WA State Art Gallery - Collection from 1800 to Today

EXHIBITIONS FROM THE STATE ART COLLECTION

YOUR COLLECTION 1800 - TODAY

Our most important asset is the State Art Collection. Your Collection is the leading public art collection in the State, with many areas of acknowledged excellence, including Western Australian art, Modern British art and Indigenous art. The many highlights of the inspiring art in the Your Collection displays are presented across all ground floor galleries in both the Centenary Galleries and the main Gallery building. The displays are chronologically arranged from the 1800s to today.

Your Collection 1800 – 1920; Here and There highlights a time of great artistic and social change, and the works on display represent the era's major artistic movements, including Neo-Classicism, Romanticism, Realism, Impressionism and Symbolism. Located in the Centenary Galleries and includes works by Hans Heysen, Frederick McCubbin and Auguste Rodin.

Your Collection 1920 – 1960; Many Modernisms presents a rich array of Australian and international works from the modern period after World War I. Many of the works by artists such as Paul Nash, Henry Moore,Giorgio Morandi, Stanley Spencer, Albert Tucker, Winifred Nicholson, Margaret Preston and Grace Cossington Smith are icons in the State Art Collection.

Guy Grey-Smith

Torbay 1957

Your Collection 1960 – 1980; Anything Goes, similarly brings together a wide range of Western Australian, national and international art mirroring a period renown for eclecticism. The legacy of Modernism is still apparent but is energised by the emergence of Pop art, Conceptual art and more. This display features Indigenous art, which rose to national prominence during this period as fine examples of material culture produced across Australia began to be appreciated for their artistic innovation. Some of the artists featured include Jenny Watson, Barbara Hepworth, Kaapa Tjampitjinpa and Alec Mingelmanganu.

Your Collection 1980 – today; Expanding Fields Presents an array of abstract and figurative painting, sculpture, video and design, art shaped by the impact of instantaneous global communication, post-modernism, changing political orders, and environmental politics. Each work emerges from this dynamic and diverse background as artists engage with local and global issues, ideas and aesthetics. Some of the major artists displayed include Rover Thomas, Ken Unsworth, Sally Gabori and Max Pam.