Revealed: New and Emerging WA Aboriginal Artists returns to PICA, celebrating the diversity and vitality of contemporary Aboriginal art across Western Australia. Featuring artists working independently and through Aboriginal art centres, the exhibition highlights the important role of Aboriginal-led arts in strengthening communities, keeping culture strong and truth-telling. Students can explore how artists express cultural identity, connection to Country and living traditions through diverse materials, techniques and new technologies. The exhibition invites reflection on how contemporary Aboriginal artists challenge historical perspectives and contribute to Australian culture. Through this experience students can deepen their understanding of cultural and artistic conventions. 

Term: 2, Week 1-8 | Year level: 3-12 | Learning area: The Arts (Visual Arts), HASS (History, Geography, Civics and Citizenship, Economics & Business) 

Under Waters by Wiradjuri–Scottish artist April Phillips and Friends with Computers is an interactive, multi-sensory installation and PICA’s inaugural boorda yeyi Immersive Arts Commission. Using light, sound and projection, the artwork explores First Nations cosmology and connection to Country encompassing land, sea, sky, plants, animals and people. Students are invited to reflect on the ways contemporary artists use new technologies to engage audiences and convey First Nations worldviews and stories. 

Term: 1, Week 3-8 | Year level: All | Learning area: The Arts (Visual Arts, Media Arts), Technologies (Digital Technologies), HASS (Geography), Science (Earth and Space Sciences) 

Awakening Histories reframes understandings of history and sovereignty through First Nations perspectives, inviting students to question colonial assumptions. First Nations and Southeast Asian artists explore the centuries-old histories of trade, migration and cultural exchange between northern Australia and South Sulawesi—long before European arrival. Students can trace the journeys of Makassan seafarers who travelled with the seasonal winds to the Kimberley, Arnhem Land and Garamilla (Darwin) in search of trepang (sea cucumber). Investigate how artists express identity, culture and connection to Country which encompasses seas, waterways, sky, plants, animals, stories and people. 

Term: 1, Week 1-8 | Year level: 5-12 Learning area: The Arts (Visual Arts), HASS (History, Geography, Civics and Citizenship) 

All That Country Holds shares the perspectives of Kimberly-based Aboriginal artists on place and identity, celebrating the resilience and strength of First Peoples. This exhibition of Western Australian Aboriginal art, brought together through six Kimberley art centres, was showcased at the Australian Embassy in Washington DC, highlighting the region’s Country, culture and traditions. It is an opportunity for students to engage with First Nations worldviews and explore how contemporary Aboriginal artists represent ancestral knowledge alongside community life and lived experiences in today’s changing world. 

Term: 2, Week 1-8 | Year level: 3-12 | Learning area: The Arts (Visual Arts), HASS (History, Geography, Civics and Citizenship)