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Book your National Reconciliation Week Street Banner!

Nov 24, 2025
Each year, banners fly across WA to celebrate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and share the message of reconciliation.

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a detail of the painting Murrunpa by Melissa Sunfly

Book your National Reconciliation Week Street Banner!

24 November 2025
Each year, banners fly across WA to celebrate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and share the message of reconciliation.
Exhibition sign "all that country holds' at entrance to art gallery

Western Australian Aboriginal art showcased in Washington DC

22 October 2025

Media release

A major exhibition showcasing Aboriginal artwork from the Kimberley opens today at the Australian Embassy in Washington DC, presenting new works by First Nations artists with support from the WA Government.
Artists and shoppers looking at painted canvas' at the Revealed art market

New and emerging WA Aboriginal artists Revealed

11 April 2025

Media release

Western Australia's popular showcase of Aboriginal art, Revealed: New and Emerging WA Aboriginal Artists, returns to Perth/Boorloo, presented in the heart of the Perth Cultural Precinct.
A number of people are viewing an Aboriginal Art works on a gallery wall

Perth Cultural Centre to host Revealed showcase in 2025

19 September 2024

Media release

After 10 successful years at the Fremantle Arts Centre, the popular and renowned Revealed Aboriginal art exhibition returns to Perth, bringing together Western Australian Aboriginal art centres and independent artists for an exhibition, art market, and more.
A small group of Aboriginal people sit on the ground painting on an unstretched canvas

Funding to support connection to country in WA communities

13 May 2024

Media release

The State Government’s Connecting to Country grant program is continuing to support Western Australia’s Aboriginal people and organisations to transfer knowledge between generations and preserve culture – 20 projects will each receive up to $25,000 this year.
A small group of people are looking at Aboriginal art works on the wall in an art gallery

Emerging talent in spotlight for Revealed 2024 art exhibition

6 May 2024

Media release

When Revealed 2024 opens its doors on 9 May, visitors to the Aboriginal Art Exhibition at Fremantle Arts Centre will have the opportunity to see more than 150 pieces from some of WA’s finest First Nations artists.
A small group of people looking at Aboriginal art works on the wall in an art gallery

First Nations organisation takes reins for major arts showcase

6 December 2023

Media release

The Aboriginal Art Centre Hub of Western Australia (AACHWA) has been awarded $930,000 by the State Government to lead a major event on the WA arts calendar for 2024-2026.
Waringarri Arts Community Nights and Wirnan Performances teach young people about their culture

Funding supports successful cultural and arts alliance in Kimberley

3 November 2023
More than $1 million in additional funding over 4 years has been approved for the successful Wirnan Cultural Engagement and Learning Project involving 6 art centres in the Kimberley.
REVEALED WA Aboriginal Art Market

Revealed: WA Aboriginal Art Market welcomes buyers back

3 May 2023
Indigenous artists from across the State will showcase their talents as Western Australia's biggest Aboriginal art market takes over the Fremantle Arts Centre grounds this Saturday.
Painting done on Country drying by the fire. Ngurra Kutjuwarra (On Country, Together), Warlayirti Artists Aboriginal Corporation, 2021. Photo by Lucinda White.

Grants boost regional Aboriginal arts and culture sector

21 April 2023
Eight arts organisations from regional and remote Western Australia will benefit from a total of $238,374 in funding from the Aboriginal Business Development and Capacity Building program.

New funding program to support Aboriginal arts and culture sector

15 November 2022
A new funding program offering Aboriginal Business Development and Capacity Building Grants has opened to support the Indigenous arts and culture sector in Western Australia.
An Aboriginal artist performing on stage with a colourful background of illustrated water lillies.

Huge funding boost to deliver exciting new regional Aboriginal arts and cultural projects

21 July 2022
4 projects, ranging from an on-country camp in Wilkinkarra to create large scale visual artworks to a touring yellow bus that will demonstrate the Yindjibarndi people's enduring connection to country, have received a major funding boost from the State Government.
East Pilbara Arts Centre. Photo courtesy of the Shire of East Pilbara.

Landmark project to map Pilbara’s Aboriginal art movement

8 October 2020

Media release

A new landmark project will map the Pilbara Aboriginal art movement for the first time, providing insight into the development of the region's unique Aboriginal art, artists and art centres.

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