ART ON THE MOVE provides subsidised tours of contemporary visual art exhibitions to regional and metropolitan venues. Each year at least 15 exhibitions tour to over 60 installations in Western Australia and Inter-state.
Information on the Exhibitions Program and our activities is communicated in our tri-annual Crate News and Exhibition Booking Sheets
Jeremy Kirwan-Ward: Colourblind #1, 1997 from Fertile Soil: 50 Years of the City of Fremantle Art Collection
Exhibitions
When you book an ART ON THE MOVE exhibition the cost share includes:
(Cost share quotes are inclusive of GST)
* Where funding permits
Our current list of touring Exhibitions follows:
Click here to see images of artworks from each current touring exhibition.
Abstract Earth
Abstract Earth is an exhibition of aerial photography by renowned WA photographer Richard Woldendorp. These photographs are like large abstract paintings revealing the patterns and intricacies of the Australian landscape from the air.
A Story to Tell In A Story to Tell, Nyoongar artist Laurel Nannup tells her own story, through woodcuts, etchings and photographs. These works illustrate the artist’s memories of place, particular events and people, all of which contribute to an overview of her life. At the age of eight, the Native Welfare Department took Laurel, her sister and her cousin away from the Pinjarra region and their families to the Wandering Mission where they lived and worked until they were old enough to work on farms in the area. The prints in Laurel’s exhibition are a reflection of her life, both with her family and mission life; the stories are told with honesty and affectionate humour and build up a unique picture of the reality of life for many Indigenous people of Laurel Nannup’s generation.
This is a retrospective exhibition of an artist who has made a significant contribution to the history and development of visual art in WA. Key works from collections from around Australia are on show highlighting Gregson’s mastery of colour, expressive technical skills and intense relationship to the act of painting.
This is a 51-piece photographic exhibition by newly formed artistic team, photo media artist Nic Montagu and curator/artistic director, Matt Dragun. Created using a distinct, documantary-style approach, Eight paths, One Journey explores the experiences of nine Australian yoga practitioners who have found a place for the ancient Eastern practice of yoga in their 21st Century Western lives.
Fertile Soil Fertile Soil is an exhibition of artworks selected from the City of Fremantle Art Collection. Twenty Western Australian artists are represented, most of whom have lived and worked in Fremantle and made an important contribution to the visual arts culture of the city. Artworks range from paintings, sculptures, photographs and prints to textiles and ceramics.
Forever and Easy This is an exhibition of rock and roll photography by Michael Wylie documenting twelve years of live music in Western Australia. The exhibition contains photos of big international stars such as Lenny Kravitz and Tina Turner as well as Australian and Western Australian acts.
Impact and Fusion Audio Visual Installations and wall objects created by bello benischauer and curated by elizabeth eitelberger prompting thought on the impact of human development and consumption on the natural resources of the planet.
Kimberley Aboriginal Artists - sharing difference on common ground
Kimberley Aboriginal Artists is a partnership between four prominent Kimberley art centres, aiming to share and celebrate the diversity, integrity and strength of Aboriginal culture and creativity. Kimberley Aboriginal Artists promotes the artists, artworks and activities of the four art centres, while advocating for the positive impact on remote area livelihoods enabled by strong, Aboriginal-owned and governed art centres. During planning, one of the priorities of the initiative was to hold a high quality touring exhibition, and Kimberley Aboriginal Artists - sharing difference on common ground is the result. The touring exhibition aligns with Kimberley Aboriginal Artists’ core philosophy of celebrating Aboriginal art, creativity and culture from the Kimberley with the widest possible audiences.
Me-take
Me-take brings together the work of three of the most exciting young Indigenous photo-media artists currently working in Australia, Christian Thompson, Dianne Jones and Tony Albert. The exhibition, curated by Eva Fernandez from the Perth Centre for Photography, focuses on self representation which examines, challenges and subverts notions of Indigenous representations.
Modified In his new exhibition entitled Modified, Western Australian artist Paul Caporn satirically engages with ideas of masculinity and cultural identity. Through installation artworks that comprise household objects such as a lawnmower, a ‘Weber’ barbeque and a tool box; familiar yet with a strangely unsettling twist, Caporn examines the very suburban activities of customising, DIY and obsessions with backyard tools and appliances and their related stereotypical rituals.
Drifting in My Own Land is an exhibition of recent artwork made from recycled and natural materials, by prominent WA fibre-textiles artist Nalda Searles. The exhibition is an expression of identity in relation to physical and social landscape.
On Track - Contemporary Aboriginal Art from Western Australia On Track showcases the work of 32 artists from the Kimberley, Pilbara, Western Desert, Murchison/Gascoyne and South-West regions, including senior and respected artists; Julie Dowling, Jody Broun and Norma MacDonald from Perth, Mary McLean from the Eastern Goldfields, Daisy Andrews and Butcher Cherel of Fitzroy Crossing, Donny Woolagudga from Derby, Shane Pickett, Primus Ugle and Sharyn Egan from the South-West and Alan and Peggy Griffiths of Kununurra. On Track has been funded and commissioned by the Department of Premier and Cabinet as part of the State’s 175th Anniversary Celebrations.
PICA Screen Selection See the world from a different perspective as cutting edge Australian and international artists present video work in PICA’s inaugural touring Screen Selection program.Challenging, thought provoking and awe inspiring, this selection of exhibitions provide a vast array of works to stimulate and engage a broad audience. The program includes animation, video, digital art, multi media, film clips, graphic design and short film. During 2007-2008 three of PICA’s Screen Selection exhibitions will be touring regional WA: Re-planted: small songs unearthed by weeding, Projekt Video Art Archives and Hijacked Video Zine. Re-planted: small songs unearthed by weeding As we travel through the impossible into the ethereal and the bizarre, the images and songs of Re-planted engulf us. Five artists from around the globe provoke a wide variety of responses as they explore aspects of the natural world, its evolution and its possibilities. Each vignette provides an aesthetic and soundscape vastly different from the other and manages to capture the inherent visual appeal of the world around us all.
Artists: 1st Avenue Machine (USA), Marek Brandt (GER), Jakub Dvorsky (CZ), Lycette Bros (AUS),
Fredo Viola (USA). Curated by Kirsten Bradley. PROJEKT Video Art Archives Projekt shows the evolution of video art through a plethora of moving image works reflecting Australia’s diversity. Projekt Video Art Archives contains Australian video art works exhibited between 1998 and 2003 in commercial, public and artist run galleries. With cultural centres now dedicated to the moving image, and most public institutions screening video art in their programs, it was felt that an archive should be set up from the grass roots level. Artists: Guy Benfield (VIC), Kathy Bossinakis (VIC), Philip Brophy (VIC), Peter Burke (VIC), Lane Cormick (VIC), Sue Dodd (VIC), Leslie Eastman (VIC), Alex Gawronski (NSW), Starlie Geikie (VIC), Shaun Gladwell (NSW), Emil Goh (NSW), Matthew Griffin (VIC), Robin Hely (VIC), Rebecca Ann Hobbs (VIC), Stephen Honegger & Anthony Hunt (VIC), Lyndal Jones (VIC), Jarrad Kennedy (VIC), The
Kingpins (NSW), Christopher Koller (VIC), Laresa Kosloff (VIC), Brendan Lee (VIC), Aylsa McHugh (VIC), Angelica Mesiti (NSW), TV Moore (NSW), Kate Murphy (NSW), David Noonan & Simon Trevaks (VIC), Sanja Pahoki (VIC), Dominic Redfern (VIC), Grant Stevens (QLD), Monika Tichacek (NSW), Daniel von Sturmer & Meri Blazevski (VIC), Gary Willis (VIC), Anne Wilson (VIC). Curated by Brendan Lee. Hijacked Video Zine
Hijacked is a survey of contemporary experimental video works from international artists. This confronting exhibition uses the concept of hijacking and being hijacked in a visually overloaded society to affect and influence. Moving images, mass media and communication conventions having been appropriated, reworked and re-interpreted into a diverse collection of works from artists from around the world.
Artists: Dfuse (UK), Donnachie & Simionato (IT/AUS), Candice Jee (AUS), Tove Krabo (SWE), P. Nicholas Ledoux (FR), Mark McPherson & Steven Drew (AUS), Jan Mathias Steinfort - mateuniverse (GER), Scott Pagano & Jochem Paap (USA/NDL) Pfadfinderei (GER), Pleix (FR), Sascha Pohflepp (GER), The Wilderness (NZ), Zietguised (GER), Emile Zile (AUS). Curated by Mark McPherson.
Pinjarra Massacre Memorial Project
This exhibition of artwork is the result of a project initiated as a memorial to the 1834 Pinjarra Massacre. This massacre of Indigenous people by white settlers, led by Governor James Stirling, is a dark day in WA’s history and a significant issue in the history of the WA country town of Pinjarra. The concept of the project was for 13 artists to visually interpret the actual event or Nyungar life before or after, whilst, as a tribute, adopting the name of one or more victims of the massacre. The high calibre of these Indigenous artists makes this a significant exhibition on a national level.
Tagged Tagged: C.C.C. is an exhibition of new multi-media work by Perth artist Minaxi May. The overriding theme of the exhibition is the impact of celebrity and consumerism on individuality. May has used herself to explore these issues, fusing images of her face with those of Elvis, Michael Jackson, Bjork and Madonna, using digital morphing techniques. May has rebranded these newly created ‘celebrities’ into commodities, objectifying, marketing and packaging them, presenting them in an installation of life-size cut out acrylic figures and digital wall works comprising posters, badges, video postcards and a billboard. Visit Minaxi May's website: www.minaximay.com
The Syndicate Project: Portraits & Proxies & Protagonists
Perth sculptor Simon Gilby has been commissioned to produce ten life size figures that explore aspects of humanity referencing images and text from popular culture, art history, religious and political imagery and propaganda. These confronting sculptures take the form of monuments of unknown protagonists.
Video Dome The artworks in Video Dome are all experienced inside a large inflatable dome. This is an immersive environment where viewers can see the Aurora Borealis, take a virtual journey back to the time of the formation of the Universe and experience other astronomical phenomena. Dave Carson has collaborated with Peter Wheeler and Paul Bourke to inspire and amaze. For more information on the project, go to David Carson's website http://www.davecarson.net
Over two and a half years, CAN WA's Voices of the Wheatbelt project has been exploring a sense of place and belonging through photography in the Wheatbelt. With 250 participants taking over 26 000 photos, this is the largest community arts project undertaken in CAN WA's 25-year history. The Voices of the Wheatbelt exhibition is a selection of photographs from the first phase of the project. Subjects include landscapes, portraits and sense of place.
