WHAT ON EARTH
The history of artists reinterpreting and rendering images of flora is long and deep. Mundaring Arts Centre Inc.’s fourth ‘Icon Project’, What On Earth featured a series of exhibitions, workshops, demonstrations and events exploring Australian flora at Mundaring Arts Centre, Midland Junction Arts Centre and other locations across Perth as part of this cross-community project.
What On Earth events and exhibitions celebrating the botanical world were presented at Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Midland Junction Arts Centre, Mundaring Arts Centre, Flux Gallery, Boya Community Centre, Mundaring District Museum and Kings Park Festival.
MJAC Exhibitions
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.
mjac ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
Sophie G Nixon is a early career artist, emerging curator and recent Honours (Fine Art) graduate living and working on Boorloo Boodja (Perth, Western Australia). Sophie works primarily with textiles and occasionally plants to create gentle sculptures and installations. Currently, she is interested in worn and damaged textiles, searching for unconventional modes of mending and repair.
MAC EXHIBITIONS, EVENTS & WORKSHOPS
Celebrate the botanical world with more What On Earth exhibitions, workshops and events at Mundaring Arts Centre.
Other exhibitions, workshops & EVENTS
Past exhibitions, workshop & events
PRESENTED BY MUNDARING DISTRICT MUSEUM
Bush Bounty explores the many ways people, past and present, encountered West Australian flora. From food and medicine, to decoration on clothing and domestic items, this exhibition celebrates how the State’s extraordinary botanical diversity has been utilised in the everyday and commonplace.
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PRESENTED BY KINGS PARK
Kings Park has a great range of events and activities open to the general public throughout the year.
The award winning Kings Park Festival celebrates Spring during the month of September and amateur photographers are invited to upload their work as part of the Flowers in Focus competition.
Upload your best photograph of a magical Western Australian wildflower to kingsparkfestival.com.au for your chance to share in some fantastic prizes from Art Gallery WA and Kings Park Botanic Garden.
Entries open 10 June 2019 and the winning works will be on display during the 2019 Kings Park Festival.
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PRESENTED BY FLUX GALLERY PERTH, KING ST ARTS CENTRE
Lorraine Biggs, Claire Bushby, Penny Coss, Kate Campbell Pope, Kati Thamo
Curated by Sandra Murray, these five female artists are connected by personal investigations of nature in their art practices, ranging from the minutiae of the landscape to the natural environment and the sky above. An underlying sensibility and sensitivity weaves through this intricate array of artworks: Lorraine Biggs (painting, works on paper), Claire Bushby (textiles, works on paper), Penny Coss (painting, wall drawing), Kate Campbell-Pope (textiles, sculpture), Kati Thamo (textiles, original prints). This is the first time that the artists have all exhibited together.
PRESENTED BY LAWRENCE WILSON ART GALLERY AND THE ART GALLERY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA
The celebration of Western Australia’s wildflowers puts a spotlight on the State’s botanical riches and the threat humans now pose to them. Hear from botanists, curators and artists bringing you an array of botanical and environment themed exhibitions and events in 2019.
PRESENTED BY THE ART GALLERY OF WA
Drawing from the renowned Janet Holmes à Court Collection and the AGWA Collection, this major exhibition explores the abundant beauty of the botanical world and the threats that assail it.
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Presented by Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery
Philippa Nikulinsky AM is a Perth-based, internationally recognised botanical and wildlife artist. Nikulinsky Naturally is a survey of her work from the 1970s to the present which provides a perspective on the unique qualities of her practice - focusing on the evolution of her working methodology and exploring the ways in which she continues to interrogate the botanical riches of the Western Australian landscape.
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