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A memorable opening night for our final season of 2026! Three exhibitions exploring exchange, community and care through place-responsive and socially-engaged practice.⁠ Thank you to the PICA community who helped make opening night such a memorable celebration!⁠
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Explore ‘Circular Economies’ presented with SPACED, Shannon Lyons’ mid-career survey ‘Cafe coming soon’, and Jumana Manna’s film work ‘Foragers’.⁠
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Galleries are open, Tuesday – Sunday, 12–5pm⁠. Our exhibitions are always free!⁠
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PICA After Hours is supported by our Supporting Partners @smallthingswine, @margaretriverbeerco and @picabarperth. PICA’s events are made possible thanks to our Community Engagement Partner, City of Perth @cityofperth #cityofperth⁠
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Video: @liamayr_

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This past week I've had the honour of assisting the great Shannon Lyons install her mid-career survey show at PICA. Shannon is one of the greatest living artists, and it's been the absolute highlight of my install career to work for her.

'Cafe coming soon' opens tomorrow night. It is pure brilliance.

Thank you Shannon!

@shannon_lyons
@pica_perth

And thanks to @ruby.smedley for the photo

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Part of PICA's next season, 'Cafe coming soon' is a major mid-career survey exhibition of Western Australian artist Shannon Lyons. Presented in PICA’s West End Gallery, the exhibition will function as a radical visual compendium of Lyons’ career to date, featuring a series of large-scale sculptural installations that reflect on 20 years of Lyons’ site-responsive practice. ⁠
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Opening on Friday 16 October at PICA After Hours, 'Cafe coming soon' will run until Sunday 20 December. ⁠
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Learn more at pica.org.au, link in bio!⁠
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'Cafe coming soon' is made possible thanks to PICA’s Art Commissioners and is supported by Creative Australia through the Visual Art, Craft and Design Framework, an initiative of the Australian Government.⁠

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Happy spring from WFAC! We are happy to announce that trees and plants are greening across the grounds. Hayfever is at all-time high, but our spirits are even higher!!
We wish you a wonderful warm season with hot chips at the beach, good conversations on plastic lawn chairs, and as much art as you can fit in.
We are chipping away in preparation for our busiest time of year. We have new music, exhibitions, classes, events and more more more announcing soon ❤️

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#ArtbankNewAcquisitionAlert

Artbank is pleased to welcome works by Shannon Lyons to the collection.

Lyons' practice explores the complex relationships between people, place and history. Created using coffee, tea and pencil, these delicate works draw on the overlooked stories of Goolugatup Heathcote in Perth, a site with a layered past as a former mental health facility. Through subtle monochromatic imagery and poetic references to remedies such as Calm Mind and Revitalise, Lyons reflects on themes of care, memory and healing.

Now part of the Artbank collection, 'Moral Injury II,' 'Things went on II,' 'Things went on III' and 'Anhedonia (bottomless cup)' showcase the artist's thoughtful approach to uncovering the histories embedded within a place.

See these new acquisitions in 'Shuffle,' on display now at Artbank Melbourne.

📍 Artbank Melbourne, Collingwood
📅 17 September – 30 October 2026

Shannon Lyons
Moral injury II, 2023
Instant coffee, Lipton ‘Black Tea’, Roogenic ‘Native Relaxation’, T2 ‘The Quiet Mind’, Tetley ‘Extra Strong’ and pencil on Arches paper

Shannon Lyons
Things went on II, 2023
Instant coffee, Mood ‘Be Kind, Unwind’, Mood ‘Get On Up’, Pat’s Apothecary ‘Coffee + Shrooms’, Twinings ‘English Breakfast’ and pencil on Arches paper

Shannon Lyons
Things went on III, 2023
Instant coffee, Pat’s Apothecary ‘Calm Mind’, Pat’s Apothecary ‘Coffee + Shrooms’, Pukka ‘Revitalise’, Taylors of Harrogate ‘Yorkshire Tea’ and pencil on Arches paper

Shannon Lyons
Anhedonia (bottomless cup), 2023
Instant coffee, Dilmar ‘Extra Strong’, Pat’s Apothecary ‘Calm Mind’, Pat’s Apothecary ‘Coffee + Shrooms’, Pukka ‘Revitalise’ and pencil on Arches paper

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Artbank Melbourne invites you to join us in celebrating the opening of 'Shuffle' on Thursday 24 September, 5:00-7:00pm. Read more and RSVP via the link in our bio.

In its initial format, 'Shuffle' highlights a selection of acquisitions made over the past twelve months. As these works lease, they will be replaced – or shuffled – with older pieces from our collection, presenting the exhibition in a perpetually changing form.

By bringing new art into dialogue with the old, 'Shuffle' highlights the diversity of materials, breadth of practice, and artistic voices that comprise our ever-moving collection.

'Shuffle' continues until 30 October. Artbank Melbourne is open Tues-Fri, 10:00am-4:00pm.

Artist list (first iteration)
Gene A'Hern, Jacobus Capone, Hayley Panangka Coulthard, Sean Crowley, Mikala Dwyer, Amelia Gill, Dianne Ungukalpi Golding, Ryan Hancock, Joshua Harvey, Anna Higgins, Visaya Hoffie, Kez Hughes, Lucina Lane, Shannon Lyons, Tessa MacKay, Sam Martin, Ruth O'Leary, Madeleine Peters, Tom Phillips, Nina Radonja, Aisha Sherman-Noth, Armie Sungvaribud, Anne Nginyangka Thompson, Marian Tubbs, Alex Walker, Roy Yaltjanki, Simon Zoric

Exhibition digital asset design by Yongyi Zhu @yy.tomato21

#Artbank #AustralianArt

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Thank you, Craft Victoria!

A wonderful visit from the Craft Victoria team and participants from the 'Fresh! Fellowship 2026' program

It's always a pleasure to connect with organisations that champion Australian artists and makers, and we look forward to future collaborations.

Pictured here with works from our upcoming exhibition 'Shuffle,' featuring new acquisitions by Shannon Lyons, Things Went On III and Anhedonia (Bottomless Cup), Dianne Ungukalpi Golding, Walu Rockhole Dreaming, Emu Heart, The Boy Who Turned into Wind, and Sam Martin, Acclimating.

#CraftVictoria #Artbank #AustralianArt #ContemporaryCraft #SupportAustralianArtists #CreativeCommunity

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Excited to see my products featured in a Melbourne art exhibition! Check out the Rest time exhibition by @lauraelizabethcouttie at @bundoorahomestead and look out for artist @shannon_lyons' incredible artworks, which feature my Calm Mind and Coffee & Shrooms products - so cool! On til Saturday. Support local art and this amazing free art gallery 🫖

#PatsApothecary #MushroomCoffee #coffeeandshrooms #calmmind #bundoorahomestead

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Merry Christmas you filthy animals, from your next-door-neighbour arts administrators ❤️ The joy of our jobs is sharing and enjoying art with you. Thank you for showing up to the exhibitions, the music, the classes, the markets, to @wfac_shop and @platedwfac - you are why we come to work. Thank u, thank u!!
We are closed Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Years Day. We will miss you, go well this week, and we can’t wait to see you in the new year ❤️

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We ❤️ Shannon Lyons⁠
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𝘓𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘤𝘳𝘰𝘸𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘳𝘰𝘰𝘮⁠
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Decommissioned carpet tiles, diminishing strip, tapes, pine, ‘Estilo’ acrylic bathtub, seven houseplants (Ctenanthe setosa, Hoya carnosa compacta, Zamioculcas zamiifolia, Ficus elastica ‘Melany’, Kalanchoe blossfeldiana, and Rhipsalis cereuscla)⁠
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shannonlyons.net @shannon_lyons #artoftheday

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My hand-knitted work Self Care Action is currently on show in ‘Rest time’ a curatorial project by @laurelizabethcouttie

Rest time is an exhibition that offers space for slowing down, positioning rest as a meaningful and constructive form of resistance.
The exhibition emerged as a response to the capitalist, patriarchal, colonial and ableist systems that equate human worth with productivity.
Against a backdrop of burnout in response to the constant drive for progress and production, the artists in this exhibition embrace slow approaches to making and experiencing art as both an act of defiance and of self-preservation.

The exhibition aims to pose questions such as: what happens when we reject grind culture and choose to ‘fill our cup’ instead? And how can slow approaches to art production and presentation - grounded in mindfulness, collaboration and exchange - help us imagine new ways of living, working and creating?
- Laura Couttie

‘Rest time’ continues at Bundoora
Homestead Art Centre until 14 February 2026.

Featuring:
Jingwei Bu @jingwei_bu
Emma Buswell @embuzza1
Kate Just @katejustknits
Shannon Lyons @shannon_lyons
Dhana Merritt @dhanamerritt
Photos by James Henry
@bundoorahomestead #bundoorahomesteadartcentre
#resttime

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I’m honoured to have my Self Care Action series included in the new exhibition ‘Rest time’ curated by @lauraelizabethcouttie

The exhibition opens next Saturday 11 October at Bundoora Homestead Art Centre from @4-6.30pm and you are invited 🚗 🖼️

Rest time is an exhibition that offers space for slowing down, positioning rest as a meaningful and constructive form of resistance.

The exhibition emerges as a response to the capitalist, patriarchal, colonial and ableist systems that equate human worth with productivity. Against a backdrop of burnout in response to the constant drive for progress and production, the artists in this exhibition embrace slow approaches to making and experiencing art as both an act of defiance and of self-preservation.

The exhibition features 5 artists:
Jingwei Bu @jingwei_bu
Emma Buswell @embuzza1
Kate Just @katejustknits
Shannon Lyons @shannon_lyons
Dhana Merritt @dhanamerritt

Please join the opening celebration on Saturday, 4:00-6:30pm

+ During the opening, Jingwei Bu will perform and Dhana Merritt will activate a work.

+ Visit the Bundoora Homestead website for more info about free public programs through the exhibition including a knitting circle I’ll conduct on 8 November.

https://arts.darebin.vic.gov.au/Whats-on/Event-calendar/Kate-Just-Knitting-Circle

@bundoorahomestead @darebincouncil @darebin_arts

Image: Kate Just, Self Care Action Series (Rest), 2023, hand knitted acrylic yarn, canvas, timber, 55 x 40 cm. Photo by Simon Strong. Courtesy the artist and @hugomichellgallery.

Special shout out to champion @s.amgol.d for driving half my work from Adelaide to Melb and @lauraelizabethcouttie for doing a country drive up for the other half! ❤️🥰

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