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Always was, always will be.

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

Weekends at PICA: Bunuru

Weekends at PICA: Bunuru

PICA celebrates the opening of its first exhibition season for 2025 with an afternoon of talks and discussion focusing on two exhibitions, Laure Prouvost’s Oui Move in You and In her Footsteps: A Tribute to Matrilineal Legacy.  

Oui Move In You is a major solo exhibition by Turner Award-winning, French artist Laure Prouvost. Inspired by the radical, experimental and pathfinding figures who came before her, Oui Move In You conceptually explores the roles and legacies of grandmothers (both real and symbolic), the maternal spaces of mother and child, and ideas of intergenerational relationships and change. These legacies are carried into In Her Footsteps: A Tribute to Matilineal Legacies, a group exhibition featuring the work of seven Australian artists who pay homage to the women who have shaped their lives—grandmothers, mothers, artistic matriarchs, leaders, ancestors and forebears. 

Join Guest Curator Annika Kristensen as she guides you through a tour of Laure Provost’s exhibition. Following the tour, artists featured in In Her Footsteps, Zali Morgan, Tom Freeman and Lauren Burrow will discuss their work in more detail in a panel facilitated by Clothilde Bullen.  

Schedule: 
3.00-3.30pm: Exhibition Tour, Oui Move in You 
3.30-4.30pm: Artist Panel, In her Footsteps 

About the artists

Annika Kristensen is a curator with a particular interest in commissioning new work by contemporary artists, art in the public domain, and broadening audiences for the arts. Most recently in the position of Visual Arts Curator at Perth Festival (2023, 2024), Kristensen was previously Senior Curator at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA) in Melbourne, where she worked with major international and Australian artists to commission new work. Kristensen was Exhibition and Project Coordinator for the 19th Biennale of Sydney (2014) and the inaugural Nick Waterlow OAM Curatorial Fellow for the 18th Biennale of Sydney (2012). She has also held positions at Frieze Art Fair, Artangel, Film and Video Umbrella, London and The West Australian newspaper, Perth. Kristensen holds an MSc In Art History, Theory and Display from the University of Edinburgh, following undergraduate studies in Arts (Communication Studies) at the University of Western Australia. 

Clothilde Bullen is the Lead, Cultural Strategy and Development at Edith Cowan University and is a Wardandi Nyoongar and Badimaya Yamatji Aboriginal woman. She was previously the Curator and Head of Indigenous Programs at the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Senior Curator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Collections and Exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia and prior to that, the Curator of Indigenous Art at the Art Gallery of Western Australia for over a decade.

Lauren Burrow is a recent Anne and Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship recipient (2023-24) and current candidate in the PhD program at Monash University. Through sculpture and installation, Burrow uses discarded materials such as glass, plastic and water to investigate the flow between the urban and the rural, the individual and the collective and the human and the ecological. Lauren has held solo exhibitions at Pli, Munich (2022); Holden Garage, Berlin (2021) and TCB Art Inc., Melbourne (2019). Her work has been included in group exhibitions at LaTrobe Art Institute, Bendigo (2024), Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane (2023), Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne (2021) and Hessel Museum of Art, New York (2021).   

Walyalup (Fremantle) based artist Tom Freeman’s practice spans various forms of painting, drawing, ceramics and sculptural installation. Driven by a fascination and exploration of materials and processes, his work traverses both 2D and 3D processes across many varied materials, guided by an investigative playfulness and the enjoyment of discovery. Tom’s recent solo and group exhibitions include Spacingout, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth (2023), Teaching a stone to talk, Art Collective WA, Perth (2022), Abstracted, Perth Centre for Photography (2019) and Ramsay Art Prize, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide (2019). Freeman’s works are included in numerous public collections, including the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Curtin University, City of Fremantle and Queensland University of Technology.  

Zali Morgan is a Noongar woman with ancestral connections to Whadjuk, Balladong, and Wilman Boodjar. Born and raised near Wooditchup on Wardandi Boodjar, she is now based near Boorloo. Morgan’s multidisciplinary practice spans printmaking, textiles, sculpture, curating and writing. Often questioning notions of place, Morgan’s practice engages with decolonial art and discourse within Australia through both figurative and abstract representations of her surroundings and history. In 2023, Morgan won the City of South Perth Emerging Art Prize and exhibited in REVEALED at Fremantle Art Centre. Her work has also been shown at Contemporary Art Space Mandurah, Kent Street Gallery and ArtSource. Zali was previously Assistant Curator of Indigenous Art at the Art Gallery of Western Australia and has curated exhibitions at John Curtin Gallery, Edith Cowan University Gallery and Bunbury Regional Art Gallery.   

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