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PICA is calling for artistic proposals!
PICA is currently accepting proposals from artists, companies, curators and producers for studio residencies, creative developments and/or the presentation of new work in and around PICA during 2013. Find out more here Continue Reading...
PICA is currently accepting proposals from artists, companies, curators and producers for studio residencies, creative developments and/or the presentation of new work in and around PICA during 2013. Find out more Here ...Close
$35,000 Dr Harold Schenberg Art Prize
PICA is proud to announce the 2012 winner of the $35,000 Dr Harold Schenberg Art Prize is Lachlan Petras, a recent graduate from Monash University (VIC), for his work entitled Aggregate, a video projection onto a concave sculptural object made up of over 300 plywood facets. Continue Reading...
The award was presented by Nick Dilorenzo, a trustee of The Dr Harold Schenberg Bequest, during the Hatched opening ceremony in the Perth Cultural Centre on Friday night. The judging panel was comprised of PICA Director, Amy Barrett-Lennard; Curator of Contemporary Australian Art at the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Jenepher Duncan; and Acting Curator of the Cruthers Collection of Women's Art at the University of Western Australia, Lee Kinsella.
The judges found their task particularly difficult when faced with an extraordinarily strong field of work by this year's participating Hatched artists. In addition to selecting the award winner they gave honourable mentions to artists Sarah Jane Haywood, Amina McConvell and Pip Stafford.
Recalling motifs from Velazquez and Francis Bacon and conflating cinematic tropes with architectural structures, Aggregate presents the viewer with two protagonists, a mirror-plated figure and a little person, with symbolic Superman and Transformers tattoos, who are situated within a wind tunnel facility - a strangely mysterious site that resembles a science fiction set, silo or space station.
PICA Director Amy Barrett-Lennard says, "When considering an artist for this award the judges were looking for a distinctive and individual approach, a refined visual language, conceptual rigour, technical excellence and clarity of communication. We got all this and more in Lachlan Petras' Aggregate, a fresh, intelligent, ambitious and refined work that lead us to believe that this graduate had the capacity to significantly further their career as an artist".
The Doctor Harold Schenberg Art Prize is awarded each year to one outstanding Hatched artist, enabling them to invest in the development of their practice through travel, research or production support.
Hatched: National Graduate Show 2012 continues until 10 June.
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Hijacked III goes on Tour
Hijacked III at PICA attracted interest from across the country and has resulted in the exhibition touring to Brisbane and Sydney. Continue Reading...
After the success of Hijacked III - Contemporary Photography from Australia & the UK at PICA, the exhibition will be touring around Australia. First stop will be Griffith University Art Gallery, Brisbane 27 April to 16 June and then onto the Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney 29 June - 19 August. This is a great accomplishment for the curators and artists. ...Close
Spark_Lab Artist in Residence
27 March 2012
In exciting news, one of Spark_Lab's current Artists in Residence at Mount Lawley Senior High School has been featured on Lost at E Minor Continue Reading...
Sustainable art creator Lloyd Godman, the ever-versatile James Berlyn and sound artist Tristan Parr from Decibel New Music Ensemble are currently working with students from Mount Lawley Senior High School towards a performance event at PICA in June... Watch this space for more info!
See Lloyd's work here or go to the blog post here. ...Close
Louise Clements Illustrated Lecture
20 March 2012
Louise Clement's lecture Calling was a hit with Perth's photo lovers Continue Reading...
This is a free event and the PICA Bar will be open.
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Photography Talk at PCP
18 March 2012
The Bureau of Ideas and Big City Press present Sense and Sensibility in Photography at Perth Centre of Photography
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Featuring:
Louise Clements
Photographic Festivals - Laboratories of the Future
Daniel Palmer
Collaborative Moments in Contemporary Photography
Robert Cook
Embrace the Silence - Reasons Never to Talk About (capital P) Photography
Chaired by Juha Tolonen
Where: Perth Centre for Photography, 100 Aberdeen St Northbridge
When: Sunday 18 March 10.30am-12.30pm
Price: $5
Don't miss this!
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Hijack the Streets with your camera!
6 March 2012
PICA is running an online photo competition looking for the best snapshots taken in our local neighbourhood (Northbridge) that respond to the idea of oblique portraiture.
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1st Prize: Digital printing package worth $300 from Fitzgerald Photo Imaging
2nd Prize: A copy of the stunning, new 420-page, full-colour Hijacked III compendium, published by Big City Press!
3rd Prize: A $50 gift voucher to Brave New World clothing!
Entries close: 30 March 2012, 6pm Click here for more details!
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Hijacked III Opens
17 February 2012
The wait is over.... Hijacked III exhibition is open! Continue Reading...
With the new PICA bar being open, and the Hijacked pop-up shop taking over the reading room, it is shaping up to be one hell of an exhibition. Don't miss it! ...Close