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Drifting In My Own Land
Nalda Searles is a living icon of Western Australian art. For decades she has been an innovator in the use of native fibres and found objects from the environment for the production of fibre-textiles, sculpture and installation artworks. Her practice draws from the unique landscape of the West of Australia to express the contradictions of…
Romanticism and Reason – Australian Jewellery 1955-1997
This exhibition traced the evolution of Australian contemporary jewellery practice through the work of 17 eminent makers selected from the Art Gallery of Western Australia Collection. Romanticism was explored in the work of makers who identified with the ideal of the independent artisan, connected to the process of making through skill and intimate knowledge of…