The South West Survey presents recent work from artists living and working across the southern half of Western Australia. Part of the South West Biennial 2026 : Tracework, the exhibition offers a snapshot of contemporary regional practice. This collection responds to the physical and cultural landscapes of regional Western Australia, a place as diverse as the artists and works produced here. Some works attend to material and process, others to image, story or memory. Some emerge from daily routines or long-term observation, others from specific sites, events or conditions.
Brought together in one place, the exhibition invites works to sit alongside one another, allowing shared concerns and points of friction to surface across material, environment, and lived experience. Within the Biennial’s framework of Tracework, attention is given to marks, impressions, and forms of contact: gestures repeated over time, traces of labour, and the ways artists register their surrounds through making.
With Bunbury Regional Art Gallery at its centre, these connections extend across the region through a network of partner venues including Arts Narrogin, Southern Forest Arts, Margaret River HEART, Albany Town Hall and Vancouver Arts Centre, where several participating artists will present further work. The survey exhibition has now travelled in full to the Holmes à Court Gallery @ no.10 in West Perth, carrying regional practice into a metropolitan context while maintaining the relationships formed across sites.
Amanda Bell • Carly Le Cerf + Jean Michel Maujean • Cher Shackleton • Creed Birch • Deidre Robb • Gisela Züchner-Mogall • Heloise Roberts + Moira Fearby • James Walker • Jenny Scott • Lori Pensini • Louise Tasker • Lyn Nixon • Marcia Leonard • Margaret Sanders • Matt Almera • Melissa Boughey • Michelle Slarke • Nichole Lubcke • Rachel Falls Williams • Ruth Halbert + Elisa Markes-Young • Samantha Dennison • Sophie Brennan, Lyndon Kidman + Ellen Broadhurst • Tara Boulevard
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