Perth Art Weekend Returns: A Three-Day Immersion in Contemporary Creativity
This October, Perth once again transforms into a city-wide studio as Perth Art Weekend returns for its second edition — a refined, three-day program running from Friday, October 17 to Sunday, October 19, 2025. The event turns the city into a living gallery, with exhibitions, performances, conversations, and community moments unfolding across streets, galleries, and cultural spaces.
Thoughtfully curated and quietly ambitious, this year’s program celebrates Perth’s growing confidence as a creative capital — a place where art, design, and innovation intersect with effortless poise.
Featured Events
Friday, 17 October 2025
- Fantastic Forms — John Curtin Art Gallery
- The Lester Prize for Portraiture — WA Museum Boola Bardip
- Subi Art Walk for Perth Art Weekend — Walmsley Lane, Subiaco
- Everyday, Myths and Legends — John Curtin Art Gallery
- Dirt Feeling — John Curtin Art Gallery
- Artist Jacobus Capone Exhibition GENESIS — Cathedral Square
- Stain Exhibition — NS Nyisztor Studio
- Guided Tour with Curator Lia McNight — John Curtin Art Gallery
- Guided Tour with Curator Connie Petrillo — Council House, Perth
- Re-PLAY — Art Gallery of Western Australia
- GUNFU TWO: Stephen Brameld x Jay Staples x GunFu — Lawson Flats
- Anna Nazzari Exhibition Opening — NS Nyisztor Studio
Saturday, 18 October 2025
- The Lester Prize for Portraiture — WA Museum Boola Bardip
- Mundaring Hills Open Studios
- Army Art — Leeuwin Barracks
- Re-PLAY — Art Gallery of Western Australia
- Foundations of Rendering with Ross Potter — South Perth Community Hall
- State Art Collection Tour with AGWA Curator Robert Cook — Art Gallery of Western Australia
- Stain Exhibition — NS Nyisztor Studio
- Artist Jacobus Capone Exhibition GENESIS — Cathedral Square
- Life Drawing Session — WA Museum Boola Bardip
- Guided Tour with Artist Alana Hunt — PICA
- Place Makers Curatorial Tour with Lee Kinsella — Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery
- Guided Tour with Second Generation Collective Vádye Eshgh (Valley of Love) — PICA
- Art, Ecology, and Consciousness — Forrest Hall Auditorium
- Meet the Gallerist and Collector Olivier David — OFFMARKET Gallery
- What Comes Next? — PICA
- Garden Party & Studio Visit with Artist Corinne Barton — The Birches
- AGWA Foreign Language Guided Tour in French with Capucine Flipo — Art Gallery of Western Australia
Sunday, 19 October 2025
- The Lester Prize for Portraiture — WA Museum Boola Bardip
- Studio Visit with Artist Tania Ferrier — South Fremantle
- MY OCEAN with Artist Ian Daniell — WA Museum Boola Bardip
- Mundaring Hills Open Studios
- Army Art — Leeuwin Barracks
- Re-PLAY — Art Gallery of Western Australia
- Meet the Gallerist and Collector Olivier David — OFFMARKET Gallery
- Stain Exhibition — NS Nyisztor Studio
- Guided Tour at The Art Sanctuary — Art Sanctuary Foundation
- Meet the Gallerist Margaret Moore — Cathedral Square
- Everyday, Myths and Legends — John Curtin Art Gallery
- Dirt Feeling — John Curtin Art Gallery
- Fantastic Forms — John Curtin Art Gallery
- Garden Party with Collector Thomas Murrell — Fairview Historic Home
- Studio Visit with Caroline Christie-Coxon — North Fremantle
- Studio Visit with Matthew McVeigh — Maylands
- Guzheng Grand Ensemble — WA Museum Boola Bardip
Program & Access
The full schedule — including exhibitions, panel discussions, and private gatherings — is available at digital.perthartweekend.com. Most events are free, though some require registration or limited capacity.
Locations (with Links)
- WA Museum Boola Bardip — Perth Cultural Centre, Perth CBD
- John Curtin Art Gallery — Curtin University, Bentley
- Art Gallery of Western Australia — Perth Cultural Centre, Northbridge
- PICA — Perth Cultural Centre, Northbridge
- NS Nyisztor Studio — Fremantle
- Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery — UWA
A Weekend of Art and Connection
Perth Art Weekend presents a portrait of a city in creative dialogue with itself. Across disciplines and generations, the weekend highlights Perth’s distinct rhythm — grounded in community, outward-looking, and globally aware. For those who value art not as spectacle but as exchange, this is a weekend to engage deeply — to see, listen, and be inspired by what’s emerging here, now.
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