Past Exhibitions
2026
In her solo exhibition, Nicole Dickerson continues her exploration of family, cultural inheritance and memory.
In celebration of NAIDOC week, local Aboriginal women who attend Maali Deadly Yorgas at Midland Junction Arts Centre and Gynning Yorgas in Ellenbrook, share a selection of paintings that celebrate their connections to land, water, animals and family.
Presented by the WA Quilters Association, stitched and bound returns to MJAC in 2026 featuring new works that push the boundaries of contemporary quilting.
Rachelle Dusting explores the sacred and shifting terrain of identity, beauty and transformation through figurative and still life works.
In an interdisciplinary installation, Jon Tarry expands on artistic responses to mass transit in a constantly moving world.
2025
Emerging Curator Candice Nannup brings together a group of Yamaji and Noongar women artists whose practices centre on textiles and fibre art.
SULTANA SHAMSHI
Revisiting the Mughal Gardens is a 15-year retrospective of jewellery and sculptural forms translating identity, history and culture into Western Australian materials while exploring a personal response to injustices around the world.
VAHRI McKENZIE & GEMMA BEN-ARY
Ripairian celebrates Mandoon Bilya.
With a team of artists and local creatives, Vahri McKenzie is developing a new artwork about the river’s vulnerability to waste and neglect, and its vibrancy and resilience despite this.
Image: Artist Cass Tytler in Vahri McKenzie’s Ripairian. Photograph by Emily Fenner Wilson
Shaped by experiences, relationships and the ever-evolving landscapes of our lives, Nazerul Ben-Dzulkefli and Kasia Kolikow explore the intricate nuances surrounding home and belonging.
In complement to the offerings of Wedge: the Australian Ceramics Triennale, Vessels presents the works of 11 accomplished artists as they investigate the tension between function and form, contemporary techniques and traditional craft.
Annually, young artists are asked to respond to a theme created by the Hyper team for City of Swan. This year HyperVision turns 18, and invites young artists aged 12-25 to respond to the theme 'Reflect'.
An exhibition of visual poetry by artists and poets exploring identity and connection to language, and to this place.
Exploring how physical environments shape our experiences and identities through the medium of glass. This collection reflects the connection between space and personal perception.
Exploring artmaking as a transformative act, a daily meditative practice. Featuring monotypes, large-scale digital prints, contemporary jewellery and sculptural objects.
An exploration of outer-suburban life, featuring solo and collaborative works by Andy Quilty and students from three outer suburban high schools.
Presented by FORM and MAC Inc. as part of Perth Festival.
Parallel Paradigms celebrates the convergence of diverse artistic voices during a three-month residency in Midland Junction Arts Centre’s Veranda Studio in 2024.
Local artist Mollie Edgecombe, exhibits a range of artworks created over a 60-year period.
Following on from her 2024 artist in residence exhibition at MJAC which highlighted an extensive range of portraiture and landscape works, 2025 sees a shift in focus to her skills in fashion illustration, design, screenprinting and advertising.
A curated collection of precious objects, homewares and 2D artforms to imbue our lived environments, with a core focus on WA designers and makers.
Taking inspiration from the iconic landforms and architectural heritage of Midland Junction, invited artists form a shared experience, building the fabric of history and people connected with these places.
2024
Local artist Mollie Edgecombe, exhibits a range of artworks created over a 60-year period.
Following on from her 2024 artist in residence exhibition at MJAC which highlighted an extensive range of portraiture and landscape works, 2025 sees a shift in focus to her skills in fashion illustration, design, screenprinting and advertising.
A curated collection of precious objects, homewares and 2D artforms to imbue our lived environments, with a core focus on WA designers and makers.
Taking inspiration from the iconic landforms and architectural heritage of Midland Junction, invited artists form a shared experience, building the fabric of history and people connected with these places.
WA artists interrogate and reinvent their traditional disciplines to create carefully crafted artists’ books that unfold their connections to land, humanity and place.
Coincident investigates the connection between objects and images, drawing on the histories of craft and art.
Eminent West Australian ceramist Bernard Kerr’s fourth solo show explores how ceramic objects are displayed, represented, perceived, and used in Western culture. This exhibition aims to shape conversations around the puzzling phenomenological relationship between our interactions with, and perceptions of, objects and images. In this case, between hand -crafted ceramic objects and still life paintings.
Juxtaposing functional ceramic and trompe l’oeil objects with representational artworks, Coincident examines how functional ceramic objects, bounded by domesticity and ideas about craft, are camouflaged by our privileging of images and take on different meanings when presented as sculptural groups or images.
Carrying two perspectives, and presenting a bonded conversation between works, this time-capsule exhibition by mother and son covers the feelings, emotions and expressions related to the fleeting nature of childhood and the ensuing presence of parenthood, nurtured in a home set amongst the creative arts in the Perth hills.
Annually, young artists are asked to respond to a theme created by the Hyper team for City of Swan. This year they explore their interpretation of the word ‘Sweet’. Whether it is a fascination with sugary goods, emotive expressions, or 00’s slang, their unique perspectives cover photography, sculpture, traditional media, fashion/jewellery, short film, and experimental media.
stitched and bound, presented by the Western Australian Quilters Association, showcases the innovative range of current work being produced by Western Australian textile artists. This juried contemporary quilting exhibition features work that challenges the usual concept of the quilt medium, with artists focusing on making personal statements through the use of unconventional materials, techniques and ideas.
An artist-in-residence programme is offered in parallel with the exhibition.
CURATED BY SAMARA KING
Re.Collection celebrates the endurance of Aboriginal art and culture, exploring how archival photographs can be reclaimed and utilised as a connection to First Nations history and experiences. Historic Western Australian photographs feature Aboriginal life from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and build upon the ‘Returning Photos’ research project. New and existing works by First Nation artists Dianne Jones, Jarnda Councillor-Barns and Katie West respond to and reimagine archival photographs, sharing an insight into the active and timeless creation of First Nations art and culture.
2023
Step into the world of Midland’s LiveArt Studio and explore an exhibition that showcases paintings and drawings by six local artists who share a passion for portraiture.
Brought to you by the City of Swan, Connections to Home explores the local region and highlights the unique experiences and attractions available throughout the area.
Beyond Interpretations brings together artworks from the City of Swan Collection that respond to the diverse City environments, animating the textured stories of this unique area
The Drug Aware HyperVision exhibition, presented by the City of Swan Hyper Team, features the creative work of young individuals aged 15-25 from across WA, exploring the concept of 'Space' through traditional and experimental media. The exhibition offers a multidimensional journey, inviting visitors to discover the diverse interpretations of space in both physical and emotional realms.
In Focus
PRESENTED BY DADAA
Animalium explores the relationships, stories, and understanding of animals through the lived experiences of disability and/or mental illness. It creatively interprets these themes using various mediums including two and three dimensions, and augmented reality.
The exhibition features residency artists Kelly Grant, Justine Dalziel, Esa Nykanen, David Vella-Zarb, and Michael Pirie, alongside the works of DADAA Midland and Fremantle Studio Artists.
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This exhibition will be open to the public Tue - Fri 10am - 5pm and Sat - Sun 11am - 3pm
Nikki Green, Monika Lukowska and writer Reneé Pettitt-Schipp in partnership with Gondwana Link
Tracing Gondwana celebrates the ancient landscapes of the Great Southern – one of the richest Biodiversity Hotspots on the planet. This creative collaboration has resulted in a body of work responding to our current climate emergency. Weaving words and image through printmaking processes, Tracing Gondwana evokes a personal sense of hope amidst an extremely vulnerable and threatened ecological time.
2022
Nikki Green, Monika Lukowska and writer Reneé Pettitt-Schipp in partnership with Gondwana Link
Tracing Gondwana celebrates the ancient landscapes of the Great Southern – one of the richest Biodiversity Hotspots on the planet. This creative collaboration has resulted in a body of work responding to our current climate emergency. Weaving words and image through printmaking processes, Tracing Gondwana evokes a personal sense of hope amidst an extremely vulnerable and threatened ecological time.
Presented by the West Australian Quilters Association Inc
This biennial, juried exhibition displays the innovative work of Western Australian textile artists challenging the concept of the ‘quilt’ medium. 45 works have been selected for their skilful combination of traditional and unconventional quilted forms, pushing boundaries and making statements using progressive materials, ideas and techniques.
Presented by the City of Swan Hyper Team
Drug Aware HyperVision is an annual exhibition promoting the creative expression and talents of young people aged 15 - 25 years from across WA. This year’s exhibition showcases works across a diverse range of traditional and experimental media, including digital and sculptural installations. Artists have responded to the word 'time' and presented their interpretation of the relationship between time and the COVID-19 pandemic.
Presented by DADAA
Quiddity means the true nature of a thing or its essence. Featuring artists who work out of DADAA’s studios in Midland, Lancelin, and Fremantle, Quiddity explores differing ideas of portraiture. Each artist has gone beyond simply depicting their subject’s physical likeness, instead aiming to capture the essence of their subject using a variety of mediums and approaches.
Antony Muia
Developed during an artist residency at Midland Junction Arts Centre, this body of work is inspired by the unique flora and fauna found in Perth’s eastern suburbs and hills. Muia explores a synergy between figuration and the natural world and considers the history and traditions of the printmaking genre, including its strong ties to illustration and storytelling. These experimental etchings reflect both the representational qualities of our surroundings and the relationships of people with the environment.
Celebrating half a decade of creative endeavor at Midland Junction Arts Centre (MJAC), this Pop Up showcases a selection of bespoke handmade arts and crafts. Created by talented tutors, artists in residence and students who have contributed to making MJAC the creative hub it is today, this is a Gallery Shop to be experienced!
Shaping Space | Holding Space is a group exhibition that explores one of the fundamental principles of ceramics - the manipulation of space. When creating a vessel, it is not the shape that the maker focuses on but rather the space it contains. Space can be interpreted in both a literal and abstract sense and each artist has chosen to explore it through their own lens.
2021
Curated by Sarah Toohey
Toy Stories brings together artists, hobbyists, regional museums, and community groups in a showcase of contemporary and historic toys handmade in Western Australia from the early 1920s to today. The exhibition presents local craft, social history, contemporary art, and childhood experiences of past and present generations. It celebrates the imagination and creativity of hobbyist toymakers and professional artists alike; their optimism, humour, and unstoppable urge to play.
Curated by Leanne Bray
HOLD pays homage to functional basketry and the purposeful application of craft skills. It celebrates the domestic intent of baskets and the unique artistry behind them, capturing the spirit of their maker. This exhibition brings together contemporary makers and examples of historical basketry to commemorate this foundational artform, combining cultures, geographies, time periods, and communities.
Presented by the City of Swan Hyper Team.
HyperVision: Bloom asks artists to submit works that discuss, display, and explore their interpretation of the word ‘bloom’. What has been their greatest period of growth, prosperity, or productivity? What does it really mean to bloom, to shine? What inspires growth?
Presented by DADAA and curated by Oliver-Max Taylor.
A showcase of tactile and multi-sensory artworks intended to be touched, seen, heard and smelled.
Dylan Madurun
PRESENTED BY DADAA
An installation by emerging artist Dylan Madurun, whose arts practice connects a variety of subject matter with his favourite colour, blue.
Tom Freeman, Andre Lipscombe, Joana Partyka and Gemma Watson
Time passes quickly, drags on, accelerates. Time is punctuated by momentous events. Time languishes in archives. CRITICAL TIME brings together artists who keep time, waste time, or chronicle time, charting tempos through meditative, accumulating, and reflective practices.
Chloe Nolan
An immersive video installation by emerging artist Chloe Nolan drawing on the myth of Medusa to reimagine and disrupt the male gaze in Michael Douglas films.
Reece Cahill, Inez Edwards, Sarah McFarlane, Harrison Riekie
Bringing together the work of recent graduates from Perth’s tertiary art schools, Take Only Memories charts a pathway through landscapes as sites for history, communication, healing and contemplation.
SpatialCo (Leonie Matthews, Peter Hill & Fergus Egan), Tom Allum, Beth George, Kira Jovanovski, Matt Slocomb and Emerald Wise.
Responding to the iconic Canal Rocks site near Margaret River, artists and designers explore qualities of place at the edge of land and sea via a breadth of media; including laser scanning, photogrammetry, photography, drawing, video and sound recording.
Bringing together Aboriginal artists from across Western Australia with connections to Aboriginal Art Centre Hub of Western Australia (AACHWA) and Midland Junction Arts Centre, Yoowalkoorl, meaning come on, come here in Bibbulmun/Noongar is a blend of exhibition and marketplace celebrating the work of Indigenous artists from across the state.
2020
Bringing together Aboriginal artists from across Western Australia with connections to Aboriginal Art Centre Hub of Western Australia (AACHWA) and Midland Junction Arts Centre, Yoowalkoorl, meaning come on, come here in Bibbulmun/Noongar is a blend of exhibition and marketplace celebrating the work of Indigenous artists from across the state.
Presented by DADAA | CURATED BY OLIVER-MAX TAYLOR
The annual In Focus exhibition showcases artists connected to DADAA’s Midland Hub, joined this year by artists from Fremantle and Lancelin. In Focus is a celebration of creativity, perseverance and community, with participating artists each presenting their favourite work.
Over thirty artists from across the globe spread socially distanced creativity and love via many forms of printmaking - letterpress, intaglio, relief, lithography and digital. Brought to you by local studios Fresh Lemon Print and Bright Press.
Presented by City of Swan
Young artists working across disciplines showcase artworks that discuss, display and explore the concept of self. Artworks reflect on how the artists are seen by others and how they see themselves now and in the future as well as things learnt in isolation. Hypervision is an annual youth art exhibition and competition created and run by the City of Swan Hyper Team.
ADAM DERUMS, CLAIRE EDEN, JOHN EDEN, Franci Hepburn, VIVIENNE O’NEILL
Celebrating the work of visual arts teachers from Perth’s eastern region; Extra Curricular sheds light on the creative impulses that drive these educators. Teachers who maintain active independent practices present a selection of their work to spark a discussion about the role of creative skills in schools and our community.
Palestinian Threads and Stitches celebrates the living diversity of Palestinian identity within the Western Australian community. Handmade, traditional tatreez embroidery pieces are stitched together into a single cloth, just as the stories of the women who made them are stitched together with the common threads of identity.
REOPENING WED 10 JUN AND EXTENDED TO SAT 22 AUG 2020
Emma Jolley
Sheridan's is new body of work by Emma Jolley, based upon the company Sheridan's Badges & Engraving – one of the longest family run businesses in Western Australia. Repurposing old plates and dies from the factory, Sheridan’s considers the importance of local production, skill sharing and community connection fostered by longstanding local businesses.
REOPENING WED 10 JUN AND EXTENDED TO SAT 20 JUN 2020
Saleheh Gholami , Chloe Henderson, Veta Holmes and Ailsa Waddell
Ruminating on the documentation of bodies in artmaking; Show Your Working presents a selection of work from the 2019 graduating classes of Perth’s tertiary art schools. Responding to their surrounding environments; natural, built, social, political or imagined, the artists present industrious creative research practices that reveal the structures that shape their making.
2019
Midland Junction Arts Centre provides a suite of creative workshops throughout the year covering ceramics, printmaking, textiles, painting and much more. Participation continues to grow as creative skills are shared by professional artists with community members. A curated selection of artworks by workshop participants are presented for Made Here By Hand.
SUSAN ECKER
Seeking iconographic descriptions of the Western Australian landscape, Susan Ecker concentrates on enduring elements - the land, rock formations and the river. Blurring the distinction between drawing and painting, Ecker’s luminous mixed media canvases capture changing light and the passing of time to evoke abstract memories of place.
PART OF THE WHAT ON EARTH PROJECT
CLAIRE GILLAM
Botanic Philharmonia exhibits Claire Gillam’s Plant Band (2017) and Maestro (2019) together for the first time. This fantastical musical collaboration of native flora, specifically designed robotic instruments and processing synthesizers explores the universe of plant based creative performance and generative music making.
PART OF THE WHAT ON EARTH PROJECT
Curated by Jenny Kerr
Celebrating the act of sharing food, Tableware presents a selection of handcrafted ceramics and textiles made for the dinner table complimented by a feast of native flora. Styled as a pop up shop; a banquet of platters, plates, bowls, beakers and napery showcase the work of makers from around the country.
PART OF THE WHAT ON EARTH PROJECT
Curated by Sarah Toohey and Melissa McGrath
Celebrating the fertile landscape of the Swan Valley, Lush Valley invites visitors to discover the floral bounty of the eastern region through a selection of works from the City of Swan’s Art Collection. These works, by renowned artists including Gladys Kemarre, Jude Taylor, Rosemary Collard & Chen Hongguang will be exhibited alongside the work of primary school children from the City of Swan who have participated in the 2019 Swan Environmental Art Project.
PART OF THE WHAT ON EARTH PROJECT
There are more than 12,000 different types of wildflowers listed in the flora catalogue for Western Australia, over 60% of which are found nowhere else in the world. Wildflower State presents a selection of over 30 invited Western Australian artists who have created works on paper in praise of the state’s unique flora.
Presented by CITY OF SWAN
The region’s youth showcase their talent, presenting a diverse range of two and three-dimensional works via film, traditional and experimental media for this annual show.
ARTIST IN FOCUS
DEBORAH RALPH-KAFARELA
Deborah Ralph-Kafarela is working with the local Midland community during her time as Artist in Focus to develop a series of artworks and installations that challenge cultural values of rough sleeping and homelessness. Multa Plenty aims to address issues of equality and displacement, by recognizing abundance and emphasising that there is more than enough to go around.
ARTIST IN FOCUS
ANNE WILLIAMS
Hand stitching can bring a gentle respite in a world where the increasing acceleration of daily life often threatens to overwhelm. Williams is conducting an investigation into how we experience the quality of time through hand stitching - working with daily, weekly and yearly rhythms.
Presented by DADAA
For the past decade, the annual In Focus exhibition at MJAC has featured artists from DADAA workshops connected to its Midland hub. This is an inclusive exhibition where the artists select one of their best works to present.
Curated by Greg Sikich
Ian Williams and Ellen Norrish explore virtual landscapes and the complexities of being present in a technological environment for The Life Around. The exhibition showcases the distinct paintings styles of the two emerging artists as they establish a reflective space in-between two realities.
Curated by Wadandi/Minang/Koreng Bibbulmun artist Lea Taylor and Greg Sikich
Danjoo - Interwoven celebrates local Aboriginal culture, Country, language and visual arts practice in Western Australia, proudly presenting new and recent artworks by eighteen Aboriginal artists from or now residing in the south west corner of the state. Danjoo – meaning together in Bibbulmun Noongar language reflects the bringing together of established, mid-career and emerging Aboriginal artists working in diverse art forms, presenting artworks that speak of local Aboriginal culture and contemporary, personal, social and political issues.
In conjunction with Danjoo - Interwoven, artworks made by Moorditj Noongar Community College children and participants of recent weaving workshops with Bibbulmun artist Lea Taylor will be showcased. Visitors are invited to enjoy a soundscape of Bibbulmun words while taking part in the interactive weaving space.