Current Exhibitions

Sat 13 Jul - Fri 02 Aug 2019 'Curiouser and Curiouser' - Shana James

Shana James has been a practising artist in WA for 30 years and has been exploring the story of Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll since 2015. Her new exhibition 'Curiouser and Curiouser' has her most recent 'Alice' work in the front gallery, concerning the liminal space of Alice falling, and the back gallery has a selection of Alice artwork spanning the past five years - a mini retrospective of  previous Alice artwork, showing the development of her practice and associated ideas.

Future Exhibitions

Wed 07 Aug - Fri 30 Aug 2019 'HOLD ON' - Alex Maciver & Sam Bloor

Wed 16 Oct - Fri 08 Nov 2019 'Boundary turbulence' - Michelle Hyland (Gallery B)

Wed 16 Oct - Fri 08 Nov 2019 'Anthropocene' - Liam Dee (Gallery A)

Wed 13 Nov - Fri 06 Dec 2019 'Joint Solo Exhibitions' - Sue Leeming and Britt Mikkelsen (Gallery B)

Wed 13 Nov - Wed 04 Dec 2019 'A Party Hat for St. Denis' - Dr. Matthew Jackson (Gallery A)

An exhibition of paintings by Matthew Jackson examining identity through the narrative interplay between truth, memory and imagination. The title of this series of work speaks to this weirdly redundant endeavour. Saint Denis, famously beheaded before being beatified, is often depicted as a saint with his detached head carried in his own hands. Suggesting a party hat for Saint Denis is both inciting a sense of ridiculousness, but at the same time posing the question; why should such tragic figures not be celebrated?

Fri 15 May - Sat 06 Jun 2020 Mandorla Art Award 2020

Wed 17 Jun - Fri 03 Jul 2020 'Group Exhibition' - Studio Payoka Artists (Adam Hisham Ismail, William Leggett, Michele Ulrich & Scott Robson)

Past Exhibitions

Wed 12 Jun - Fri 05 Jul 2019 'In the Moment' - Chloe Tupper & Kathryn Haug

A joint solo exhibition of new work by Chloe Tupper and Kathryn Haug combining still life, landscape and portraiture. It is a must-see show!

Fri 07 Jun - Fri 07 Jun 2019 LIVE ART EVENT: Houndstooth v Creatives Collide

ONE NIGHT ONLY! Creatives Collide's Kaye Guthrie-Adonis comes together with respected canine photographer Alex Cearns OAM and10 of Perth's coolest contentemporary artists to live paint onto Alex's favourite pooch pics set on 1 x 1m canvases.

Thu 16 May - Tue 28 May 2019 'The Tin Heads' @ Spectrum Project Space, ECU in conjunction with STALA CONTEMPORARY - Ellen Norrish

STALA CONTEMPORARY proudly presents ‘The Tin Heads’ by Ellen Norrish at Spectrum Project Space, ECU. This is an exhibition celebrating an ever-growing collection of 10,000 tins owned by retirees Margaret and Robert Gaston. The couple display the tins in a large shed on their farm in Waggrakine, a suburb on the outskirts of Geraldton in Western Australia’s Mid West region. 

* 'The Tin Heads' body of work is now part of the  'Alternative Archive' exhibition on show at Geraldton Regional Art Gallery' 31 May - 20 July 2019 *

Wed 20 Mar - Sat 06 Apr 2019 'Bloom' - Wade Taylor

Bloom explores the relationship between painting and the film image, between personal memory and its connection with the histories of those who are strangers. Working from a long-ago acquired collection of Kodachrome film slides, Wade interprets images and worlds that he has had no direct experience with. Locations, subjects and time periods are unknown but through the process of painting the subjects take on a personal dimension, borrowing memories and elaborating, editing, and drawing out narrative. The work is a process of restoring life to forgotten histories.

Tue 11 Dec - Sat 12 Jan 2019 'WIP' (Work in Progress) - Group Exhibition (Image courtesy Ian Williams artist)

STALA CONTEMPORARY is proud to celebrate the opening of its new gallery premises with a celebratory group exhibition 'WIP (Work in Progress' running 11 -29 December 2018. Featuring an exuberant and eclectic assembly of 17 exceptional artists:

Adam Hisham Ismail/ Alex Maciver/ Anna Sabadini/ Anne Walmsley/ Ayad Alqaragholli/ Denise Pepper/ Di Cubitt/ Ellen Norrish/ Jarrad Martyn/ Kathryn Haug/ Kim Hyunji/ Liam Dee/ Marcia Espinosa/ Michelle Hyland/ Richard Healy/ Sue Leeming/ Wade Taylor

Affordable/Collectable Art from the West End Arts Precinct to you!

Image courtesy Ian Williams artist

Tue 13 Mar - Fri 23 Mar 2018 'reincarnation' - Group Exhibition

'reincarnation' is the first group exhibition to celebrate the launch of STALA CONTEMPORARY. Running TUESDAY 13 - Friday 23 March 'reincarnation' features a stellar line up of 13 diverse and dynamic contemporary artists from WA, Melbourne and Sydney,. STALA CONTEMPORARY is thrilled to be featuring painting, drawing and sculptures by Richard Healy (Sydney), Kim Hyunji (Melbourne), Kathryn Haug, Jarrad Martyn, Alex Maciver, Wade Taylor, Michelle Hyland, Di Cubitt, Ayad Alqaragholli, Marcia Espinosa, Anne Walmsley, Ellen Norrish and Adam Hisham Ismail.

Participating artists have been invited to exhibit new or recent works that respond to the theme of reincarnation.