Something is happening here covers some twenty years of Bill Hammond’s practice as presented from the Wallace Arts Trust collection. A beginning point are interiors painted in the early 1980s.

The new Eden Arts residency at Karekare House has been home to four artists since its launch at the beginning of 2018 - John Horner, Neal Palmer, Nicholas Pound, and Krystie Wade.

Michael Prosee’s drawing practice reconsiders drawing within contemporary art practice. No longer limited to a notebook, or pencil on paper, drawing has been re-defined more broadly as a mark-making process on a surface.

This curated screening of short animated films from various Eastern regions of the world - Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and the Far East - seeks to celebrate the richness, imagination, humanity, humour, and skilled craftspersonship of animation that is not typically found on the Western blockbuster circuit.

LightWing Uwe Rieger / Yinan Liu 12 February - 31 March 2019 AV Gallery, The Pah Homestead The Opening Night…

The Pet Photo Booth was conceived in Perth, Western Australia as a tribute to Yvonne Doherty’s hideously ugly and demented poodle Joe Louie. Yvonne desperately wanted a portrait with a likeness to Joe Louie in his younger and cuter days, unfortunately this was no longer possible. Yvonne made it her mission to photograph other people’s pets before they too declined in to shadows of their former selves.

FIRST I LAY WITH ADAM by Sam Duckor-Jones is a personal response to Pride and queerness.  His installation features large ceramic vases in neon pink, alongside tiny close-up drawings of hair and skin, crammed into former domestic spaces of the historic Pah Homestead.

The Trust stages exhibitions of recent acquisitions on a regular basis throughout the year. These demonstrate the support we give the visual arts through our ongoing, active and widespread acquisition programme.

Old Energies draws on the creative input of two contemporary artists, Josephine Cachemaille and Alan Ibell, who have produced new work inspired by the Wallace Arts Trust Collection and the Pah Homestead. Both artists playfully cast themselves in the roles of analyst or medium, tasked with exposing and channelling the relationships between the collection works, the historic building and their own art works.