A NEW plan to light up shadowy city laneways has kicked off with the installation of Adam Cruikshank’s “Falling Stars” artwork off Hay Street mall. It’s the first in a new series of public artworks to light  up the laneways, the latest in the long-running attempts at laneway activation that’s been newly revived amid Perth…

AN important piece of WA’s sculptural history is coming up for auction in Sydney later this month, and one of the state’s most respected art academics says he’d love to see it come home. The Wildflower State was created by renowned Australian sculptor Lyndon Dadswell and hung on the facade of the Commonwealth Bank on…

AFTER years of research a Hyde Park history enthusiast has come to an unexpected conclusion: The park has never had an official opening. Retired journalist Rodney O’Brien threw himself into researching Hyde Park to find out more about a long-forgotten fountain that was vandalised in 1918 and removed two years later, along the way discovering…

THERE’S an air of French provincial to this lovely Inglewood apartment. Light floorboards, elegant chairs, wine barrel and ‘distressed’ furniture all conjure up visions of a townhouse in Provence. Or if you want a more Aussie take on this two bedroom one bathroom apartment – Acton Mt Lawley call it a “Little Ripper”! They’re not…

LIGHTNING SWAMP will become a learning hub to help kids reconnect with nature. Friends of Lightning Swamp chair John Williams made a deputation to Bayswater council asking for a spot at adjacent Lightning Park to set up a transportable building as a learning space across the road from the swamp, as Perth’s shrinking remnant bushland…

BAYSWATER council has been wrongly framed as WA’s most secretive council when it comes to tendering and awarding contracts. The Civil Contractors Federation WA released a report on Monday which gave Bayswater a poor review over its transparency, earning the council a full page story in The West Australian headlined: “Bayswater earns ‘most secretive’ gong…

A HEARTFELT thanks to all our Perth Voice readers who have responded to our campaign to Feed the Chook. It has been so encouraging. One of them was Andrew of Voiceland, a keen walker, who has reliably delivered The Voice right through the pandemic. He donated the whole of one week’s pay to help feed…

THE new skate and BMX park in Bayswater is on track for an opening in mid-spring, with construction going pretty smoothly so far. The original Wotton Reserve skate park had to be demolished to make way for the state government’s Metronet upgrades and the state’s paying $2.5 million to build a new one in the…

WHADJUK Noongar artists are in demand as Bayswater seeks to diversify its art holdings with more local Aboriginal art. Bayswater council opens entries for its annual Community Arts Awards in September and to encourage more works telling Whadjuk stories there’ll be a new $5,000 acquisitive award for a work by a local Aboriginal artist. It’ll…

THE grungy state of Hyde Park’s playground has prompted a call for more cleaning to shear off the “thick deposits of oily scum”. Voice reader Damon James wrote in saying “my kids play at Hyde Park playground every weekend. Over the last 24 months, I have watched the disgusting brown grime on the park’s play…