Kent Street Gallery

Kent Street Gallery Kent Street Gallery is an exhibition space located inside Victoria Park Centre for the Arts.

‘Nga Toenga – What we leave behind’ by Shannon Frankis is currently exhibiting in the Main Gallery. The exhibition is an...
03/09/2026

‘Nga Toenga – What we leave behind’ by Shannon Frankis is currently exhibiting in the Main Gallery. The exhibition is an exploration of cultural identity, love, loss and how current culture fed through the media affects tradition. A combination of large and small atmospheric works with an emotional residue of things lost and things left behind.

Exhibition will run until September 15.

Applications for our 2027 Exhibition Program are currently open. Submissions are due 4 September, so please get in touch...
31/08/2026

Applications for our 2027 Exhibition Program are currently open. Submissions are due 4 September, so please get in touch with a proposal if you have been considering!

The Victoria Park Centre for the Arts supports arts, culture, and community. We welcome contemporary art practices from artists of all backgrounds and experiences, prioritising First Nations, culturally and linguistically diverse, LGBTIQA+ artists, artists with disability, and local artists. We believe in art for all, and run an accessible program of creative workshops and cultural events. Our exhibition program spans from contemporary and exploratory work to social practice, craft, and cultural performance.

In 2027, we have five spaces for exhibition: the Main Gallery, the Front Room Gallery, the Entranceway Gallery, the Children’s Gallery and the Box Gallery.

We welcome applications from artists of all abilities. You can find further information on our website here: https://vicparkarts.org.au/kentstreetgallery/eoi/

If you require any assistance, please get in touch with [email protected] or (08) 6454 1803.

(Pictured: Laura Ward, Fragile, 2025)

Come along to the exhibition opening tonight! We have ‘Nga Toenga – What we leave behind’ by Shannon Frankis opening fro...
28/08/2026

Come along to the exhibition opening tonight! We have ‘Nga Toenga – What we leave behind’ by Shannon Frankis opening from 5.30pm-7.30pm, Friday 28 August.

The exhibition is an exploration of cultural identity, love, loss and how current culture fed through the media affects tradition. A combination of large and small atmospheric works with an emotional residue of things lost and things left behind.

These works are predominantly female portraits or figures in private moments with bicultural ethnicity, carrying cultural motifs which can be read as autobiographical – Polynesian/Maori/English.

Exhibition runs through to September 15.

(Pictured: Shannon Frankis, 'Pink Colonial')

Applications for our 2027 Exhibition Program are currently open. Submissions are due 4 September, so please get in touch...
27/08/2026

Applications for our 2027 Exhibition Program are currently open. Submissions are due 4 September, so please get in touch with a proposal if you have been considering!

The Victoria Park Centre for the Arts supports arts, culture, and community. We welcome contemporary art practices from artists of all backgrounds and experiences, prioritising First Nations, culturally and linguistically diverse, LGBTIQA+ artists, artists with disability, and local artists. We believe in art for all, and run an accessible program of creative workshops and cultural events. Our exhibition program spans from contemporary and exploratory work to social practice, craft, and cultural performance.

In 2027, we have five spaces for exhibition: the Main Gallery, the Front Room Gallery, the Entranceway Gallery, the Children’s Gallery and the Box Gallery.

We welcome applications from artists of all abilities. You can find further information on our website here: https://vicparkarts.org.au/kentstreetgallery/eoi/

If you require any assistance, please get in touch with [email protected] or (08) 6454 1803.

(Pictured: Kenneth Lewsey, YODyssey, 2025)

The Geoffrey Kay Solo Exhibition will be opening in the Front Room from August 28. Geoffrey paints about the human condi...
26/08/2026

The Geoffrey Kay Solo Exhibition will be opening in the Front Room from August 28. Geoffrey paints about the human condition, and the emotions at the heart of who people are. These paintings offer clarity as to what is important and meaningful in life. He teaches oil painting in his private studio.

The exhibition will run until 14 September.

(Pictured: Geoffrey Kay, Fire, 2011)

Applications for our 2027 Exhibition Program are due 4th September, please get in touch with a submission soon if you ar...
25/08/2026

Applications for our 2027 Exhibition Program are due 4th September, please get in touch with a submission soon if you are considering applying!

We have a few new spaces on offer next year, that provide some smaller, more accessible opportunities -

The Children’s Gallery: located within our gift shop on Kent Street, consisting of a single green felt wall with 4m of horizontal space. We are welcoming all artists under the age of 18 who wish to work with their parent or guardian to host a small exhibition.

The Entranceway Gallery: a hallway in-between our large and small gallery spaces with 11m of horizontal wall space.

The Box Gallery: a series of three 1.5 metre boxes located in Victoria Park Central.

These spaces are in addition to our two main gallery spaces, the Main Gallery and the Front Room.

You can find further information on our website here: https://vicparkarts.org.au/kentstreetgallery/eoi/

(Pictured: Works by Lovell Zhu, Ruby Deurloo, Sarah Eve)

‘Nga Toenga – What we leave behind’ by Shannon Frankis will be opening this Friday, 28 August, 5.30pm-7.30pm. Please com...
24/08/2026

‘Nga Toenga – What we leave behind’ by Shannon Frankis will be opening this Friday, 28 August, 5.30pm-7.30pm. Please come along!

The exhibition is an exploration of cultural identity, love, loss and how current culture fed through the media affects tradition. A combination of large and small atmospheric works with an emotional residue of things lost and things left behind.

These works are predominantly female portraits or figures in private moments with bicultural ethnicity, carrying cultural motifs which can be read as autobiographical – Polynesian/Maori/English.

Exhibition runs through to September 15.

(Pictured: Te Waka whero i te Ngahere (Red Canoe in the Forest), 2023)

Last week to see ‘Ambient Daydreams’, Emiko Watanabe's beautiful collection of photographs inspired by observations of n...
20/08/2026

Last week to see ‘Ambient Daydreams’, Emiko Watanabe's beautiful collection of photographs inspired by observations of nature, currently being exhibited in the Front Room.

Emiko Watanabe is a Boorloo (Perth) based photographer who works with 35mm film and captures fleeting moments and the beauty in the mundane.

Open until 25 August.

(Pictured: Emiko Watanabe, Ambient Daydreams, 2026) .snaps

Only one more week to see ‘An Unnatural History of Moths’ by Christopher Crouch and Cherish Marrington currently showing...
19/08/2026

Only one more week to see ‘An Unnatural History of Moths’ by Christopher Crouch and Cherish Marrington currently showing in the Main Gallery, running until 25 August.

A fictitious world depicted in a collection of intricate drawings and watercolours, made by Christopher Crouch and Cherish Marrington working on the same work.

‘We are faced with an environmental catastrophe where an established cannon of beauty means nothing as forests die, species vanish and the natural world that we thought would give us solace forever burns and floods and changes into something new.’

These drawings are part of an ongoing body of work based on the concept of camouflaged moths.



(Pictured: Christopher Crouch and Cherish Marrington, 'Pluviôse', 'Floréal', 'Messidor', 'Brumaire', 2026)

‘An Unnatural History of Moths’ by Christopher Crouch and Cherish Marrington is currently showing in the Main Gallery, r...
13/08/2026

‘An Unnatural History of Moths’ by Christopher Crouch and Cherish Marrington is currently showing in the Main Gallery, running until 25 August.

The exhibition is a collection of drawings and watercolours based on the concept of camouflaged moths. The moths are fictitious and exist in a fictitious landscape, but the principles of camouflage remain. They are both apart from the landscape and pretending to be it. The world that is depicted is a figment of the artist’s imagination, and the process by which they are made involves Christopher Crouch and Cherish Marrington working on the same work, creating a space that is coherent but alienating. This show is a part of an ongoing body of work.

‘We are faced with an environmental catastrophe where an established cannon of beauty means nothing as forests die, species vanish and the natural world that we thought would give us solace forever burns and floods and changes into something new.’

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12 Kent Street, East Victoria Park
Perth, WA
6101

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Monday 10am - 2:30pm
Tuesday 10am - 4pm
Wednesday 10am - 4pm
Thursday 10am - 4pm
Friday 10am - 4pm

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