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“But, the future is...uncertain. Today my beauti

“But, the future is...uncertain. Today my beautiful son turned one. As much as I look forward to watching him grow, I worry about what kind of world he is growing into when the environment, human rights and Indigenous cultures are neglected in favour of economic growth."

James Tylor @jamesptylor

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This year has been emotional. But, the future is... ?

We asked our future program artists and creatives to finish this sentence and will be sharing their responses over the coming weeks as we announce each show in 2021.

James Tylor will present newly commissioned work in 'Oh, Museum', which will run from 22 May - 11 July.

We're thrilled to announce the third exhibition in

We're thrilled to announce the third exhibition in our 2021 program, Oh, Museum, which will run from 22 May - 11 July.

Featuring new commissions by James Tylor and Jamie North and selected work by Yuki Kihara, Oliver Laric, Morehshin Allahyari, DIS, Gianna Hayes and Pilvi Takala, Oh, Museum initiates an inclusive and timely conversation about art museums and institutional regeneration, speaking to the legacies of colonialism, gender disparity, the underrepresentation of People of Colour, and the complex impacts of digitisation.

The Guerrilla Girls will take over our Project Space with The Complaints Department.

+ more to be announced next year.

It’s Been Emotional’ is an online series that

It’s Been Emotional’ is an online series that asks inspiring creatives, change-makers and thought-leaders who are women of colour to reflect back on the past year, personally and socially.

The images reflect what they were feeling, thinking about, researching and doing at that time, and also offer an opportunity to consider what has been learnt, overcome and achieved — how life has changed and hopes for the future.

This week’s images come from Winnie Dunn @sweatshop.ws

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Image 1: Just women of colour things at www.sweatshop.ws
Image 2: Best believe
Image 3: So sad, so sxc
Image 4: Before my little tokouso moved to the closed borders of Perth...
Image 5: In Tongan culture the aloe is known to heal all wounds.

This week we announced the second exhibition in ou

This week we announced the second exhibition in our 2021 program ‘Textbook for Desire’ which will run from 20 March - 2 May. Here are some ways you can familiarise yourself with and support the participating artists before then…

New Age Collective
We loved ‘Produce With Me’, a three part live series on the collective’s Facebook page looking at the production process of some of our favourite noise makers.

Giselle Stanborough
We recommend listening to Giselle’s conversation with Curator Daniel Mudie Cunningham on the Carriageworks website. The pair talk surveillance and the seduction of TikTok.

Sweatshop Women
This talented collective have just announced a partnership with @utp___ to present ‘Sex, Drugs and Pork Rolls’ at Sydney Festival next year. The piece is a multi-screen four-part oral storytelling installation developed entirely by artists of colour. Tickets go on sale soon!

Kate Blackmore
Last month Kate was part of ‘Thinking Business’, an exhibition at Goulburn Regional Gallery that explored female friendships, collaboration and artistic labour. Take a look at the show via the gallery website.

This month we’ve started introducing you to our

This month we’ve started introducing you to our 2021 program and have so far announced ‘Attention Tourist’ and ‘Textbook for Desire’.

Now that we’re almost halfway through we thought we’d take this opportunity to show the many ways you can familiarise yourself with and support participating artists before then starting with our Attention Tourist artists.

Chirstopher Ulutupu
@tulisi88 will present selected works alongside a new Cement Fondu commissioned video work ‘New Kid In Town’. If you’re in New Zealand you can view his video work ‘Into The Arms of my Coloniser’ at the @d.p.a.g until 13 December.

Ayeesha Ash
@ayeeshaash, Artistic Director at Black Birds will present a new commission Cement Fondu x Daata Editions video installation ‘My Gyul’ in our Project Space. Before then, catch Ayeesha on @fbiradio where she’s a host at arts radio program @canvas_fbi94.5.

110% Collective
@110.percent will take over our Art Store with a Covid iteration of their ongoing series ‘Holiday Feelings’. Check out this earlier version at @pica_perth. We can’t wait to lounge in our very own one this January!

“But the future is impossible for me to speculat

“But the future is impossible for me to speculate on without sounding really bleak."

Kate Blackmore @_kewb_

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This year has been emotional. But, the future is... ?

We asked our future program artists and creatives to finish this sentence and will be sharing their responses over the coming weeks as we announce each show in 2021.

Kate Blackmore will present work newly commissioned work in 'Textbook For Desire', which will run from 20 March - 2 May 2021.