist John Warwick is known for his landscape paintings depicting scenes from his heritage in Europe and Australia. In his previous series Birds of a Feather, the artist focused on the beauty and complexity of birds.
We are delighted for John’s work to return to our Kent Street Gallery where his love of the beauty found in creation is expressed from a personal dedication.
(Pictured: ‘Golden Eagle’ (detail) by John Warwick)
‘Blooming’ Jacqueline Coates, Jo Trezona, Diane Kingman, Patty Pearce
Exhibition runs: 22 January – 27 January 2024
Opening Event: Sunday 21 January, 2.00pm – 6.00pm
In ‘Blooming,’ a captivating group exhibition, four diverse artists converge to celebrate the timeless beauty of florals while offering a unique window into their multifaceted talents.
United under the theme of blooms and nature, and having trained with art mentor and painting teacher Jacqueline Coates at various stages of their journeys developing their own styles, each artist paints their own vivid interpretation, weaving together an exquisite tapestry of colours, textures and emotions.
Beyond this shared passion for blooms, they reveal a second, individual body of work, each a testament to their distinctive styles and creative voices.
‘Blooming’ not only captures the essence of nature’s delicate and intricate wonders but also showcases the artists’ artistic versatility, ensuring a vibrant and captivating journey through their collective and individual expressions.
(Pictured: Champagne Peony, Jacqueline Coates)
