A NEW exhibition at Tafe’s Gallery East by 65 artist challenges the notion of what is a book at the fifth biennial Between the Sheets. Printmakers, photographers, wordsmiths, textile artists, painters, sculptors, digital artists have all had a crack at creating – or un-creating a book. While many artists have dealt with content, others draw…

AN innovative one-woman show blends storytelling, poetry and science in a moving ode to migrant mothers in Perth. MoR is performed by Dureshawar Khan, who was an impressionable 15-year-old when her family emigrated from Pakistan to Perth in 2003. She’s now lived in Australia longer than her country of birth, and has not seen her relatives…

LUCKY OCEANS will be joined by a who’s who of the Fremantle music scene at his 70th birthday bash later this month. In an amazing career spanning Nashville to North Fremantle, the talented guitarist has played with the likes of Eric Clapton, Willie Nelson and Jerry Lee Lewis. Originally from Philadelphia, Oceans enjoyed his first…

AN engrossing film about the 1936 Spanish coup is just one of the highlights of this year’s Spanish Film Festival. Directed by Alejandro Amenábar (The Others, The Sea Inside), While at War is a personal take on the coup through the eyes of celebrated Spanish writer Miguel de Unamuno. He initially supports the military rebellion…

A giant neon sign, a  mini Elvis and some interstellar dust are just some of the great artworks on show at Revealed. Featuring more than 300 works by 100 new and emerging Aboriginal artists across WA, the exhibition is a salient reminder that not all Aboriginal art is dot painting and there is a burgeoning…

YES, that is blood,” artist James Wilson says. “Despite looking for alternatives. Nothing looks like or behaves like blood.  “The larger work Angel is created with it entirely.” The Voice was slightly nervous about asking what kind of blood was used in Wilson’s exhibition Otto and Annie, but there’s no denying the end result is…

MELISSA CLEMENTS is one of the homegrown success stories featured in next weekend’s Fine Art exhibition at Perth College. A former Perth College art captain in 2016, Clements won the Visual Arts ATAR that year, opened the Fine Art exhibition in 2017, and went on to study in New York and Florence before returning to…

LOVE springs eternal at this year’s Alliance Française French Film Festival with a bouquet of passionate films to enjoy. Artistic director Karine Mauris has acknowledged the collective stress the world has been under, serving up an escapist feast for the eyes. “2021 is the year of renaissance and like all things French, love is also…

  THERE’S still time to catch the confronting WA Art Gallery exhibition BODIED before it closes on Monday.  Toying with our perception of the human body and what it represents, six artists from across the globe deliver an eye-opening mix of video, animation and digital prints. Artist Wong Ping’s Stop Peeping is a video animation…

COVID-19 hasn’t stopped local filmmakers submitting a record number of entries to the 2021 WA Made Film Festival. Now in its second year, the Perth-based festival will be screening 53 West Australian films, including 27 world premieres, and 11 shorts made exclusively for the event. Festival director Matt Eeles says WA filmmakers are a resolute…