Each year, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts\u2019\u00a0Hatched: National Graduate Show\u00a0presents artworks by outstanding graduates from across the country.\u00a0Hatched\u00a02025 features the works of 23 artists from 20 tertiary art schools who were nominated by their lecturers and selected by a panel comprising Shannon Lyons (artist,\u00a0Hatched\u00a0alumni 2005, WA), Tristen Harwood (art critic and writer, VIC) and Gemma Ben-Ary (curator, PICA, WA).\u00a0Hatched 2025\u00a0is curated by PICA\u2019s newly appointed Hatched Curatorial Associate (2025-2026), Mia Palmer-Verevis.<\/p>\n
Open Tuesday to Sunday 12-5pm.<\/p>\n
Jump Cuts<\/a>\u00a0at Walyalup Fremantle Arts Centre, Moores Building Art Space (2 August to 8 September)<\/p>\n An exhibition by Irish artist and organiser Kate O\u2019Shea and artist-architect Aideen O\u2019Donovan, with invited collaborators. Long-time friends and creative partners from the southwest of Ireland, O\u2019Shea and O\u2019Donovan bring an experimental, collaborative practice to this immersive exhibition.<\/p>\n Also at Walyalup Fremantle Arts Centre are David Shrigley\u2019s\u00a0Tennis Ball Exchange<\/a>\u00a0(4 August to 7 September) and the\u00a047th Print Award<\/a>\u00a0(16 August to 21 September).<\/p>\n Open everyday 10am-3pm.<\/p>\n Cathy Blanchflower: Aeon<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Eveline Kotai: Road Trip Continued<\/a>\u00a0at Art Collective WA (9 August to 13 September)<\/p>\n Cathy Blanchflower unveils a series of new paintings in this exhibition that brings together works from her ongoing\u00a0Lithic\u00a0series and those created during a 2025 residency in Bangkok, Thailand. Meanwhile, panoramic paintings by Eveline Kotai trace a journey through the seasonal Karri forests of Margaret River.\u00a0<\/p>\n Open Wednesday to Friday 11am-4pm and Saturday 12-4pm.<\/p>\n Artist in Print<\/a>\u00a0at Linton & Kay Galleries, Subiaco (11-31 August)<\/p>\n This group exhibition features works by Ken Done, Dean Home, Jo Darvall, Dominique Coiffait, Tommy Watson and Leon Pericles.<\/p>\n Open Monday to Sunday 10am-4pm.<\/p>\n Between the Sheets<\/a>\u00a0at Gallery Central (15 August to 18 September)<\/p>\n Between the Sheets\u00a0is an artists\u2019 books exhibition featuring Australian and international artists including Beth Evans, Jennifer Marshall, Lesley Le Grove and more. The exhibition is a collaboration between Gallery Central and Gallery East.<\/p>\n Open Monday to Friday 11am-4.30pm.<\/p>\n TAFE to FAME: 125 Years of Art and Design in Perth<\/a>\u00a0at no. 10 Gallery (until 23 August)<\/p>\n From its beginnings at the Perth Technical School in 1900 to the creative hub that the North Metropolitan TAFE is today, this exhibition of works by lecturers and graduates in photography, industrial design and visual art honours the journey and impact of TAFE education in WA. Artists include Julie Dowling, Nigel Hewitt, Brian McKay, Angela Stewart and more.<\/p>\n Open Wednesday to Friday 11am-5pm and Saturday 12-4pm.<\/p>\n My Country Stays in My Dreams<\/a>\u00a0at Artitja Fine Art Gallery (23 August to 7 September)<\/p>\n My Country Stays in My Dreams\u00a0continues the national exhibition program of work by the late Jaru artist, Janet Dreamer. Dreamer started painting at the age of 16 under her father\u2019s tutelage, but it was several decades later after she joined Yarliyil Arts in Halls Creek in 2013 that she started painting in earnest and with her own vision. Her vibrantly coloured canvases bring to life an extraordinary range of flora, wildlife and water life of Old Flora Valley Station in the east Kimberley.<\/p>\n Open everyday 10am-4pm.<\/p>\n KNOW MY NAME: Australian Women Artists<\/a>\u00a0at Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, University of Western Australia (until 30 August)<\/p>\n Know My Name: Australian Women Artists\u00a0is a National Gallery touring\u00a0exhibition that looks to moments when women created new forms of art and cultural commentary. This\u00a0exhibition that features more than 60 artworks by artists including\u00a0work by Grace\u00a0Cossington Smith, Margaret Preston and\u00a0Emily Kam Kngwarray.<\/p>\n Open Tuesday to Saturday 11am-4pm.<\/p>\n The West Australian Pulse 2025<\/a>\u00a0at Art Gallery of Western Australia (until 31 August)<\/p>\n WA\u2019s talented young artists are celebrated in this yearly showcase, gauging the pulse of young people who will influence, empower and shape the world we live in. This year\u2019s exhibition features 61 works by 2024 Year 12 Visual Arts graduates from 37 schools across WA.<\/p>\n Open everyday 10am-5pm.<\/p>\n Silence Listening: A Midwest Truth-Telling Exhibition<\/a>\u00a0at Museum of Geraldton (until 31 August)<\/p>\n Curated by Bard, Jawi Aamba (man) Ron Bradfield Jnr and George Criddle,\u00a0Silence Listening\u00a0explores the colonial histories of Jambinu (Geraldton) and Mullewa. The exhibition features works by two important Yamaji artists, the late Uncle Dr Brian Dodd McKinnon and Charmaine Papertalk Green, alongside British-Australian artist George Criddle. It responds to Charmaine Papertalk Green\u2019s concept of \u2018silence listening\u2019 \u2013 an intercultural and collaborative process addressing the violent colonial histories that have been actively denied within the settler narrative.<\/p>\n Open everyday 9.30am-3pm.<\/p>\n For a complete guide of Aboriginal art centres in WA visit the\u00a0Aboriginal Art Centre Hub Western Australia (AACHWA) website<\/a>.<\/p>\n Discover more arts, games and screen reviews on\u00a0ArtsHub<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0ScreenHub<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Free exhibitions are a great way to encounter art, whether it is at your local gallery or a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61888,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49925,64,63,15940,17846,49926,27960,44,45313,49924],"class_list":{"0":"post-61887","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-australia","8":"tag-agwa","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-exhibition","12":"tag-free","13":"tag-fremantle-arts-centre","14":"tag-ignite","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-pica","17":"tag-whatu2019s-on-perth"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Leon-Pericles_Seconds-Before-Goff-Sues-Life-Changed-Forever-2022_etching-hand-painted-with-collage_3.jpeg\")
Leon Pericles AM, \u2018Seconds Before Goff & Sue\u2019s Life Changed Forever (Edition of 150)\u2019, 2022. Image: Courtesy of the artist and Linton & Kay Galleries. <\/p>\n