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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
