In the Main Gallery

The Main Gallery is the primary gallery space with corridor at the front of the cottage available for medium and large-scale exhibitions and projects. 


Current Exhibition


‘The Vic Park Community Portrait Prize’ Victoria Park Community Centre

Exhibition runs: 22nd April – 29th April 2025

The Victoria Park Community Centre have welcomed those who live, work or play in the Vic Park area, to try their hand at portraiture to capture the faces, tales and diversity of this wondrous community!
This prize was open to ALL ages, stages and styles and is being supported by the Town of Victoria Park as part of Arts Season 2025.
 
(Pictured: Elly Hope, ‘Loss’ of Naomi Segal)


Upcoming Exhibitions


‘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.


‘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: Local History Awards 2023 Exhibition)


Past Exhibitions


Town’s Art Collection

Exhibition runs: 3-16 April 2025
 
Explore a curated selection of new First Nations acquisitions and beloved pieces that celebrate the rich tapestry of our community. This exhibition highlights the connections between our people, places, and the vibrant stories that shape our town.
 
(Pictured: ‘Dancing Douglas the Deliberate’ Tyrown Waigana)


‘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

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A group exhibition showcasing the work of 26 artists from the Western Australian Oriental Culture and Art Association, who have been active in the community for over 20 years. Curated by local artist Jane Li, this collection embraces calligraphy and painting in a celebration of Chinese artists currently working in Perth/Western Australia.
 
This exhibition is supported by Department of Communities as part of the Empowering Communities Programme.
 
(Pictured: ‘Marri Forest Watercolour’ (detail), Jane Li)
 


‘Total Hero Public Woman’ Public Woman Collective

Exhibition runs: 28 February – 18 March 2025
Exhibition opening: 28 February 2025, 5.30-7.30pm

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Total Hero Public Woman explores internal and external struggles women experience in 2025, and how their bodies can be the site of global-scale, instantaneous public scrutiny. Women’s bodies are governed, abused, dominated, objectified, adorned, and modified, cut up and stitched back together. This exhibition puts front and centre the question of how much of this is within our control, as a measure of the power we can expect and reclaim.
 
Exhibiting artists are Louise Rae, Isis Dorado, Lauren Broom, Yasmin Soto, Bethan Power and Phoebe Campbell.
 
(Pictured: Yasmin Soto ‘Glistening in visceral pain #2’)
 


‘Radial Ecologies’ Scott Price

Exhibition runs: 7 February – 25 February 2025
Opening event: Friday 7 February, 5.30pm–7.30pm
Weekend gallery hours: Saturday 22nd and Sunday 23rd, 11.00am-4.00pm

Radial Ecologies is a site response to Swan River. It is an alternative approach to landscape; an attempt to close the gap with nature. Paperbark and leaves are set upon the surface of the paper, washed with watercolour, still wet. Capillary action traces the material elements of the site as they touch the paper, travelling the narrow spaces of their texture. They leave their mark, like fingerprints, as the pigment pools and dries in the friction ridges. The blackened fingers of burnt eucalypts trace their way across the surface of the paper, washed by yellow ochre.

(Pictured: Njookenbooroo (Herdsman Lake) – Red Wattlebird, Australian White Ibis, Purple Swamphen V)


VPCA Members’ Exhibition 2024

Exhibition Dates: 29 November 2024 – 17 December 2024
Opening event: Friday 29 November, 5.30pm-7.30pm

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.

(VPCA Members’ Exhibition 2024 – Alison Hanrahan, Karina Eguchi, Barbara Van Gool)


‘YODyssey – The art of living well with Young Onset Dementia’

Exhibition runs: Friday 8 November – 26 November 2024

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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)


‘swallow’ Emma Purkis and Lili Renfrey

Exhibition runs: 18 October – 5 November 2024
Opening event: Friday 18 October, 5.30pm-7.30pm
Artist talk: Sunday 3 November, 2.00pm
Weekend gallery hours: Saturdays and Sundays 10.00am-3.00pm

Emma Purkis and Lili Renfrey are emerging artists based in Boorloo, WA. The artists explore themes of identity, femininity and acceptance. 

Emma’s themes of mental heath, memory and companionship, reflect on perceptions of mental illness and isolation through the mediums of sculpture and drawing.

Combining grotesque and aesthetic imagery, Lili explores the body and food through the female gaze, inviting the audience to engage with the work on a personal and subjective level.

(Pictured: Emma Purkis | photographed by Bo Wong (left) and Lili Renfrey (right))


‘Paper + Porcelain’ Melanie Sharpham

Exhibition runs: 17 August – 2 September 2024
Artist talks: Sun 18th August 1.00-2.00pm and Sun 25th August 1.00-2.00pm

“I like the idea of people using and living with my artwork every day, that it becomes a part of their lives, their families, their histories. Life is too fleeting not to use beautiful things.”

With a 28 year passion for clay Melanie Sharpham, the creative behind Eucalypt Homewares, is inspired by Western Australia’s natural landscapes. Copper plate etching is her recent infatuation, finding joy in incorporating the two process driven disciplines.

Paper + Porcelain, Melanie’s first solo exhibition, is a collection of her botanical line drawings, translated as limited edition etched prints for your walls and porcelain vessels and installations for your homes.


‘Reflection’ Jane Li

Exhibition runs: 26 July – 13 August 2024

Jane Li has been fascinated with the diverse scenery, fauna and flora, since her arrival to Australia. Her exquisite art works reflect the fusion of Eastern and Western Fine Art skills.

Having had the privilege of travelling to places within Australia, she likes to photograph, sketch and paint the many things she encounters. This exhibition is a collection of some of her artworks from these places that have left such an impression.

(Pictured: Rose Mallee Watercolour (detail), Jane Li)


‘Keep the Fire Burning! Blak, Loud and Proud’

Exhibition runs: 16 July – 23 July 2024
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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)


‘Mapping Memories’ Sia Smyth

Exhibition runs: 15 June – 30 June 2024
Opening event: Friday 14 June 5.30 – 7.30pm
Gallery open weekends: 10.00am – 4.00pm
Artist talk: Saturday 22 June, 10.30 – 11.30am 

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Mappa definition (Latin): Napkin, or painted cloth. By using reclaimed fabrics Sia Smyth co-opts the past life of the cloth to imbue her artworks with the patina of time. The intimacy of covering the body with these memory cloths, softly comforts and encloses the user.

These pieces use some of the conventions of traditional patchwork and reconfigure them for contemporary tastes. Sia has experimented with modes of construction to discover this new medium as her expression of creative practice.

(Pictured: ‘Dreaming of colourful weekends’ (detail) by Sia Smyth)


‘Colour Stories’ Jill Ansell’s Thursday Evening Acrylic Class

Exhibition runs: 24 May – 11 June 2024
Opening event: Friday 24 May, 6.00 – 8.00pm
Gallery open weekends: Sundays 11.00am – 2.00pm

This group paint weekly under the guidance of Jill Ansell. They are a gregarious and delightful class and their work ranges from delicate florals to portraits to huge sea creatures. They have in common a commitment to painting, an affection for chocolate biscuits and a determination to explore form and colour.

These works reflect what the artists have been working on for the past year. There is also a group work that explores complementary colour and the theme of what we treasure. Part proceeds from the sale of these small works is being donated to a local charity.

(Pictured: Artwork by Malena Budgen)


‘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.


‘Jila Kujarra: Two Snakes Dreaming’ Desmond Taylor and Mariaan Pugh

Exhibition runs: 18 April – 29 April 2024

‘Jila Kujarra: Two Snakes Dreaming’ is an exciting cross-cultural collaboration between Warnman artist Desmond Taylor and Boorloo-based textiles practitioner Mariaan Pugh, commissioned by Fremantle Arts Centre in partnership with Martumili Artists. Taylor and Pugh have worked together to transform Taylor’s Niminjarra paintings, usually seen on canvas or paper, into highly tactile textile works, animating the important Niminjarra Jukurrpa (Dreaming).

“Niminjarra is the two brothers transforming into a snake so they can come back home to Ngayartakujarra (Lake Dora). They were in training for ceremony, those two brothers, but they were kept too long, and nobody was there to release them. They waited then they decided to transform into snakes to travel back to where they came from, because their mother was waiting for them. This is Jukurrpa (Dreaming story)”

– Desmond Taylor, 2019

Showing as part of Town of Victoria Park’s 2024 Arts Season.

(Image Credit: Desmond Taylor and Mariaan Pugh, ‘Jila Kujarra: Two Snakes Dreaming’ at Fremantle Arts
Centre, 2022. Photography by Dan McCabe.)


‘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

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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)


‘Video Game Worlds’ Cameron Howard

Exhibition runs: 23 February – 12 March 2024

‘Video Game Worlds’ is a series of representational paintings that appropriate the visual aspects of game-play from role-playing video games (RPG).

Through recreating the game-play, the paintings exaggerate and emphasize the visual aesthetic and qualities inherent to video games. The project focuses on the interaction between character, setting and the role of the player as a character. The camera’s point-of-view plays into the perception of the setting, altering our framing of the image and any possible meanings.

This project relocates the concepts of the sublime in our natural world to the digital landscape of video games.

(Pictured: ‘Act 1’ (detail) by Cameron Howard)


‘Opportunity Knocks’ John Lamborn

Exhibition runs: 2 February – 20 February 2024

‘Opportunity Knocks’ encompasses a body of work that embraces a wide range of subjects from the natural landscape of everyone’s favourite destinations to surreal images, abstract designs and everyday aspects of life.

John’s unique interpretations of numerous images allows for an immersion in colour as he continues to embrace and develop the essence of the subject matter.

A focus on experimenting with composition, multiple images and abstract concepts are often developed in the works providing clarity and light in several pieces. The colour and tonal value of these paintings unify different elements of the visual arts and provide an avenue to explore each artwork.

(Pictured: Lake Trail by John Lamborn)


‘Blooming’ Jacqueline Coates, Jo Trezona, Diane Kingman, Patty Pearce

Exhibition runs: 22 January – 27 January 2024

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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)


VPCA Members’ Exhibition 2023

Exhibition runs: 24 November – 6 December 2023

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Our annual Members’ Exhibition showcases the work of the talented local artists in our community. For 2023, VPCA is introducing a ‘People’s Choice’ Award for the most popular work in the exhibition.

(Pictured: Artworks from the Members’ Exhibition 2021)


‘Drawing Cosmic Mantra’ Jango Pramartha, Paul Trinidad, Made Wianta

Exhibition runs: 10 November – 22 November 2023
Opening Event: Friday 10 November, 5.30 – 7.30pm 

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An international collaborative exhibition between prominent Indonesian and Western Australian artists creating personal dialogues of connection and difference through the process of drawing.

Drawing Cosmic Mantra pays homage to the vitality shared in the artists’ working encounters. It explores the spirit of the times  towards a greater future understanding between Western Australia and Indonesia through their practice.

Curated by Yudha Bantono and Paul Trinidad.

(Pictured: ‘Barong Face’ by Made Wianta)


‘Going slow’ Ellie Biggs

Exhibition runs: 20 October – 8 November 2023
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Ellie Biggs reflects on slow travel/tourism and slow living, considering sustainable practice, appreciation for nature and culture. The exhibition embodies life and overground journeys both in Australia and overseas through a collection of acrylic and watercolour paintings.

Pictured: ‘Darwin dripstone’ (detail) by Ellie Biggs


‘Inspire’ Como Secondary College

Exhibition runs: 29 September – 18 October 2023

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This community-focused exhibition showcases the creative educative practice of Years 7-12 Como Secondary College students during 2023. The College’s Create@Como program provides opportunities to develop talents and explore feelings, thoughts and ideas through creative writing and the creative arts. The exhibition will feature Visual Arts, Media and Photography.

VPCA has fostered this collaboration as a commitment to working with and strengthening connections within our local community.


‘Neo-Burma: Chapter 1’ Aaron Seymour

Exhibition runs: 15 September – 27 September 2023
Opening Event: 15 September, 5.30pm – 7.30pm
Gallery open weekends
including public holiday Mon 25 September: 10.00am – 4.00pm

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Aaron Seymour has just finished his Master of Fine Arts from Curtin University. This solo exhibition will feature his art and design works that explore the contrasting methods, materials, iconography and stories of his Anglo-Burmese heritage and history. He honours the slower, older Buddhist traditions from where his artistic inspiration springs, whilst experimenting with modern-day technological processes. He has developed a personal process of autoethnography through this craft and finds it very deeply spiritual and practical.

“The process of designing through to crafting has deepened my emotional and spiritual ties to Myanmar, enabling me to connect personal stories to current and past cultural and political events. I hope to further explore how Burmese art, culture and history can be valued in contemporary art practice, and how these stories can take different forms of human interaction.”

Pictured: ‘Imperial Japanese Occupation of Burma [1942-45]’ by Aaron Seymour


‘Baring All’ Configurists

Exhibition runs: 1 September – 13 September 2023
Opening Event: Friday 1 September, 5:30pm – 7:30pm
Gallery opens weekends: 10:00am – 4:00pm

At the core of our group is a love and appreciation of life drawing. As an artistic practice, life drawing challenges each of us every week to observe and capture the intrinsic beauty of the human form in “real life”. This exhibition is a transition out into the wider community giving other people the opportunity to view and appreciate that beauty in ways that they may not have considered nor had access to before – observers to our observed work.

Pictured: (Detail of) ‘Entwined’ by Michelle Grimwade


‘Paper Royale’ Create Connect Artists

Exhibition runs: 18 August – 30 August 2023

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The annual exhibition of works from Victoria Park Centre for the Arts’ long-standing visual art workshop program for artists working with acute disabilities.

‘Paper Royale’ presents many a creation on paper. There is a broad range of works that give an insight into the art created in these workshops. Facilitated by Rosie Vinicombe and Peter Carlino.

Pictured (from left to right): (Detail of) ‘Charcoal Drawing’ by Delores Purdy; (Detail of) ‘Stick Figure’ by Michael Barker


‘Inside/Outside’ Helen Majewski

Exhibition runs: 4 August – 16 August 2023
Opening Event: Friday 4 August, 5:30pm – 7:30pm

Inside/Outside looks with curiosity at the world around us—at the stuff we keep, the stuff we throw away, and the stuff we are surrounded by. These paintings and drawings—still lifes and urban landscapes—remind us to pay attention to the forms and accidental compositions of familiar objects and mundane scenes. The still life paintings, with their intrusions of rubbish and recyclables like plastic bags, hint at the tradition of memento mori, reminding us of our mortality. Inside/Outside invites the viewer to pause and notice the strange beauty of our everyday world.

Pictured: ‘Carson Street Car Park’ by Helen Majewski


‘Human/Nature’ Abdulrahman Albishi, Zali Morgan, Ella Van Leeuwin, Tahlia Dunne, Sophie Nixon, E. J. Palmer

Exhibition runs: 19 July – 2 August 2023

‘Human/Nature’ aims to explore the relationship between the human body and the surrounding environment, specifically the ways in which the body is affected and shapes our understanding of place. Through a range of mediums including sculpture, painting, printmaking and installation art, the exhibition will investigate how the body inhabits, interacts with and leaves traces on the landscape.

‘Human/Nature’ will showcase works by a diverse group of emerging artists, each with a unique approach to the theme.

Pictured: ‘Goolugatup’ by Zali Morgan


 ‘For Our Elders’ NAIDOC 2023 

Exhibition runs: 30 June – 12 July 2023
Opening Event: Friday 30 June, 5:30pm – 7:30pm

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We are honoured and excited to be working with local Wadandi/Minang/Koreng Bibbulmun artist Lea Taylor again. Lea will be sharing weaving works created with students from Clontarf Aboriginal College.  

Monika Dvorak’s Bush Blossom Gallery, Kalgoorlie, are showcasing works from the Dimer family, who they have represented for three generations. The work of young artist/designer Jenae Evans from Laverton Community is represented courtesy of the work of Sabine Bird, coordinator of the Laverton Cycling Project.

The exhibition is supported by local business Monadelphous Group, who are headquartered in Victoria Park, The Cycling Development Foundation, Great Boulder Resources, Shire of Laverton and Gold Roads.

Pictured: (Detail of) ‘Waterhole Stories’ by Beige Dimer


‘Our Second Home’ Joshua Go and Shengxi Li

Exhibition runs: 16 June – 28 June 2023
Opening Event: Friday 16 June, 5:30pm – 7:30pm

Local Perth based artists Joshua Go and Shengxi Li celebrate their experience of Western Australia’s unique natural and built environments in naturalistic painterly styles.

Pictured (from left to right): (Detail of) ‘The Flood’ by Joshua Go; (Detail of) ‘Collier Park Golf Course’ by Shengxi Li


‘Local History Awards’ Town of Victoria Park

Exhibition runs: 27 May – 14 June 2023
Awards Presentation (by invitation only): Friday 26 May, 5:30pm – 7:30pm

The Town of Victoria Park Local History Awards promote interest in the rich history of the Town by encouraging the community to explore local identities, significant events and heritage relevant to the area.

The awards and ability to add to our local history collection mean we are able to preserve the oral, written and visual history of the Town for future generations. All of the entries into the Awards become part of the Local History Collection.

There will be two prizes awarded in each category (Winner $700 | Runner up $300): Personal Memoirs, Original Research, Photographic Memories and Original Poetry or Performance Work.

Pictured: Rosenthal Family, c. 1910. Local History Collection, Town of Victoria Park Library


‘Shared Journey’ Early Start Australia

Exhibition runs: 5 May – 24 May 2023

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Early Start Australia’s (ESA) East Victoria Park Clinic is a therapy service for individuals from early ages through to adult years. The focus of ESA’s individual and group therapy services is to build capacity to support a good life. Our service has shared the art of participants in an annual exhibition at the Kent Street Gallery for the past ten years (formerly KZ Speech).

Art can be a form of exploration, expression, identity and ability. This year, ‘Shared Journey’ will bring together many pieces of artwork for your enjoyment, by individuals of all ages and abilities.


‘Tracing Absence’
Robyn Bernadt, Natalie Blomfield, Chris de Sira, Shanti Gelmi, Louise Grimshaw and Laura Sikes

Exhibition runs: 14 April – 3 May 2023
Opening Event: Friday 14 April, 5:30pm – 7:30pm

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‘Tracing Absence’ brings together a multidisciplinary group of ECU alumni and friends, interpreting the themes of absence, loss and the ways in which absence is made present, through personal experiences, diverse practices and approaches to materials.


‘Embodied’ Louis Everall, Luka Buchanan, Martin Cahill

Exhibition runs: 24 March – 12 April 2023

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As part of the Town of Victoria Park’s 2023 Arts Season, Kent Street Gallery presents ‘Embodied’ showcasing the work of local artists, Louis Everall, Luka Buchanan and Martin Cahill.

The work of Louis Everall, Luka Buchanan and Martin Cahill, references the body as a site for reflection from differing approaches. Through the use of the figurative subject, a fresh reflection on vulnerability, questioning and fragility, is explored by three of Perth’s most promising young artists.

Exhibition curation and design, Matt Armenti and Long Nguyen.


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YODyssey 2023—The Art of Living Well with Young Onset Dementia

Exhibition runs: 3 March – 22 March 2023

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An exhibition of creativity, self-discovery and identity, while navigating the journey of Young Onset Dementia.

 Linda Gordon (Feature artist)
Linda grew up in York, England and lived above the family’s art shop which may have been the birth of her creative and artistic talents. Upon immigrating to Australia, Linda threw her creativity into fashion and costume design. After 20 years of experience working in the Perth fashion industry and mid-way through her Diploma of Live Production and Technical Services (Costume), Linda was diagnosed with young onset dementia. Although her ability to design and create fashion faded, her creativity did not. She returned to painting and other forms of visual arts as it provided a valuable resource to express her emotions that she was otherwise struggling to release.

With the support of her family, Linda presents this exhibition to raise awareness of young onset dementia and to illustrate that it is still possible to live a full life after a diagnosis of dementia.

Keith Bleach (Supporting artist)
Keith [Artist/Turner] has always had a passion for anything made with wood. As a youngster at school, he learned many basic woodworking techniques which he was then able to use in adulthood with building and repairs around the home in his free time.

In his early fifties he took up woodturning but didn’t have the time to perfect his skills while also running his own very successful business. Retirement came early when symptoms of dementia at 62 began to severely impact his work. He enjoys his time working in his well-equipped home workshop, producing an abundance of varied wooden articles.

While some of his skills are not what they used to be as the symptoms of dementia take hold, he frequently becomes frustrated as things don’t turn out as well as he would wish. However with the help and support from a small group of dedicated friends and family, he continues to turn out some pretty amazing pieces.

He is a popular demonstrator at his local woodturning club, and is passionate sharing his skills with anyone who asks.

Supported by YODyssey, Young Dementia Network WA and Mind The Change Inc

Pictured: (Detail of) ‘Yes’ by Linda Gordon


‘The World Through My Eyes’ Blaz Delic

Exhibition runs: 20 January – 8 February 2023
Opening Event: Friday 20 January, 5:30pm – 7:30pm

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Adorning with bright colours and beautiful birds, ‘The World Through My Eyes’ explores the relationship between nostalgia and the artist’s immediate surroundings.

With influences of Croatian folk tales and the native flora and fauna of Croatia, these works have been created with both traditional and modern elements. Ever since Blaz was a child, he has been fascinated with his surroundings, both at home and here in Perth, where he currently resides.

Pictured: (Detail of) ‘Paige’ by Blaz Delic


‘Hidden Treasures’

Exhibition runs: 13 January – 16 January 2023

Head of the World Federation of Arab Fine Artists Australia Branch, Lina Al-Ani happily presents art exhibition Hidden Treasures. Hidden Treasures features the work of many great Australian and international artists and unearths pieces that are evoking, personal and visually stunning.

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