Twelve artists from the suburbs use their unique imaginings to express the feelings that arise from their situation and existence.

Through diverse visual concepts and both traditional and experimental mediums, this body of work invites audiences to engage with suburbia in layered and unexpected ways.

From early settlements built around survival to today’s complex lifestyle choices, suburbia carries its own language of parks, coastlines, bushland, isolation and community. As reflected in David Lynch: The Art Life, houses hold unseen stories behind lit or darkened windows. We may choose where we live, but do these sub urban undercurrents ultimately shape who we become?

Step into a world where the tiniest creatures take centre stage.

Small Wonders brings together a diverse group of artists exploring the beauty, complexity and quiet power of insects through painting, sculpture, photography and mixed media.

From delicate details to bold interpretations, this collective exhibition invites you to slow down, look closer and rediscover the extraordinary life buzzing all around us.

A celebration of nature, curiosity and creative perspective—proof that even the smallest subjects can leave a lasting impression.

Small Wonders, 20 Feb - 19 Apr @ Ellenbrook Arts

A Quiet Place is a curated solo exhibition by Harry Lea, a collection of paintings that celebrate vibrant colour, natural beauty, and the living character of land and sea in Western Australia.

Each work invites the viewer into a moment of calm, where landscapes and seascapes come alive through Harry’s expressive brushstrokes, offering a gentle pause from the noise of the everyday.

'Reframed Horizons’ is a retrospective of Panizza Allmark's thirty-year photographic practice.

This exhibition engages with photographie féminine her methodology, which unites feminist theory and postmodern documentary methods and uses irony and dialectical framing to challenge and critically reframe. It is a dynamic, ethical visual photographic response to the environment that attempts to subvert dominant representations and draws attention to binaries. Familiar landscapes are transformed into sites of tension and ambiguity, through strategies of doubling, where the familiar appear strange and the strange unsettling familiar, oscillating between the natural and constructed, presence and absence, reality and artifice. Panizza’s photography presents a series of works that convey the politics of the uncanny as an aesthetic practice, by challenging dominant visual narratives of people and place, exposing hidden vistas, and reclaiming vision as a space of resistance to the mundane..

The series of works includes street documentary such as ‘Petals and Pavements’, ‘Double Visions: Double Entendre, to a variety of photojournalistic practice on humanitarian issues that spans from Maesot, Thailand, to Venezia, Italy. 

About Panizza Allmark

Panizza Allmark is a visualista, born in Perth/Boorloo, Western Australia. Her PhD was the first in Australia to explore feminist photographic practices as a street photographer, developing the concept of photographie féminine. Panizza has spent time working across Asia, Europe, North and South America utilizing the techniques of photographie féminine that she has developed. Drawing on écriture féminine, which traces an embodied writing practice, Panizza has refocused this as photographie féminine which engages in a self-reflexive ethical photographic practice that subverts dominant representations through drawing attention to unacknowledged binaries. The uniting of disparate elements is a motif in Panizza’s work, expressive of the mixed ethnic hybridity that she embodies.

For over thirty years Panizza’s photography has been exhibited in group and ten solo exhibitions across London, New York, Frankfurt, Shanghai, Italy and Australia. Panizza has published extensively on photography, gender, representation, and visual storytelling, as well as given several international keynotes on photography.

Panizza Allmark is Professor of Visual and Cultural Studies at Edith Cowan University, Perth Australia.

Further information: https://panizzaallmark.com/upcoming-exhibition-reframed-horizons

The annual members exhibition is a showcase of the diverse practices of our members, celebrating the vibrant spirit of Ellenbrook’s arts community. Exhibiting work from over 40 members of the local community in a range of mediums across printmaking, painting, textiles and more.

Participating Artists:

Amanda Kirk, Amy French, Ann Evans, Anne-Marie Bloor, Ash Jeeloll, Belinda Eldridge, Carleen Wynhorst, Carmen Tyrer, Christine Pearsall, Christl Wulff, Colin Pumphrey, David Karr, Derek Fowler, Faranak Satarzadeh, Fiona Fulker, Frank Penfold, Gina Kitchen, Harry Lea, Helen Mitchell, Jacinta Morris, Jane Carr, Jenny Ellis-Newman, Ken Harvey, Kristy Margam-Elkins, Laura Martin, Lewis Wellington, Lilly Rawlins, Marie Hammat, Martin Burke, Mary White, Mayumi Miyoshi, Nadya Khanikova, Noreen Clapp, Pamela Hume, Philippa Gillett, Rebecca Hepworth, Richard Purbrick, Sally Stone, Sarah Eve, Sebastian Steed, Susan Brennan, and Tami Esancy