Past Exhibitions

‘Nga Toenga – What we leave behind’ Shannon Frankis

Exhibition runs: 28 August – 15 September 2026
Opening event: Friday 28 August, 5.30pm-7.30pm

An exploration of cultural identity, love, loss and how current culture fed through the media affects tradition. A combination of large and small atmospheric works with an emotional residue of things lost and things left behind.

These works are predominantly female portraits or figures in private moments with bicultural ethnicity, carrying cultural motifs which can be read as autobiographical – Polynesian/Maori/English.

(Pictured: Te Waka whero i te Ngahere (Red Canoe in the Forest), 2023)

‘An Unnatural History of Moths’ Christopher Crouch and Cherish Marrington

Exhibition runs: 7 August – 25 August 2026
Opening event: Friday 7 August, 6.00pm-8.30pm

‘An Unnatural History of Moths’ is a collection of drawings and watercolours based on the concept of camouflaged moths. The moths are fictitious and exist in a fictitious landscape, but the principles of camouflage remain. They are both apart from the landscape and pretending to be it. The world that is depicted is a figment of the artist’s imagination, and the process by which they are made involves Christopher Crouch and Cherish Marrington working on the same work, creating a space that is coherent but alienating. This show is a part of an ongoing body of work.

‘We are faced with an environmental catastrophe where an established cannon of beauty means nothing as forests die, species vanish and the natural world that we thought would give us solace forever burns and floods and changes into something new.’

‘Beyond Vision’ VisAbility Group Exhibition

Exhibition runs: 17 July – 4 August 2026
Opening event: Friday 17 July 2026, 5.30pm-7.30pm

Beyond Vision is the Community Activity Centre (CAC) at VisAbility’s first public art exhibition featuring 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)

’50 Years of Deadly’ Celebrating Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander voices, culture and empowerment

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 and Ngaanyatjarra artists of the Great Victoria and Gibson Desert areas: Jasmine Lawson, Linda Eddy, Marcia Thompson, Joyce Nelson, Melissa Holland, Phillipa Butler, Moya Porter, Sylvia Robertson, Selena Lane, Harley West and Rosie Lane.

VPCA are grateful for the support from Dept of Communities, Monadelphous Group & Bush Blossom Gallery, Kalgoorlie in developing this initiative. VPCA is a recipient organisation of financial support from the Town of Victoria Park.

(Pictured: Selena Lane ‘Creeks and Sandhills’)

2026 Winter Solstice Artisan Pop up

Event runs: 19 – 21 June 2026

‘Fragments of Tranquility’ Lynley Jakowyna

Exhibition runs: 5-16 June 2026
Opening event: Friday 5 June, 5.30pm-7.30pm
Weekend gallery hours: Saturdays and Sundays 10.00am-4.00pm

Lynley Jakowyna presents a collection of mosaic works depicting the Australian landscape. Experimenting with different techniques and materials, Lynley is constantly challenging herself to develop and extend her knowledge in order to create the desired effects of dimension, realism, reflectivity and perspective of a painterly style of mosaic making.

Inspiration for these pieces usually comes from different aspects of the natural beauty of our country or the desire to create an atmosphere or represent an emotion in the finished piece. The mosaics are the artist’s interpretation of these images with which she has a personal connection.

‘Ancient and Ephemeral’ Sarah Eve

Exhibition runs: 21 May – 2 June 2026
Opening event: Friday 22 May, 5.30pm-7.30pm

An exploration of the Australian landscape, inspired by ancient rock formations that have stood as silent witnesses to the evolution of land, life and humanity. Through Abstract Realism, Sarah Eve reinterprets these landscapes with colours drawn from memory and experience, evoking a sense of awe, connection and contemplation. The exhibition
reflects on our impermanence in contrast to the enduring power of the land, inviting audiences to consider their own relationship with place and their responsibility toward environmental respect and preservation.

(Pictured: Sarah Eve, Golden Indijup)

‘What Remains’ Brianne Sharp and Kasia Kolikow

Exhibition runs: 1 May – 19 May 2026
Opening event: Friday 1 May, 5.30pm-7.30pm
Weekend gallery hours: Saturdays 9th and 16th, 10.00am-2.00pm

‘What Remains’ is a collection of new works that brings together the practices of Brianne Sharp and Kasia Kolikow, exploring themes home, belonging and memory.

By privileging slow, deliberate processes, Brianne and Kasia create a dialogue between materials
and place, reflecting on how the act of making can become a way remembering and preserving what home means.

(Pictured: ‘Relics’, Brianne Sharp)

‘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.

‘Tracing the Invisible’ North Metro Tafe Student Exhibition 

‘Understory’ Cally Nelson

Exhibition runs: 19 March 2026 – 30 March 2026
Opening event: Friday 20 March, 5.30pm-7.30pm

Working in acrylic on paper and canvas, Cally Nelson explores her relationship with the environment through the depiction of natural settings in an intuitively driven process.

In particular she expresses her love of trees, birds, colour and movement through these paintings.

‘Blooming Suburbs Series 1: Victoria Park’ Joanna Hiu

Exhibition runs: 27 February 2026 – 17 March 2026
Opening event: Friday 27 February, 6.00pm-7.30pm

‘Blooming Suburbs’ is a pressed flower series inspired by the suburbs many of us move through without slowing down. Each work is created from flowers gathered within the neighbourhood it represents, with Series 1 beginning in Victoria Park. The blooms are vessels for the voices of local gardens, small businesses and creative spaces. This exhibition reflects on the people who shape this community and the quiet connections that make a place feel like home.

‘Assemblage’ 

Exhibition runs: 6 February – 24 February 2026
Opening event: Friday 6 February, 5.30-7.30pm
Weekend open hours: Saturdays and Sundays, 10.00am-2.30pm

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
Weekend gallery hours: Saturdays, Sundays and Public Holidays 10.00am-3.00pm

Artist talk: Sunday 25 January 2026, 1.00-2.00pm
Workshop: Sunday 25 January 2026, 11.00am or 2.00pm | Register here

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)

‘Serendipity’ Jill Ansell evening classes 

Exhibition runs: 7 November – 25 November 2025
Opening event: Friday 7 November, 6.00pm-8.00pm

This delightful and diverse group of artists met at the evening painting classes run by Jill Ansell.
Varied in their approach and subject matter, they are unified in their love of painting and exploring the medium.

(Pictured: Vanessa Bradley, Colleen Gent)

‘Heartland’ Barbara Maumill

Exhibition runs: 17 October – 2 November 2025
Opening event: Friday 17 October, 5.30pm – 7.30pm

Barbara Maumill’s intimate paintings celebrate the quiet and memorable moments of observing small country towns, their streets and established local community environments.

Barbara’s paintings are closely observed gems of regional WA’s light, skies and landscape. Barbara is a regular exhibitor and award winner in many juried WA art awards.

(Pictured: ‘Steer Street Sunrise’ Barbara Maumill)

‘Acid Utopia: Judgment Day’
Anthony Kelly, Guillermo Kramer, Lyle Branson, Peter Carlino

Exhibition runs: 27 September – 11 October 2025
Opening event: Saturday 27 

‘Acid Utopia: Judgment Day’ is the follow-up to the 2020 exhibition ‘Acid Utopia’, reuniting artists Anthony Kelly, Guillermo Kramer, Lyle Branson and Peter Carlino. Against the backdrop of growing global uncertainty, the exhibition explores how utopian dreams — shaped and distorted by late capitalism — transform into hybrid or dystopian realities.

Through mixed media, the artists examine the friction between idealistic visions and their often-compromised outcomes. ‘Acid Utopia: Judgment Day’ invites viewers to reflect on the shifting nature of hope, power, and imagination in an increasingly unstable world.

(Pictured: ‘An Emergency’ (detail), Peter Carlino)

‘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.

View Virtual Tour here

Catalogues compiled by Kat Gregory: Real Estate for Sale @ Raymond St | House Designs | Debra Long – A Retrospective

(Pictured: Malcolm Burgess)

‘Connecting through Colour and Canvas’ Art Connection

Exhibition runs: 15 August – 2 September 2025

Art Connection is a large collective of Perth artists, some professional and others enthusiastic amateurs. The work in ‘Connecting through Colour and Canvas’ covers an eclectic range of subject matter and styles. The group is delighted to share their passion for creativity with you with the exhibition of these works.

Pictured: Artwork (detail) by Graham Bonner

‘The 14’ Artists from Watercolours WA

Exhibition runs: 25 July – 11 August 2025

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)

‘FACES / of what was, is and is to be’ by John Adams

Exhibition runs: 03 July – 06 July 2025
Opening event: Wednesday 2 July, 5.30-7.30pm

International visiting artist John Adams is artist in residence at Ursula Frayne College. The exhibition provides an opportunity for the local community of Perth to experience John’s unique take on traditional painting techniques that he has shared with the staff and students of Ursula Frayne College in Victoria Park. The work is available for purchase.

(Pictured: ‘Colours of Life’ & ‘Sacredness’)

‘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)

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.