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A promotional image for Black Swan’s 2025 production, ‘August: Osage County’. Five actors pose for the camera against a bacldrop formed by a bright red field and a blue sky. A tree-encircled family home is visible in the distance.
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Black Swan’s 2025 season designed to challenge and nourish audiences

Seven productions are featured in Black Swan State Theatre Company’s 2025 season, including new Australian works and a modern American…

A white walled gallery space showing a series of large minimalist abstract paintings that have white, grey and cream colours.
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The case for 'quiet paintings' in turbulent times

The allure of abstract art is a mysterious thing. But an artist with 50+ years’ experience in the genre sheds…

A picture of around 10 different Aboriginal art paintings hanging on a gallery wall showing four gallery attendees of different ages and genders looking at them.
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'Revealed' revelation – Aboriginal art fair enters important new partnership

After 10 successful years at Fremantle Arts Centre, WA’s most prominent exhibition and art market for emerging WA Aboriginal artists…

Three white porcelain vessels by WA artist Sandra Black, pictured against a grey background.
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Major survey show to spotlight 50-year career of acclaimed Australian ceramicist

The first major solo show of internationally acclaimed WA ceramicist Sandra Black will open soon at the Art Gallery of…

A kitchen scene. Two women are on the left at a table, one seated, another perched on the table. A man is on the right, riding a tiny child's tricycle. The Children.
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Theatre review: The Children, Heath Ledger Theatre, WA

Environmental disaster and the rocky affairs of the heart are braided in this production.

pvi Director Kelli McCluskey outside the BHP offices in Perth, standing in front of a giant poster that looks like an invoice from pvi to BHP.
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pvi collective delivers carbon invoices to fossil fuel companies

A collective at the apex of interventionist art used the language of economics to open dialogue with fossil fuel companies……

new theatre audiences: a scene of actors amongst pizza boxes and stuffed animals.
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Tapping in to gaming subcultures to build new theatre audiences

What happens when a game-obsessed playwright meets two puppet artists who want to make a new theatre work? The answer…

Two performers, one is a female opera singer with bright orange hair, and the other is a female acrobat hanging from silks, on a darkened stage. cross art form.
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Lessons in cross art form collaboration for audience growth

Three directors share their secrets on how to minimise the risks and maximise the gains in cross art form collaborations.

Two men are holding up paper puppets that are dressed in the same clothing as they are. Hare Brain.
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Theatre review: Hare Brain, Claremont Show Grounds, Perth

Inanimate objects came to life in this rendition of the hare and the tortoise tale.

Two young men wearing blue short-sleeve tops. One is in the centre of the frame with his arms wide apart and his mouth open. The other is standing on the right side looking down at his phone.
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Theatre Review: Brothers Wreck, Subiaco Arts Centre

The ties that bind after a tragic loss are examined in exquisite detail in this WA production of Jada Alberts’…

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