PS Art Space

Anita Phillips' last solo exhibition Clouds for Mountains is opening tomorrow Fri 1st May from 6.30pm at PS and will be open til Sun the 10th of May (Tue-Sun 10-4) @anitaphillipsstudio Clouds for Mountains is a body of work made in response to a storm front across the Cheela Plains in the Pilbara. Flooded roads confined her to camp, but from a nearby hilltop she painted and drew as weather moved across the landscape. The works focus on the vast Pilbara sky—dense cloud forms over red earth transformed by rain. The clouds become the central subject, holding both the scale of the landscape and the stillness of observation. For Phillips, they are “stories in themselves,” carrying the movement of weather and the experience of solitude in remote country.

YIELD is a dive into the messy, luminous heart of contemporary painting — a body of work that invites you into a charged emotional landscape where control and chaos wrestle openly on the canvas. These works emerged from a deep internal shift, exploring what happens when process is trusted over certainty, instinct over intellect, gesture over image. Tension moves through the paintings — between light and shadow, intention and disruption. Materials are allowed to lead, making space for accident, contradiction, and uncertainty. What emerges is a kind of emotional cartography: not of specific places or narratives, but of the internal weather systems we all move through. This work is not about answers or solutions. It asks for presence — for staying in the space of not knowing long enough for something true to surface. STEF RAE is a contemporary Boorloo/Perth painter working primarily in large-scale oil on canvas. Her practice is grounded in process and emotional honesty, unfolding through layered abstraction and automatic gesture. Emerging from a background in surreal and introspective painting, her recent work marks a shift in palette, form, and psychological presence. She works by leaning into uncertainty and contradiction, allowing the unresolved to remain active within the paintings as a site of transformation. Yield opens this Friday 17 April from 6.30pm and will be open 17 - 24 April. Tues to Sun, 10am - 4pm.

Opening Night this Friday! Melissa Sandy ‘The Void’ Feb 27th, 6:30pm PS Art Space, Walyalup/Fremantle Enjoy some sneak peak behind the scenes of this major exhibition whilst we are deep in install land! Artists’s Talk with Melissa & Allery Sandy, Sat Feb 28th, 10:30am - 12pm. Exhibition open until March 28th. Commissioned by Perth Festival as part of the Boorloo Contemporary Programme. @perthfest @ps.artspace

2 weeks until opening night! Melissa Sandy ‘The Void’ Feb 27th, 6:30pm. PS Art Space, Walyalup/Fremantle. Artists’ Talk with Allery & Melissa Sandy, Feb 28th 10:30am - 12pm. Commissioned by Perth Festival as part of the Boorloo Contemporary Programme. @perthfest @ps.artspace

We are very pleased to announce our new Studio 7 resident, James Jovanoski as part of our Studio 7 Residency Program for 2026. After a very rich year with @yasamin_khadembashi as our resident for 2025 and her incredible end of residency solo show 'Dreaming in Farsi', we are very excited to now welcome James at PS and wish him the best for the next 12 months. @james.jovanoski is a graphic designer and artist based in Walyalup. Experimenting with creative technology and the textures of his photography, he builds a visual language from the relics of his day-to-day. His practice at S7 will focus on the transition from digital collage into physical, multi-media storytelling. You can follow James' progress with monthly content posted on PS' website (psas.com.au)

Dreaming in Farsi has officially been open for 12 days now, and the love, engagement, conversations, and reactions have honestly blown me away. I know it might sound repetitive, but I truly could not have imagined a more meaningful first solo exhibition. I am endlessly grateful to @ps.artspace for putting their faith, trust, and support not only in me, but in my ability to tell stories that are so vital and urgent. As Iranians living in the diaspora, it has always felt like both a responsibility and a moral obligation to educate and to speak about the struggles and atrocities taking place in Iran. Especially now — as reports estimate that around 50,000 people have been massacred by the regime in just two to three days, with the true number likely far higher as reports continue to emerge despite the ongoing nation-wide internet and power blackout enforced by the regime — I believe it is our duty to be conduits and to amplify the voices that are being deliberately silenced and ignored by the international community. Dreaming in Farsi is a space for healing, catharsis, mourning, celebration, and resistance. It is dreaming of a world where we can return to Iran — where the wind can move freely through our hair, where I can return to my father’s village of Seyyedābād, where I can dip my feet into the Caspian Sea for the first time, where I can love openly and freely without fear of kidnapping, imprisonment, sexual assault, or death. This exhibition looks toward a future that is deeply uncertain and unstable — a moment where Iran sits on the precipice of either liberation, further violence through foreign intervention and the theft of its power and resources or it will be forgotten about all over again like all the times before. What I dream of is a free Iran — one that is safe for all Iranians, across all ethnicities, faiths, genders, sexualities and class. Thank you to everyone who has come through the exhibition, spoken with me, sat with the works, and left with an insight that perhaps wasn’t there before. My heart is so incredibly full ❤️‍🔥 📸 @adamkennaphoto ✨ #soloexhibition #emergingartist #contemporaryart #australianartist #iranianartist

A glimpse into the studio at @ps.artspace —process, thought, and the quiet moments where Dreaming in Farsi took shape. This exhibition holds the labour of love, sweat, blood and tears that have carried me here. I am beyond thrilled and deeply moved to share that Dreaming in Farsi opens this Friday at 6:30pm! 🫢🥹 Please make sure to book your free ticket via the TryBooking link in my bio! ────────────────────── This body of work is dedicated to the brave and fearless people of Iran, who are now in their 15th day of nationwide protests against the theocratic and barbaric Islamic Republic regime. I dedicate these works to the women, men, youth, and elders of Iran—who for 47 years have endured this oppressive system. I hold hope for freedom. I hold hope for a future illuminated by liberation and justice—for all oppressed peoples and nations. Video by the amazing Aaryn Bath @aarynrose ✨❤️‍🔥 #artstudio #emergingartist #exhibitionopening #dreaminginfarsi #iranianartist

31.1.26–> for the first cab home for the year we’re cruising into a puritanically LIVE event that skirts the edges of music you know, love and have never heard before. Over at CC HQ we are still pinching ourselves that the kernel of the eve should be Artificial (a.k.a Nicole Skeltys), an artist who has released across the temporal and aural plane. We’ve experienced her projects as feeling out liminal sounds; serenely staunch IDM, acidic boppers and tinkling jingles to have you twirling into the early morning. You may have crossed paths with her music under the guise of B(if)tek (with Kate Crawford), an essential staple of nineties & noughties Aus. It’s true that tweeny Circuit Central was raised on nothing but a Saturday morning bowl of cornflakes and an endless loop of Biffers on Rage. There’s too much to say about the special musicians who will be sewing the sonic quilt before Artificial. Lia T & Lyndon Blue will teach us new things about the viola, a presumed dubbed out exploration of Basic Mind with Clouds Come Rain, the syrupy hip shakers of Blood Knows, and a moment pouring one out for our favourite kind of surface with Dedicated Floor. As always, loving you all too much for gassing up these events- we’re taking a temporary pause from parties after this one so would love to give you all a big squeeze on the 31st @ PS. Link in bio for tix <3 🧩 by @studiovinciguerra (allegedly inspired by a nightmare cafe full of 808s)

As my time @ps.artspace slowly comes to an end, I’ve been reflecting on the ideas born out of this space. Dreaming In Farsi has been a project in continuous development - a body of work that has taken shape gently and deliberately over the past few years. Now, we’re standing at the precipice of finally sharing it with the public! I’m beyond thrilled and grateful to be opening the doors of PS Art Space on 16 January, welcoming you into the works, stories, and conversations that have grown here - fostering dialogue around the identities reflected throughout the exhibition✨ Photography by the amazing @aarynrose ❤️‍🔥 #dreaminginfarsi #emergingartist #contemporaryart #australianartist #iranianartist #visualartist #oilpaintings #impastopainting #psartspace #artpractice

First one of '26! Tone List presents a double bill of electro-acoustic experimental music buoyed by DJ sets by two of Boorloo's finest. Throughout the event try having a yuzu soda or prosecco alongside handmade veggie samosas & vegan patra by Khanna (Means Food) (@ministryofluv ). Jean-Philippe Gross (@jeanphilippe_gross ) is an electroacoustic musician based in France. He is a self-taught musician and an exceptional improviser on the no-input mixer (a mixing desk transformed into an instrument using feedback). Jean-Philippe's music is marked by its compositional precision, decisiveness, and attention to the grain of lengthy sustained drones and rapidfire textures alike. Jean-Philippe sustains collaborations with forward-thinking musicians globally including Clare Cooper, Jean-Luc Guionnet, and the orchestra ONCEIM. Contemplative, risky, frisson-inducing stuff. Rich Wh (@rich_wh ) is a local electronic musician working with a refined sound palette on modular synthesisers. In his music, chaotically interacting drones, pulses and crackles are sounded with a sense of veiled darkness. He performs and releases frequently in the orbit of Burnt Seed Records, NoizeMaschin!! and the Boorloo modular synthesis community. Morals and Ethics are the emergent DJ collaboration between indie scene mainstays Jameson Feakes @jlfeakes & Rhian Todhunter @rod__hunter (the former a Tone List founding member, the latter of outgoing Out to Lunch fame). Collagistic, pan-genre deep-diving and joyous intrigue. 6pm start at @ps.artspace . Tickets $25/$15/flexi via the link in our bio. You can also read more about the show and accessibility info on the ticketing page. Poster by @oli.svg . Our '25/'26 program is supported by @cits_wa . Jean-Philippe's visit happens with the support of Rise / La Muse en Circuit - Musica, and with the support of La Spedidam.

@yasamin_khadembashi 's Studio 7 residency is already coming to an end. Her exhibition 'Dreaming in Farsi' is opening next month on Friday Jan 16 in our main gallery space and run til Jan 30. We commend the amount of work and dedication Yasamin has put into her practice towards this end of residency project. It was truly great having her with us at PS this year. "I want to pause and celebrate the space where Dreaming In Farsi was created and slowly unfolded. These four walls have become my trusted cave - a place to step away from the chaos of life and simply be. To create, experiment, make a mess, fail, rinse and repeat. Showing up to the studio this year - again and again - has been essential. That presence shaped the work in ways I couldn’t have planned, allowing rich, multi-material and multilayered pieces to emerge, pushing the boundaries of painting to their limits. So much gratitude for the time, space and room to breathe - can’t wait to share this body of work with you all!" Photographs by @aarynrose

You are invited to our Mehmooni! ✨ Dreaming in Farsi ✨ by Yasamin Khadembashi Join us for a night filled with music, food, and drinks, and the debut of a new body of work developed over the year-long Studio 7 residency at PS. I’m so excited to finally share this work with you! This exhibition, and the work underpinning it, is a tribute to the people — and especially the women — of Iran, who continue to stand steadfast in their fight for liberation and an end to the regime in Iran. Beh Omid Azadi — In Hope of Freedom. Everyone is welcome — this event is free and open to the public. Come share in the music, the art, and the stories that connect us all. Bring your friends and family, and let’s celebrate creativity, resilience, and hope together. 🗓 Friday 16th January 🕡 Doors open at 6:30pm at PS Art Space 🕖 7pm Welcome to Country by Aunty Liz Hayden, then I’ll share a few words and thanks. ✨ RSVP via the link in my bio to let me know you’ll be coming!✨ Artwork Title: Don’t Act Suspicious / 2022 Exhibition poster by: @mamabymaya Digital Artwork Reproduction by: @lucidastudio This event is made possible with support from the City of Fremantle Grants Program. @cityoffremantle #exhibitionopening #emergingartist #australianartists #iranianartist #contemporaryartist