For further information on any of the exhibitions and events, please contact the Rockingham Arts Centre on 9527 0734 between 8am-4pm, Monday to Friday (please note these days are subject to change at times). Information on other exhibitions and events can also be found on our What's On Calendar.

disPLACEment by Holly O'Meehan and Craig Duncan

• Exhibition dates: Wednesday 17 April to Sunday 5 May 2024 
• Opening times: 10am - 4pm, Wednesday to Sunday
• Location: Rockingham Arts Centre, 11 Kent Street, Rockingham  
• Room: Main gallery
• Cost: Free entry 
• Artist Talk: Saturday 27 April, 3pm - 4pm. Register for the Artist Talk

Holly O’Meehan and Craig Duncan come together to explore the concept of ‘disPLACEment’ through their own individual practices.

Holly O’Meehan

Inspired by the unique endemic flora and O’Meehan’s personal experience of growing up in the landscapes of the South West and the Great Southern regions of Western Australia, ‘disPLACEment’ explores the world’s largest parasitic plant, the Nuytsis floribunda or commonly known as the Christmas tree, and the speculation that one day this plant will evolve into benefiting from its greatest parasitic competitor; humans.

Workshop: Organic Vase Building - Sunday 21 April, 1pm to 4pm. Cost is $30 per person, bookings essential. Find out more

Craig Duncan

Our world is connected through roads. Sprawling networks of tarmac and steel that wind through nature. As our worlds grow more intertwined the more displaced animals become. For many driving through our fractured forests, the bodies on the roadside are unseen, rotting away as an unimportant by-product of modernisation.
Duncan’s new body of work confronts the impacts on native animals killed along roadways throughout the South West. By sensitively depicting the animals in staged positions he compels to viewer to consider the impacts we are having on the environment.

Workshop: Animal Photography - Saturday 27 April, 12pm to 3pm. Cost is $10 per person, bookings essential. Find out more

Craig Duncan, Mourning, 2022, gloss photo paper, 150 x 100 cm. Image credit: courtesy of the artist

Petite Amour by Rockingham Regional Arts Inc. 

• Exhibition dates: Friday 10 May to Sunday 19 May 2024 
• Opening times: 10am - 4pm, Wednesday to Sunday
• Location: Rockingham Arts Centre, 11 Kent Street, Rockingham  
• Room: Main gallery
• Cost: Free entry 

This exhibition showcases both 2D and 3D works from members of the Rockingham Regional Arts Inc.

About the group

Rockingham Regional Arts Inc. has been a part of the art community in Rockingham for 20 years and has 140 members. It promotes and facilitates visual, literary and master crafted arts.

Kim Taylor, Amy Swinehouse, 2023, pastels on paper, 30 x 30 cm. Image credit: courtesy of the artist

Rhizograph\Rhizogram by Hiroshi Kobayashi  

• Exhibition dates: Wednesday 22 May to Sunday 9 June 2024 
• Opening times: 10am - 4pm, Wednesday to Sunday
• Location: Rockingham Arts Centre, 11 Kent Street, Rockingham  
• Room: Main gallery
• Cost: Free entry 
• Opening Event: Saturday 25 May, 3pm - 5pm. Register for the Opening Event
• Artist Talk: Saturday 25 May, 2pm - 3pm. Register for the Artist Talk
• Workshop: Your Signature Here: Saturday 25 May, 11am - 2pm. More information

Hiroshi Kobayashi’s Rhizograph\Rhizogram is the third project in a series of unique machinery-produced paintings - a technique that he has been developing for the past five years. Following on from his previous explorations of Patagraph\Patagram (2021) and Qualiagraph\Qualiagram (2022), this new body of work continues to investigate the artist’s interest in the concept of time/duration and the perception of depth in digital painting. Through his self-designed equipment that marks out computerised paths for paint, or what Kobayashi endearingly refers to as Patagraphy, the artist combines old painting technology with new to create his own visual language that is meticulous in execution.

This project is supported by the State Government through the Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries.

About the artist

Hiroshi Kobayashi has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Tokyo University of the Arts (Japan) and a Masters of Fine Arts from Brooklyn College of The City University of New York (United States). In 2015 Kobayashi immigrated to Perth on a Distinguished Talent Visa. He has had artist studios at Fremantle Arts Centre and Artsource's Old Custom House. 

Hiroshi Kobayashi, The dragon's egg (detail), 2023, oil on canvas, 37 x 90.5 cm. Image credit: courtesy of the artist

Pro-JECTA: If Finds Could Talk by Sarah Robinson 

• Exhibition dates: Monday 27 May to Thursday 6 June 2024 
• Opening times: 10am - 4pm, Wednesday to Sunday
• Location: Rockingham Arts Centre, 11 Kent Street, Rockingham  
• Room: Multi-Purpose Room
• Cost: Free entry 
• Opening Event plus Artist Talk: Sunday 2 June, 1pm - 3pm. Register here.

The City’s inaugural Artist in Residence program has welcomed Dr Sarah Robinson into the studio with an amazing project that explores the City’s recent Peelhurst Ruins archaeological dig in Golden Bay. Driving past the ruins of Peelhurst regularly, Robinson has often pondered on the possible stories that lie beneath.

Robinson’s research-led practice has found her exploring historical items such as a shilling coin from the 1880s, a pearl button that could have links to Western Australia’s pearling industry, as well as various other items recovered from the site. The work in this show directly responds to these found items. Through woodcut, drawing and digital values she explores the possibility of un-settling settler narratives.

Sarah Robinson, Layers of Legacy, 2024, 1942 analogue aerial survey image and digital print on Hahnemühle, 30 x 50 cm. Image credit: Landgate/courtesy of the artist. Sarah Robinson, Holding History, 2024, studio work, life-size. Image credit: Ian Yendell/courtesy of the artist