Exhibitions
Art exhibitions in Perth
KolbuszSpace offers a curated schedule of monthly art exhibitions in Perth, promoting innovative and critically engaging early career artists across broad mediums.
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Past Exhibitions

NOV 2023
Diane Scott’s new large paintings and wall sculptures explore the perception and experience of form and space, by using the qualities of composition, orientation, and scale to simultaneously make space visible and to bend it.
Scott seeks the work to be atmospheric and haptic, to find spaces that are unimagined until the moment of making: strength in beauty and the beauty in strength.
Diane Scott is a New Zealand artist who has a Master of Fine Arts (First Class Honours) from Elam School of Fine Arts University of Auckland. She is featured broadly through arts publications and her work is in corporate and private collections in NZ, USA and France.
Image: The Love you Left, 2023. Acrylic, graphite on synthetic paper 152 x 98CM.

NOV 2023
Peat harbours a complex history, synonymous with broader social, political and ecological issues. However humble, it is emblematic of the inextricable link between man and nature. Taking peat as its subject, this exhibition of drawings and cast forms is both an enquiry into – and an ode to the significance of peat as matter of great consequence.
Since graduating from Fine Arts at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Kotsoglo has completed arts residencies in Iceland (SIM Residency, NES Residency) and Scotland (The Bothy Project), and exhibited both nationally and internationally as part of group and solo exhibitions. Her work is held in private collections around the world.
Image: Peat Cast 1, 2023. Bronze 10 x 7 x 7CM.

OCT 2023
Revelations of self are instead the result of lived experience; a cumulative process of understanding. Day-to-day, we find ourselves engaging with the mundane and the extraordinary, making sense of what we can. Our identities are shaped by the very forces we navigate; the enduring legacy of our wrestling with choices and emotions; with the parts of ourselves we gladly inherit — and those which are foist upon us.
This new body of work by Luke Kolbusz is a visual articulation of this deeply personal, singular process. In the way all protagonists of dreams are ourselves, these self-portraits oscillate between absence and presence; bleeding and blurring, interspersed with moments of intense detail – all rendered in a counter-intuitive and highly unconventional palette, striking in its breadth and intensity. Faceless figures are embroiled with signs in scenes that feel both laden with symbolism yet remain wholly disorienting in their obscurity – and deliberately so. (excerpt Imogen Kotsoglo, October 2023)
This will be Luke Kolbusz’s third solo exhibition since graduation from Fine Arts at the University of Western Australia and after his sell-out exhibition Big World in 2020 and New Armour in 2021.
Image: Domestic, 2023. Acrylic and oil on linen. 102 x 76CM

OCT 2023
Expanded sculptural forms sit at the intersect of art and industrial lighting design in this exhibition of new works by Kartika Laili Ahmad. While often imbued with a sense of nostalgia, Ahmad’s most recent works offer an aesthetic investigation into our present and future; this exhibition demonstrating Ahmad’s exploration of ideas surrounding anthropomorphism and personification through gradients and opacity.
Ahmad’s exhibition Brutalist at KolbuszSpace in 2022 received attention from across Australia and the UK and sold out.
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Image: Buxom, 2023. Stainless Steel, perspex, argon, neon 120 x 120 x 60CM. Edition 3/9 vanilla veet.

SEPTEMBER 2023
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Scott explores the tensions that exist between image and object and questions the hierarchies of the elements that comprise painting through the jumping of the image to the material, and from surface to void. She examines how an abstract painting can function as an object you see, but also in what that object makes visible through process, materiality and sensation.
Scott is interested in producing work that simultaneously questions and withholds, and how this resistance to translation is a vital part of an artwork’s enigma. These new paintings in acrylic and graphite on sealed synthetic paper, show a transition from hard edge to organic and hyper focus on Scott’s fascination with space, lines and edges.
Diane Scott is a New Zealand artist who has a Master of Fine Arts (First Class Honours) from Elam School of Fine Arts University of Auckland. She is featured broadly through arts publications and her work is in corporate and private collections in NZ, USA and France.
Image: Burning Gold, 2023. Acrylic, graphite on sales synthetic paper. 590 X 420MM

SEPTEMBER 2023
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STOCKROOM S P O T L I G H T
New works by represented KolbuszSpace artists including Robyn BERNADT, Christophe CANATO, Olivia COLJA, John EDEN, Mal HARRY, Austin HONOUR, Beverley ILES, Gaye JURISICH, Waldemar KOLBUSZ, Matthew McVEIGH, Ryan NAZZARI and Diane SCOTT.
Image: Christophe Canato: HOMO FABER – Siguë, 2022-23. Archival inkjet print, archival Hahnemühle paper, hand applied glitter 80 x 80CM, ED of 5.

AUG 2023
Hyperreality seeks to examine the understanding of our shared existence, shaped and constructed as it is by culture and media. And while not a formal reflection of hyperreality, Bisley’s works are instead imbued with its very essence; each a cohesive – albeit innately fragmented – gesture. HYPER REAL is Bisley’s reckoning with a brave new digital world wherein tangibility is devalued, and truth subsumed by optics.
These are tapestries of sorts, hung with a reverence often reserved for such. Yet where tapestries find their roots in elite settings and often in the form of highly figurative, delicate homages to the divine, Bisley’s works offer something more. The works in HYPER REAL possess a functional durability, constructed from remnant yarns. They largely depict fragmented, abstract scenes that elevate the mundane; and where gender has long since underpinned the history of textiles, these works feel distinctly genderless.
Bisley was a finalist in the prestigious 2021 Wangaratta Contemporary Textile Award and this is her anticipated first solo exhibition.
Image: Georgia BISLEY. Dark Academia, 2023. Wool on linen, 260 x 150CM.

JULY 2023
“This series of paintings are palpable intermissions simmering with a jostling, charged fragility. Large-scale and saturated, while their subjects are of foreign exterior places abroad, somewhere beyond the 129th meridian, their essence is about interior states: something amorphous, something incomprehensible.”
These are not just paintings that make us feel or reflect on serious or frivolous emotions; but works that enact a scepticism regarding the very experience of serious and frivolous emotions in themselves. Feelings are immeasurable. Does painting produce, capture, reflect or nullify them? In Kolbusz’s hands, the content leaks between limbo and surety; I am free to choose, I am no longer content.”
Excerpt from Diversions by Aimee Dodds, June 2023
Image: Infinity, 2023. Oil on linen, 153 x 138CM.
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JUNE 2023
New photography and sculpture by WA based artist Sam Bloor. 09/06 brings together elements of found painting, energetic mark-making, and hostile architecture in the voice of the contemporary post-vandalism movement.
Bloor has exhibited in a number of important exhibitions both nationally and internationally including the sold-out Birth and Death of a Mountain (2020) at KolbuszSpace and was commissioned to produce a major public work as part of the 2022 Perth Festival program. Bloor has won multiple awards and is represented in both private and public collections.
Image: Bloom, 2023. Archival digital print on Canson rag photographique, 60 x 85CM.

MAY 2023
“As a tourist in the Karijini gorges, I feel acutely aware of being out of place. However, beyond the awe-inspiring beauty I am starting to understand the spiritual side of this land, its sacred role to dreamtime; it is palpable. My respect and gratitude to First Nations people, to elders past and present, storytellers, keepers of knowledge, and cultural custodians; this is your land, and it always will be. I am humbled to have seen it and walked upon it. The gorges now live in my brain, in memory, dream and feeling. Through drawing and painting I come to terms with the land and my place in it.”
John Eden graduated from Leeds Polytechnic, BA (hons) Fine Art in 1990 and then finished his post-grad in teaching at Middlesex University. After relocating to Perth, Eden has primarily taught art before realigning seriously with his own practice.
Image: Long Story Short, 2023. Acrylic, spray paint and charcoal on canvas, 192 x 160CM

MAY 2023 – ONLINE ONLY
Blair Gauld is a young artist currently based in Perth working with photography. Having relocated countries often in his childhood and youth, Blair hid behind a camera to cope with intense shyness and difficulty connecting with others. Through his admittedly painful and awkward teens, he developed an acute sensitivity and interest in observing the people around him and then started recognising his own vulnerabilities and dreams in them.
Blair’s portraits and landscapes are optimistic, but they are honest in admitting little resolve in who we really are or what we should do with our lives. His compositions show his, and indeed our own longing to fully experience a deeper understanding for the moments and places he photographs. These works are meticulous in their authenticity.
“I have always been a romantic at heart yet have struggled to express it. For me, my work represents my dream of coming of age and falling in love. My own world.”
Blair is self-taught, honing his skills through more commercial fashion photography and film which he is increasingly in demand for, and will be taking him back to London to work and live. Grace is only Gauld’s second exhibition and KolbuszSpace is excited to be representing him at the beginning of his artistic career.
Image: Santa Monica. Photograph on Canson rag paper, 150 x 100CM.

APR 2023
Gaye Jurisich is a multi-disciplinary artist interested in the interconnections between elements and their surrounding space – between the materials and their spatial experience. She explores encounters between natural and industrial materials, arranging them in mostly unaltered and ephemeral states and is fascinated with the resulting juxtapositions and mutualities, often without need for authorship or ownership.
Intentional Viewpoints takes these narratives back into the studio and re-examines them in paint and clay, both expressively applied and carefully considered. While these new works are dependent upon references which exist in the outside world, Jurisich looks past the obvious and her sources have become layered and complex.
“Meaning for me does not rest in recognizing the source, but rather in seeing the result.”
“For a multi-disciplinary artist with a strong back catalogue, Jurisich’s work is detailed, precise and wild all at once, with her installations and sculptural works falling somewhere between Goldsworthy and Shiota.” Jess McNicol, 2023.
Gaye Jurisich lives and works in Hamilton, New Zealand and is internationally reviewed and respected. Her solo exhibition at KolbuszSpace called Secrets and Exposures in July 2021 sold out and her sculptures have featured in the both the Bondi and Cottesloe Sculpture by the Sea exhibitions. Jurisich has work in numerous international collections including the Pratt Institute in New York.
Image: I’ve Been Looking in all the Wrong Places, 2022. Mixed media on canvas. 240 x 180cm

MARCH 2023
Shadow Self explores both positive and negative aspects of our colonialism as a persuasive psychological influence, as that between an adolescent and their parent. Matthew McVeigh sets up our relationship to country and Nation as both intimate and uneasy, exploring the Australian psyche from the cultural cringe – romantic and gothic, and grounded in tradition ruled by National influences that draw their life from the accretive traditions which have alone created them.
This exhibition is a study of stereotypes, colloquialisms and popular culture, as umbilical connection but also incident to our colonial situation of emigrants nostalgically trying to sing their own songs in a strange land.
The works appropriate imagery and then layer psychological inkblots reflecting shadows of personality that the conscious ego does and doesn’t identify with, coming to terms with its dark history and ultimately reflecting a Nation very much still birthing and becoming.
Matthew McVeigh is an interdisciplinary artist who graduated from WAAPA. His practice is predominantly interested in how identities, histories and institutions can be consumed and subsumed into homogenized narratives. McVeigh’s works have been acquired by the Holmes à Court Collection and the Art Gallery of WA.
Image: Blotch, 2022. Digital print, archival. 120 x 150cm

Online only – March 2023
“If you only have you – make work about you.”
Nazzari is a prolific Perth artist with an obsessive social media presence which belies their introverted and quiet nature. Working with a combination of drawing, painting, screen technology and collage, they constantly work and rework.
These new watercolours are exquisite in their detail and generous with their insights on how we interact with our own inner selves and with others. These stream-of-consciousness paintings jostle a dedicated automation to their practice with a deeply sensitive and humanistic process, ultimately showing a beautiful tension teetering between confidence and fragility.
I am a huge fan of Nazzari and of artists who can through their work, tap into a deep questioning of what makes us who we are, and why we do what we do. However, few are able to match Nazzari’s sense of clarity – or else a willingness to discover it, and all with such masterly and painterly ease.
Image: Ever, 2023. Watercolour on Arches paper, 42 x 30CM.

ONLINE ONLY – MARCH 2023
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Picasso’s legacy is problematic. As one of the most famous and infamous artists of our time, and a personal favourite for artist Matthew McVeigh, he is an idol who needs to be both destroyed yet simultaneously revered for his great contributions to art and culture. McVeigh is not known to be shy of speaking truths to power however in these new works he examines his own male gaze and like Picasso who said, “Good artists borrow and great artists steal”, he has re-imagined an uncancelled Picasso’s body of work placed in a contemporary context.
Matthew McVeigh is an interdisciplinary artist who graduated from WAAPA. His practice is predominantly interested in how identities, histories and institutions can be consumed and subsumed into homogenized narratives. McVeigh’s works have been acquired by important collections including the Holmes à Court Collection and the Art Gallery of Western Australia collection.
Image: Threesome, 2023. Acrylic and oil pastel on canvas, 91 x 122cm.

FEB 2023
Robyn Bernadt is a paper installation artist who works with reclaimed paper materials as an environmental response to art making. Her practice elevates these materials; altering their perceived value and challenging people’s perceptions about the materials they usually throw away. The works take on a value-added life of their own, and the viewer can be forgiven for considering the made and presented objects are of precious materials, given the jewel-like crafting that Bernadt employs.
Glory Box is an installation of five series of paper sculptures and delicate cut-paper works exploring feminist themes and subverting traditional craft practices by juxtaposing material and imagery. Bernadt challenges traditional notions of the domestic sphere and questions problematic stereotypes of the homemaker and sex object.
Bernadt lives and works in Boorloo (Perth), and graduated from Edith Cowan University with a Bachelor of Visual Art in 1999. This is her first exhibition at KolbuszSpace.
Image: X-Stitch Ladies I, 2022. Vintage Women’s Weekly and Arches paper, 36 x 51cm