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Community Art Awards & Exhibition 2024

People viewing a piece of art

The Wanneroo Community Art Awards is a major feature of the City’s cultural calendar and has been held annually since 2001.

Opening hours

  • Wednesday to Saturday // 10am to 4pm
  • Closed Monday, Tuesday, Sunday and public holidays

The City of Wanneroo Community Art Awards and Exhibition has been a highly-regarded annual event on the City's cultural calendar since 2001. 

It is returning for yet another year with 143 artworks on show featuring a diversity of talent in the categories of Painting, Works on Paper, Sculpture and Photo, Film and Digital Media. 

Visitors will be able to vote for their favourite artwork in the ‘People’s Choice’ award and artists will be in the running to take home a share of the $18,700 prize pool.  

See Wanneroo Gallery for details.

Andy Warhol Collection - Campbell’s Soup Cans series

Andy Warhol cans image

The Wanneroo Regional Gallery is proud to present a collection of works from one of the 20th century's most influential artists, Andy Warhol.

Opening hours

  • Wednesday to Saturday // 10am to 4pm
  • Closed Monday, Tuesday, Sunday and public holidays


The Andy Warhol works are a long-term loan from the National Gallery of Australia with support from the Australian Government as part of Sharing the National Collection initiative. The partnership will see the Wanneroo Regional Gallery display over 50 artworks by Andy Warhol over a two-year period from March 2024, with a small selection of pieces on display and rotated every three months.  

A new, discrete selection of some of the most recognisable symbols of Pop Art, the Campbell’s Soup Cans, will be on display from 12 June along with a larger-than-life painting of Elvis. 

These works will be exhibited in a small section of the Gallery alongside the City’s main exhibition, the annual Community Art Awards and Exhibition, which showcases over 140 works from talented local artists in the City and beyond. 

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Andy Warhol  
Salvatore Silkscreen Company (printer)
Factory Additions (publisher) 
Untitled 1968 
screenprint, printed in coloured inks. sheet, each 91.8  x 61.3  cm, overall 183.6  x 306.5  cm 
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra The Poynton Bequest 2006 
© The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, 8 Inc./ARS. Licensed by Copyright Agency
2006.859.3

Keep the Fire Burning! Blak, Loud & Proud – Photography exhibition

Uncle Herbert Bropho kneeling at corner of St George’s Tce and William St during a protest marking three decades since the 1991 Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody report was tabled, 15th April 2021, Cole Baxter.

Connect with this year’s NAIDOC Week theme and visit the Wanneroo Library and Cultural Centre to see a collection of Noongar photographer Cole Baxter’s images on display.

Opening hours

Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday // 10am to 4pm

Come and view an exhibition celebrating NAIDOC titled “KEEP THE FIRE BURNING! BLAK LOUD AND PROUD by Noongar photographer Cole Baxter. Cole Baxter’s is a Noongar man from the Farmer family. He’s often seen documenting rallies and protests on Noongar country and interviewing Indigenous authors.

This photographic exhibition by Cole Baxter celebrates this year’s NAIDOC theme and speaks to the enduring strength and vitality of First Nations culture.

Image

Uncle Herbert Bropho kneeling at corner of St George’s Tce and William St during a protest marking three decades since the 1991 Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody report was tabled, 15th April 2021, Cole Baxter.

Dreamtime Cinema: Indigenous Art Across Time - Easel to Screen: Film Series

Aboriginal artist painting

Hetti Perkins, senior curator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, shares her knowledge of - and passion for - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art.

From the 'dreaming' to the unsettling nightmare of colonisation, what is the role of memory, dreams and the spirit world in Aboriginal art?

  • Art + Soul (2010) - 12pm
  • Dreams and Nightmares (2010) - 2pm

Note: These sessions are rated: M - for mature audience

Book now

Preparation

We recommend arriving 15 minutes early to allow for check-in and orientation.

Accessibility

Our facility is wheelchair accessible. Please inform us of any special needs upon booking.

WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are warned that the following program may contain images and voices of deceased persons.

Mariw Minaral: Alick Tipoti

Piece of sculpture artwork

Presented as part of the 2024 Indian Ocean Craft Triennial

Opening hours

  • Wednesday to Sunday // 10am to 4pm
  • Closed Monday, Tuesday, Sunday and public holidays

With more than 25 years of art practice, Tipoti is respected for his work in regenerating cultural knowledge and language.

Guided by the traditional cultural practices of his people, Mariw Minaral brings together some of the finest examples of Tipoti’s unique and intricate linocut printmaking practice. The exhibition will also showcase his award-winning sculptural works, contemporary masks and film.