Attracting a broad range of contemporary WA artists, the Mid West Art Prize has encouraged, celebrated and acquired significant artworks for the Geraldton Art Collection since its founding exhibition in 2011. This survey brings these prized acquisitions together for the first time in anticipation of the 2023 Mid West Art Prize.

Faces and Places Revisited presents a comprehensive picture of the art practice of Irwin Tasman Lewis (1939-2020), drawing on imagery of flora, fauna, families and a series of poignant ‘Face’ paintings expressing the life and country of this significant Yamaji artist.

Featuring over 50 artworks from his short but prolific artistic career, He is Myself is a retrospective of the nationally-acclaimed body of work Mr. Gardiner created from South Hedland’s Spinifex Hill Studio

Individuals is the fourth local exhibition held by the DADAA Print Group, having also taken part in community arts projects and exhibited collaborative works interstate. The group create their art work in the Coach Studio at the Geraldton Cultural Trust, with perfectly-suited facilities including a spacious studio and two large printmaking presses.

Stitched and Bound is a biennial exhibition showcasing the innovative range of current work being produced by Western Australian artists who challenge the usual concept of the ‘quilt’ medium. Presented by the West Australian Quilters Association (WAQA)

Peregrinations of a Citizen Botanist is an immersive and finely crafted installation by Susie Vickery which takes the form of a cabinet of curiosities, charting the journey of the 18th Century French botanist Jacques-Julien Houtou de Labillardière, who came to Western Australia in 1792 on the ship Recherche, captained by Bruni d’Entrecasteaux. Image Credit: Susie Vickery, Peregrinations of a Citizen Botanist installed at Mundaring Arts Centre, 2019. Photo courtesy the Artist and Jess Boyce

As with our human neighbours, we inevitably develop relationships with the birds that share our home.

The Visitors is an artistic survey of the people, paths and stories woven through the sociological landscape of contemporary Central Australian culture. The art-making process engaged diverse sectors of the community in unique inimitable immersive art experiences. Each image is a distillation of poignant local imagery, harnessed to provide an artistic account of the impacts and influences on desert life, captured with all the gloss of a tourism advert.

Tattoos are a conversation starter. Many members and veterans of the Australian Defence Forces have tattoos, and while their reasons for getting tattooed are as varied as the people themselves, self-expression and belonging play a part.

Community Exhibition with various Artists and border design by Nicole Dickerson I Exhibiting 29 September - 15 January 2023

Exhibiting November 2022 at the Geraldton Library. Flora & Fauna is inspired by the native West Australian flora, fauna and endangered species.

Geraldton's Secondary School Art students exhibition with year level prizes and the People's Choice Award.

OPENING NIGHT 1 OCTOBER 2022 Exhibitions THE TOWN HALL 1907 - 1984 and The Banksia Ball 50th Anniversary. EXHIBITING 1 OCTOBER 2022 - 15 JANUARY 2023 Part of the Big Sky Readers and Writers Festival 2022 collection

OPENING NIGHT 8 JULY 2022 - The Alternative Archive Touring Exhibition presents a contemporary visual archive of Regional Western Australian arts practice, the first of its kind in twenty years.

Exhibiting May - July 2022 in the Post Office Lane LightBox Gallery. Nicole Dickerson's connection to Yama(t)ji Country, based on the River, Ocean & Sky.

The latest exhibition of work by Susan Ecker. explores the studios of artists in some thirty paintings, sculptures, prints and drawings.

ArtCollectiveWA. Western Australians have a complex relationship with the state’s environment – vast landscapes, harsh contrasts, stunning colour and unique flora. These four artists - Merrick Belyea, Sarah Elson, Brad Rimmer, Susan Roux - interact with and respond to their environs in their own distinctive ways, trying to make sense of our expansive and layered vistas.

OPENING NIGHT 8 JULY 2022 - Southern Forrest Arts is currently working on a collaborative presentation of a state-wide series of regionally based, interconnected, exhibitions and performances held in mid to late 2022, culminating in a survey of contemporary regional art practice at John Curtin Gallery (Perth) in September-November 2023. Open Borders’ is an exploration of the burden and blessing of demarcation. Inspired by Western Australia’s unique experience of containment during the Covid-19 pandemic, ‘Open Borders’ prompts state-wide reflection (across all nine of WA’s regions and metro Perth) upon the role of borders, and their impact upon our lives.

Our next three exhibitions will be opening Friday the 18 March 2022. They will be exhibiting from 19 March - 1 May 2022 FREE TICKETS - bit.ly/3v6O5Xf

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The Mid West Art Prize opened at the Geraldton Regional Art Gallery on 27 November 2021.

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Genesis 2021- Geraldton’s Secondary School Art students exhibition hosted by Geraldton Regional Art Gallery at the Museum of Geraldton.

The Past Stops Now - a retrospective by Peteris (Peter) Ciemitis opens at the Geraldton Regional Art Gallery, Friday 1 October, 6pm.

BLUE: An IOTA21 Exhibition opens Friday 1 October, 6pm at the Geraldton Regional Art Gallery.

14 August - 19 September 2021

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