Mt Lawley Western Australia 6050
(09) 2716 459
http://www.emerge-art.com.au
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Emerge-Art-Space/151606848217955
Hours:
Wed-Sat 11:00 - 16:00
Emergence Art Space is a small commercial gallery that exhibits and sells contemporary Australian Art. Located in the heart of Mount Lawley, a few steps from almost any bar, café or restaurant in Beaufort's coffee strip, EAS is a microcosms of talent and good taste to be enjoyed by art lovers and posh art collectors. The gallery exhibits and represents a group of local painters and sculptors with different and distinctive styles.
The building might not catch you attention, but the pieces of art in their shop-window might do so. There are two main exhibition areas, the pretty one downstairs at street level with wooden floors and great lighting, really well curated, which holds the solo exhibitions, and the space upstairs and the long corridor, which isn't that glamorous or good, and showcases individual pieces by different artists not as wow as the ones downstairs.
Enter Emergence, don't be shy - the curator will welcome you and tell you a bit about the exhibition, even if your wallet is not big enough to purchase any of the pieces hanging from the wall. This is one of those places that, a-priori, you expect nosey people, and find welcoming warm art dealers with a good nose for talent.
The quality of the artworks exhibited in the main area is fantastic and varied, from abstract to figurative, surrealism to realism, conceptual art and anything in between, including Aboriginal Art, depending on the solo exhibition and artists featured each month.
Right now, when this review is written, there is a fantastic exhibition by Australo-French tin sculptor Pierre Capponi that made me wish badly to be a "poshie" of the world to buy something.
