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 respond to social, cultural and historical contexts in WA. The exhibition invites reflection on how contemporary Aboriginal artists communicate their lived experiences and perspectives, using art as a tool for social commentary and contributing to community. 

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

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 local community context in an International setting. Students can explore how contemporary Aboriginal artists use art to 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) 

SPACED: Circular Economies brings together local, Australian and Indonesian artists working with communities across regional WA as part of SPACED’s artist-in-residence program. Hosted by a regional arts organisation and supported by a local arts-worker, each artist exchanged knowledge and skills with people in the places the program brought them to. Students can examine how artists collaborate with communities to create site-responsive and socially engaged artworks. They’ll explore how art can renew place-based knowledge, building shared understanding and social connection and investigate how human, environmental and economic systems interact in a local context.  

Term: 4, Week 2-10 | Year level: 5-12 | Learning area: The Arts (Visual Arts), HASS (History, Geography, Civics and Citizenship, Economics & Business)