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The Art Gallery of Western Australia (AGWA) is a public art gallery that is part of the Perth Cultural Centre, in Perth. It is located near the Western Australian Museum and State Library of Western Australia and is supported and managed by the Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries of the Government of Western Australia ...
Christopher Hodges: artist and art gallery director; Frank Hodgkinson (1919–2001): war artist; Rayner Hoff (1894–1937): Isle of Man-born sculptor who lived and worked in Australia; Robert Hollingworth (born 1947): painter, video artist, writer, novelist; winner of 1990 Sulman Prize; Cherry Hood (born 1959): portraitist, won the 2002 ...
The following list includes public artworks in Kings Park which is located on the outskirts of the Perth CBD. Kings Park was established as a public park in 1872 and contains a varied collection of public artworks ranging from early 20th century war monuments to life-sized dinosaur models. It is said to contain "more memorials, statues and ...
The Foundation of Perth 1829 by Morison. George Pitt Morison (31 August 1861 – 4 September 1946) was an Australian painter and engraver. He is noted in particular for his painting The Foundation of Perth 1829 which was commissioned as part of Western Australia's centenary celebrations, and presented to the Art Gallery of Western Australia in February 1929.
Eastre, Hymn to the Sun by J D Fergusson, 1924, Perth Museum. Fergusson was born in Leith, Edinburgh, [1] the first of four children. [1] Although he briefly trained as a naval surgeon, Fergusson soon realised that his vocation was painting and he enrolled at the Trustees Academy, an Edinburgh-based art school.
Its exhibitions were mainly those of emerging artists, and when interviewed in 1965 Waterhouse proposed that it was the first artist-run gallery in Melbourne. [2] Robert Grieve, writing about the gallery in The Bulletin in 1967 considered that its 'high standing among painters' was due to the directors themselves being artists.
A Perth firm, Smart, Stewart & Mitchell, won and the extension was begun with the laying of the foundation stone by lord provost Thomas Dempster on 2 December 1932. [6] Work continued between 1933 and 1935, [ 7 ] and it was opened on 10 August 1935 by the Duke and Duchess of York, [ 6 ] the future King George VI and Queen Elizabeth .
The Busselton Art Society held an extensive retrospective exhibition for Johnson in 1969, two years after her death on 26 September 1967, with 73 of her artworks. This was followed 30 years later in 1999, when 28 of her works were shown in a retrospective at the Art Society Gallery, Queen Street, Busselton.