Arts

By Sally McGlew WHILE the search for WA’s best songwriters draws one step closer, a local Mundaring band is hoping to take out the title. The Michael Day band’s song Storm is one of an impressive pool of nominees at ...

By Claire Ottaviano MICHELLE Campbell is making her solo exhibition debut with Urban, a commentary on the impacts of urban sprawl and subdivisions on communities. On display at Mundaring Arts Centre from June 5 to August 1, Campbell’s contemporary paintings ...

By Claire Ottaviano THE Shire of Mundaring will pull the plug on its annual funding of the long-standing Robert Juniper Award for the Arts after Council supported scrapping a funding agreement with the award’s Trustees. At Tuesday night’s Council meeting, ...

By Melissa Sheil MT HELENA artist Helen Lock is proving to the world it’s never too late to get started on your dreams. At 70-years-old, Ms Lock will be opening her first exhibition at the Zig Zag Gallery comprising of ...

By Sally McGlew WITH an initial print run of 200 books, and having already sold 115 books, Talitha Huston, 17, is very pleased with her latest project focussing on native bird life. The final year Helena College student decided to ...

By Melissa Sheil THE Kalamunda nests are leaving in much the same fashion they arrived in: silently, mysteriously and one by one. Over the past weeks, nest’s six, eight and two have been taken down from their public display places, ...

By Melissa Sheil ARTIST Joanne Colely is saddling up for her unicorn painting fundraising event in honour of the late Milli Lucas in Wattle Grove next weekend. Milli first entered Australia’s hearts in 2016 through her battle with a vicious ...

By Claire Ottaviano NESTLED amongst private gardens on one of the Perth Hills oldest properties you will find Louise Thorpe’s studio, open for visitors during the Mundaring Hills Open Studios event next weekend. While the gardens around the 1881 original ...

By Sally McGlew A MIDLAND public art project is almost finished after a community painting day at Weeip Park, with Perth artist Haylee Fieldes, also known as Fieldey, engaging local residents and teenagers to help design and paint a mural ...

By Melissa Sheil ANDREA Vinkovic may be credited with making the Labyrinth sculpture at this year’s Sculpture by the Sea, but the artist says the work was very much a joint collaboration between fellow ceramicists and sculptors. Twenty-seven helpers from ...