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 
• Opening Event: Thursday 18 April, 6pm - 8pm. Register for the Opening Event
• 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: 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 

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.

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