Artist News // March 2026
// BRAD RIMMER AT WALYALUP FREMANTLE ARTS CENTRE
Loom of the Land is a special exhibition, presented by Perth Festival and Walyalup Fremantle Arts Centre that brings together three interconnected bodies of work from Brad Rimmer’s photographic Wheatbelt trilogy in a major survey exhibition.
Captivating in a cinematic sense: ‘Working within the fine line of art and documentary photography Brad continues to use his artistic practice to probe at the essence of rural Australia and the emotional impact of the natural landscape upon individual psyches.’
A not-to-be-missed show. Until 26 April 2026. Contact us art@artcollectivewa.com.au for a list of available works.
// OLGA CIRONIS AT BUNBURY REGIONAL ART GALLERY
A major installation by Olga Cironis in the Chapel at Bunbury Regional Art Gallery heralds the inaugural South West Biennial. Olga presents ‘an installation that draws on her ongoing engagement with the blanket as a material and metaphor, extending her decades long exploration of wrapping, concealing, and protecting objects and bodies’.
The survey exhibition showcases works by 28 artists from Australia’s south western regions, in addition to installations by internationally acclaimed artists: Jacobus Capone, Olga Cironis, Amber Cronin and Tom Borgas, Sharyn Egan, and Andy Quilty.
Tracework is curated by Dr Michael Bianco and Dionne Hooyberg. Until 19 July 2026.
// COLLECTIVE ARTISTS REVIEWED: Theo Koning, Paul Uhlmann
Something Old, Something New by Duncan McKay
‘Paul Uhlmann’s work in the exhibition … emerged from the artist’s extensive engagement with the story of the VOC ship Batavia’s wreck and mutiny in 1629 and the journal of Franciso Pelsaert … In particular, Uhlmann focused upon the formal properties of the calligraphic hand in which Pelsaert’s journal was written, and the jarring incongruity of its beautiful penmanship with the horrors of the story that it tells.’ Read more at Dispatch Review.
First Encounters: Artist Interventions with the VOC Shipwrecks was exhibited at the WA Shipwrecks Museum, 28 November 2025 – 1 February 2026.
Theo Koning by Marco Marcon
Marco reviews the retrospective of Theo Koning’s career and his relationship to Fremantle – noting Theo’s “important contribution to Western Australian art history”, and his “sustained and disciplined engagement with abstraction”. The review frames a disciplined, intellectually serious body of work that consolidates a lifetime of practice — more about depth and continuity than spectacle or reinvention.
Read more at Dispatch Review. Purchase the monograph.
Objet d’Art – Theo Koning and his Creative Self was curated by Andre Lipscombe and exhibited at Walyalup Fremantle Arts Centre, 15 November 2025 – 26 January 2026.