IT’S being hailed as the “great print revival”, an exhibition of limited edition prints by the who’s who of Australian artists. These days the cream of the nation’s artists are happy to be part of the Berkeley Editions, including the likes of  internationally renowned Archibald winner Gary Shead, Margaret Olley and Jasper Knight. But it…

GUNS and knives collected by WA police have been transformed into “positive” works of art by Perth artists. Each week WA police destroy more than 100 weapons and artist Stuart Elliott thought they could be put to better use. Following negotiations with WA Police, 30 Perth artists got their hands on weapons confiscated by coppers…

SCRIPTWRITER Ross Lonnie wanted to write a play about the Second World War and was struggling when, out of the blue, he was sent a transcript of his father’s war diary. Once he started reading, Uncle Jack fell into place. “[The diary] is beautifully written—so understated, no hint of self-pity,” Lonnie says. “It’s an account…

WITH around half of Perth’s population being first- or second-generation migrants, memory and place are important, says Robyn Creagh. It’s a subject that has long fascinated the Curtin University architecture lecturer, and was the basis of her 2011 PhD. Her exhibition Unfixed Connections, at the Perth Centre for Photography, translates academic theory into something more…

DEATH and beauty are often twinned in art through the ages so it’s appropriate a dead bird features in the promo photo for Silver Swans at the Fremantle Arts Centre. The WA Museum’s taxidermy department had been in the process of stuffing a white swan when the call came through: “It had been run over…

JON DENARO tinkered with making “weird” objects from a young age, especially when his air force dad was away and he had access to his shed. But he wasn’t always headed for a career as a sculptor: he’d studied to be a town planner before joining the air force and studying engineering. “I think I…

“NONE of us can sing, so we pretty much yell,” says Horror My Friend front man Josh Battersby. The indie-rock trio is a teenage cliche—a bunch of guys still in school playing loud music in their parents’ garage—and going on to find fame. Horror My Friend may not be a household name yet, but its…

WHO said Perth’s art scene was full of namby-pamby hipster fops? The back-room staff at Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts have muscled-up and romped home in this year’s Rottnest Channel Swim. “We did the Rotto swim to advocate the importance of art in a healthy community” The “PICAnauts”, including curator Leigh Robb and communication manager…

EINSTEIN’S theory of relativity and South African apartheid come together in a joint PICA and WA art gallery exhibition, The Refusal of Time. Johannesburg artist William Kentridge’s father was an ardent opponent of the country’s officially racist divide and was one of a few white South Africans who offered legal representation to those suffering under…