Art Collection

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About the Art Collection

The City’s Art Collection is one of Western Australia’s most diverse municipal art holdings, with more than 480 works ranging from painting and printmaking to textiles and sculpture. The collection reflects the cultural heritage, creativity and lifestyle of the community, while supporting local and Western Australian artists.

_{Image: 'Silver Gulls' by Abdul-Rahman Abdullah (2024, Jesmonite, paint)}

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View the Collection

Artworks from the collection are displayed across libraries, community and recreation centres and the Civic Centre and from time to time, displayed in curated exhibitions at our Cultural Centres.

You can view a curated selection of pictures online in our Collection in Focus below. This current collection focuses on the natural world, from orchids and rivers to cliff top views and suburban streets.

_{Image: 'Wadjemup - Between Lake Vincent and Little Parakeet Bay II' by Jane Tangney (2022, oil and beeswax on canvas)}

Collection in Focus

'A sense of something' by Jaelle Pedroli (2024, acrylic on board)

'Donkey Orchids' by Judy Rogers (2023, watercolour and ink on board)

'No Service for Charlie' by Rohin Kickett (2025, acrylic and oil on wood)

'Bin Day' by Steven Makse (2024, oil on canvas)

'Djilab-k Kwobidak Bilya' by Zali Morgan (2024, watercolour monotype)

Drawing from her deep connection to Jenalup / Blackwall Reach, Pedroli’s luminous acrylic brings to life the cliffs, water and bush that define her local landscape. A finalist in numerous WA landscape prizes, her work reflects belonging through place-based observation.

Ballardong Noongar artist Rohin Kickett confronts history in this commissioned work. Drawing on his great-grandfather’s experience of being denied service at the Raffles Hotel, the work entwines ancestral stories, place and family resilience.

Created during her residency at Yagan Mia Wireless Hill amid its abundant wildflowers, Rogers captures native Donkey Orchids in delicate detail. The Hungarian-born, science trained artist approaches WA flora like a cabinet of curiosities: imperfect, fleeting, and wondrous.

Locally-based artist Steven Makse finds existential poetry in everyday suburbia. With refined technique and sensitivity, 'Bin Day' elevates an ordinary street scene, inviting quiet reflection on beauty embedded in routine and quotidian rhythms.

Whadjuk, Ballardong and Wilman Noongar artist Zali Morgan created this watercolour monotype during her Goolugatup Heathcote residency. Evoking the Derbal Yerrigan (Swan River) the work layers abstract form with cultural memory to reflect place and decolonising narratives.

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Find Out More

If you have any questions or would like more information about the Art Collection, please get in touch with Art Collection Curator via email at [email protected].

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_{Image: 'Yellow Taxi's' by Laurel Nannup (2016 - etching print on paper)}

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