Perth Voice Interactive

A EUREKA Stockade-style flag made from old high-vis shirts, street signs overprinted and finely etched impressionist views of Perth from the air.

They’re all part of Built, at Linton and Kay Gallery in Perth, an artistic response to WA’s social, cultural, economic, political, ethnic and geographical environment post the recent mining boom.

It’s by emerging artist Matthew McVeigh, who’d earlier created the similarly themed Mine.

“I worked in the Pilbara…there’s a bigger picture going on looking at globalisation,” he tells the Voice.

“It follows the idea of [Aboriginal] song lines, it’s my own song lines.”

The local artist collaborated with building industry bods to come up with works that highlight a real-world dynamic, some of it sourced from site material.

Standing alone, each explores the built environment, but as a whole it’s a construction of a city and what goes into making it and its society.

This is McVeigh’s second solo exhibition, with another in China in the pipeline. He recently worked on costume design for the WA Ballet’s To the Pointe.

Built is on at Linton and Kay, St Georges Terrace, Perth until Monday, February 29.

by JENNY D’ANGER