At PICA we recognise that we are situated within the unceded lands of the Whadjuk people of the Noongar Nation. We pay our respects and offer our gratitude to Elders past and present, and to those emerging leaders in the community. We acknowledge all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and the importance of their care and continued connection to culture, community and Country.

Always was, always will be.

Galleries are open today, 10am–5pm. Our exhibitions are always free.

JC, PVI COLLECTIVE

Open Studios

Open Studios

In 2024 PICA inaugurated two new studio programs. Our Company-in-Residence program is a three-year residency for a WA arts company and invites solidarity and sector collaboration by sharing resources, ideas and spaces. The Hyper Local program is a six-month residency for a WA artist that shares space and resources to allow for the development and realisation of major projects or new bodies of work. 

Join us at our next Open Studio event to meet current Company-in-Residence, pvi collective and current Hyper Local studio artist, JC. In conversation with local journalist and co-founder of groundbreaking LGBTAQI+ news outlet OUTinPerth, Graeme Watson, pvi and JC will discuss their current projects and processes. With food and drink on us, it’s a opportunity to celebrate PICA’s growing arts ecology, bringing together artists from all disciplines to explore new ideas and experiment with their practice. 

pvi collective is an experimental art group who create darkly playful participatory artworks and interventions. They are currently working on an immersive roleplaying adventure about the future of activism titled ‘booster.’ ‘booster’ invites audiences to take to the streets and time travel their way across global social movements throughout history, experiencing moments of rupture and refusal that went on to change the world as we know it. ‘booster’ aims to empower audiences to speculate on the future we want to have and collectivise a pathway towards it. 

JC’s project uses augmented reality (AR) technologies that presence queer histories in Perth’s public spaces. Drawing on the WestPride Archives (formerly GALAWA, the Gay And Lesbian Archive of Western Australia) and oral histories of their elders and peers, they will develop virtual sculptures (including avatars) placed around select locations in Perth that are significant to its queer community. 

Schedule 
5pm Studios & Galleries open 
6pm Artist talks 
7:30pm Galleries close 

Register to attend Open Studios



About the artists

Graeme Watson is half of the team that create the award winning LGBTIQA+ news site OUTinPerth. Also a broadcaster at RTRFM 92.1 and a regular guest on a wide range of news and television programs, Graeme comments on news, politics, arts and culture. He’s also been a dancer, a pit boss, a producer of theatre and film, and flirted briefly with academia.   

JC completed an Honours degree in contemporary arts in 2010, and has developed an interdisciplinary practice that spans socially engaged practice, visual arts, live/performance art, emerging and experimental practices. Their creative practice is concerned with investigating contemporary conceptions around gender, sexuality, desire and embodied identity, and building resilience in an increasingly precarious world. 

Founded in 1998 and based on Whadjuk Noongar Country, pvi collective is an experimental art group who create playfully participatory artworks and public interventions. As an artist-led group, they are committed to ensuring that audiences experience fun artworks that negotiate difficult issues in provocative and accessible ways. 

Supporters

Open Studios are supported by Community Engagement Partner City of Perth

City of Perth, City of Light

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