turner galleries

After 20 years of working with amazing artists and producing stand out exhibitions, Turner Galleries will close on 20 February 2020.

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It is with mixed emotions that we announce the closure of Turner Galleries.

The final exhibitions will close on 23 November.

We thank everyone involved for the opportunity to create a place and space that has supported art and culture in Perth for the last 20 years.

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Parliament House Canberra, Department of Parliamentary Services: Withhold all Art and Music from display in Parliament House. - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/awELMAaNVE via @ChangeAUS

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Closure of Turner Galleries https://t.co/7sEuxuorUv

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Only two hours left to view our last ever exhibitions! Featuring new work by Anna Nazzari & Erin Coates, and Helen Britton & David Bielander. Staff will be at the gallery until 13 Dec. We still have lots of artworks in the stockroom if you are looking for a fabulous xmas gift

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Today is the last chance for you to view Helen Britton & David Bielander's superb exhibition The Rage of Dekoration and The Room of Lies. The gallery is open from 11am to 5pm today. Drop by and say goodbye: Turner Galleries is closing after 20 glorious years.

Photo @eiseldirk

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Last days for Turner Galleries! Don't miss our fabulous finale: Erin Coates & Anna Nazzari's Fauna Flesh Flora, and Helen Britton & David Bielander in The Rage of Dekoration. Closing 5pm Saturday 23 November.
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Erin Coates, Fauna flesh fauna, graphite on paper, 75 x 90cm, 2019

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Final days for our current exhibitions! Don't miss these superb shows by David Bielander & Helen Britton, and Anna Nazzari & Erin Coates.⁠
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David Bieldander is represented by @galleryfunaki⁠
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photo @evafernandezartist

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Time is running out to see our last exhibitions of 2019! Don't miss Anna Nazzari & Erin Coates' exhibition Fauna Flesh Flora, and Helen Britton & David Bielander's The Rage of Dekoration & The Room of Lies.
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Anna Nazzari, Sea drain, watercolour on paper, 48 x 60cm, 2019 (detail)

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Helen Britton's art objects are really quite extraordinary, and you can wear them! This brooch is titled Last Fish (silver, paint, vintage plastic, vintage glass, 13 x 7 x 1.5cm, 2019).
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Photo: Eva Fernandez
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Helen is represented by @galleryfunaki⁠
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Exhibition install shot of Erin Coates' side of the room in Fauna Flesh Flora, her two person exhibition with Anna Nazzari. Photo Eva Fernandez.
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Exhibition continues to 23 November, & can be viewed on our website: https://t.co/W7ePPSOvj8

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"You cannot tell what is real. And this is the trompe l’oeil, not only in the object itself but also in the interaction between these objects."
David Bielander, interview Vera Sacchetti, 2017. Image: Paper bag [wine], patinated silver, 37 x 10 x 7cm, 2016. Photo, Eva Fernandez

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"I recognize that in this space, I am literally dwelling with the dead”
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(Anna Nazzari in Visual Arts Practice and Affect: Place, Materiality and Embodied Knowing by Ann Shilo. Image: A Nazzari, Burial grounds, scrimshaw on antique sperm whale tooth, 14 x 9 x 2.5cm, 2015)

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In Fauna Flesh Flora, Erin Coates and Anna Nazzari explore the Oceanic Gothic via the surreal physiology of local marine flora and fauna.

E. Coates, Ear finger zoanthid, graphite on paper, 44 x 51cm, 2019. Full exhibition can be viewed on our website: https://t.co/W7ePPSOvj8

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...finally, miraculously, the first flitting glimpse becomes a pulsing, living thing, sitting on the table, autonomous and complete, without any trace of doubt, quite capable of leading a life of it own.
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Helen Britton "The End of Doubt"
Image: David Bielander, Slug Family

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This fabulous brooch is by our current Artist in Residence Helen Britton. Titled Comfort and Chains: Plenty, it is made from silver, paint, anodised aluminium, 11 x 8 x 1.5cm, 2019.

Represented by @galleryfunaki

photo @eiseldirk

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Image: David Bielander's extraordinary Cardboard (watch), made from silver with white gold staples.
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View it in The Room of LIes at Turner Galleries, a two person exhibition with Helen Britton.
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Turner is open today from 11am to 5pm.

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Anna Nazzari's exquisite watercolour, "Bruised" (48 x 60cm
2019 detail) from her current two person exhibition "Fauna Flesh Flora" with Erin Coates. On show at Turner until 23 November. Don't miss this fabulous exhibition, filled with underwater gothic themes.

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Loving this photograph from Helen Britton featuring some of her very special pieces that she has collected over the years, and that also feature in drawings in her current exhibition at Turner. On show until 23 November.
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Helen is represented by Gallery Funaki, Melbourne.

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Many thanks to everyone who came along to celebrate our exhibition openings, and artist talks the following day, by Helen Britton, David Bielander, Anna Nazzari & Erin Coates.
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Images now up on our Facebook page.
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Image: Anna Nazzari, Helen Turner & Erin Coates.

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OPENING TONIGHT!
Two exhibitions featuring two pairs of artists: Anna Nazzari & Erin Coates, and Helen Britton & David Bielander.
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Image: Erin Coates, we taste the sea #1 - #15
glazed ceramic, silicon, pigment, dimensions variable, 2019 (photo Michelle Becker)