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Sir David Brand School and Community Arts Network

High VisAbility: Pop-up Exhibition

High VisAbility: Pop-up Exhibition

Come and celebrate identity, visibility and possibility at a playful pop-up exhibition at PICA as part of the 2024 AWESOME Festival.

This colourful display features bold artwork created as part of High VisAbility – a project that illuminates young artists with disabilities. Students from Sir David Brand School collaborated with artists Mandy White and Natalie Scholtz to produce digitised fluorescent sculptures and quirky animations. 

For more information about the High VisAbility project, click the button below.

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Special Event: Drawing with Mandy White

Join Mandy in the PICA foyer for a mindful drawing workshop that explores colour, creativity and any creature your imagination can conjure!

Dates 24 and 26 September
Times 10:30am–12:30pm
Venue PICA Foyer
Suitable For Families, local community, kids, contemporary art lovers

About the Artists

Mandy White is renowned for her vibrant creatures and is a prolific and award-winning Yamatji artist with lived experience of disability. Mandy’s work Creatures of the Crystal Caves won the Joondalup Invitation Art Prize in 2021, and others have been acquired by the Art Gallery of Western Australia and the City of Stirling. Mandy worked with long-time collaborator Natalie Scholtz to co-lead workshops for students with disabilities at Sir David Brand School for the High VisAbility project. 

Sir David Brand School provides individually structured programs for students with disabilities from the age of 4–18 years.

CAN – Community Arts Network unlocks Western Australia’s untold stories through community participation in art. Giving voice to stories and art of all forms to create positive social change, building inclusion and understanding between people. 

Supporters

Co-presented by CAN, the High VisAbility exhibition at PICA is presented during the 2024 AWESOME Festival.

 

Images: Mandy White, High VisAbility, Community Arts Network (CAN) and Sir David Brand School, installation view, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA), 2024. Photos: Edwin Sitt

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