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Threaded Perspectives

Threaded Perspectives
Monday 15 April – Saturday 20 July
Joondalup Library

Threaded Perspectives is a temporary art exhibition being held at Joondalup Library. The event is part of a series of never-before-seen exhibitions that feature works from the City of Joondalup Art Collection, commemorating Joondalup’s 25-year anniversary as a local government. This special milestone program celebrates the diversity of the City’s Art Collection, showcasing its unique identity and make-up of Western Australian artists, and providing an insight into the immeasurable cultural value it holds.

William Leggett, Module Exo 3 (A Knowledge of Gravity), 2022. City of Joondalup Art Collection.

Image credit: William Leggett, Module Exo 3 (A Knowledge of Gravity), 2022. City of Joondalup Art Collection.

About the exhibition

Within the span of 25 years, three major themes – or threads – have emerged within the City of Joondalup Art Collection. These are ‘suburbia and the Northern Corridor’, ‘materiality and form’, and ‘interpretations of landscape’. For the first time, Threaded Perspectives brings together a selection of highlights from the collection, offering a unique insight and exploration of these themes.

Reflecting on the history and geography of the Joondalup region, it is evident to see how these themes have developed prominently within the collection. Rapid and expansive suburban growth since 1998 has had significant impact on artists that engage with Joondalup and similar high growth areas within the Perth metropolitan region. These artists are keen observers of everyday experiences of suburbia, often drawing upon local suburban aesthetics or playful moments they stumble upon.

Similarly, artists have often been intrigued with the City’s breadth of natural environments, with the region boasting landscapes as diverse as wetlands, coastline, and bushland. Some artists dive deep into a specific place and their relation to it, while other artists channel their ongoing engagement with landscape and its presence into works that speak more broadly about their feeling and connection to place.

Artworks that engage with ideas of materiality and form have risen steadily over the Collection’s lifespan, with most acquired through the City’s annual Invitation Art Prize and possibly symptomatic of a broader trend among Western Australian contemporary artists. Central to these works is a sharp awareness of the artists’ chosen media’s materiality and how it can be manipulated, stretched, pulled, or corrupted to create an artwork. These works are often characterised by a sense of material play, unexpected moments, and questions of “how did they do that?”.

A central role of the artist is to observe and consume the world around them, filter it through their own experiences and generate an artistic outcome that offers a compelling interpretation of their interests. Threaded Perspectives highlights the different approaches artists take from similar departure points, offering reflections on varied experiences and providing viewers a chance to look at the world through different lenses, enrichening their own perception of suburbia, landscape, and materiality.

Large Composition with Brick Fragment by Ron Nyisztor

Image credit: Ron Nyisztor, Large Composition with Brick Fragment, 2010. City of Joondalup Art Collection.

About the City of Joondalup Art Collection

The City’s Art Collection was formed with the inception of the City in 1998, with Joondalup inheriting the contemporary artworks from the City of Wanneroo’s Art Collection. With a primary focus on the work of Western Australian contemporary artists, the Collection includes sculpture, drawings, paintings, print works, textiles, ceramics, glass work, video, photography, and installation. Along with standard collecting avenues, acquisitions are actively informed through the City’s annual exhibitions, including the $25,000 Invitation Art Prize, as well as a biennial $20,000 Visual Arts Commission. The Art Collection today is comprised of over 290 artworks and worth over $1.2million.

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Header image features ‘Sky Piece 2, wet (Melbourne, Helsinki), November 2020 – March 2021’, by Teelah George.

New Inside-Out Billboard installed

The exterior of the Joondalup Library has undergone a transformation in recent weeks, starting with the installation of the stunning new Inside-Out billboard on Boas Ave. The artwork entitled Still Life on my Studio Table was created by Katie Gordon, winner of the Inside-Out Billboard Commission in 2023, which was awarded through the 2023 Community Art Exhibition.

About the Artwork

Katie’s subject is a quotidian moment of serenity – a shell, a vase and a banksia branch. It is one that could easily be overlooked and yet is soothing in its simplicity and familiarity. Each item of ordinary beauty is rendered in warm tones that reflect the surrounding Joondalup buildings and bushland. Bathed in balmy sunshine filtering through the window blinds, and casting long and striking shadows, the scene offers a meditative moment for a public busily engaged in their daily lives.

The presented work at the Inside-Out Billboard site is a digital print of Gordon’s original acrylic painting on carved wood. In considering the billboard site, she says, “I have chosen to create an image that is dynamic and easily recognizable, and able to be understood and appreciated quickly in passing. My intention is for the billboard to be visually soothing by conveying a fleeting moment of stillness and serenity amidst the busyness of the everyday.”

Image credit: Still Life on my Studio Table, Katie Gordon, 2023. Installation view, City of Joondalup Inside-Out Billboard program. Photo: Aaron Claringbold.

 

Applications open for Arts Development Scheme

Performing artists and arts lovers will get a $50,000 boost from the City of Joondalup’s launch of its increased Arts Development Scheme.

The scheme will provide monetary support for artists and arts organisations to deliver a performing arts project for local audiences and is designed to bolster the performing arts sector in Perth’s northern city.

This year the funding pool has been increased from $10,000 to $50,000, providing a significant opportunity to entice a range of high-quality and diverse performances to the Joondalup region.

Joondalup Mayor Albert Jacob said the Arts Development Scheme cements the City of Joondalup’s reputation as Perth’s northern home of the arts.

“This scheme continues the momentum of the viral fame of Joondalup Festival earlier this year,” Mayor Jacob said.

“We’re incredibly proud of the vibrant offering of cultural events we put on each year, including Music in the Park, the Valentine’s Concert and of course our premier arts event, Joondalup Festival.

“With this year being our celebration of the City’s 25 years, I am excited to see us mark the occasion with a range of bold, creative and diverse performances that activate spaces and create impactful engagement opportunities for our local community.”

Applications for the Arts Development Scheme are open until Sunday 3 September. Visit joondalup.wa.gov.au for more information and to apply.

Invitation Art Prize looks back on 25 years of WA talent

The City of Joondalup’s Invitation Art Prize (IAP) celebrates its silver jubilee this year, sharing the impressive milestone with the local government itself having launched in the City’s inaugural year.

Exhibiting this October, the prestigious acquisitive art prize will look different in 2023. Instead of brand-new artworks, for the first time the IAP will feature each year’s winning artwork since the prize’s inception in 1998.

The retrospective exhibition will feature winning artworks by artists of prominence including Erin Coates, Teelah George, Kate McMillan and Brendan van Hek, alongside renowned Indigenous artists Shane Pickett and Mandy White.

Viewers will get another opportunity to see last year’s winning artwork, a beaded roast chook bag by artist Emma Buswell that went viral on social media across the country.

Buswell has since followed up her original winning creation with the controversial Vegemite basted version of the supermarket classic.

Joondalup Mayor Albert Jacob said the IAP provides a moment to reflect on the changes to WA contemporary art over the last quarter century.

“Over the past 25 years, the IAP has showcased artworks by 732 artists from across the state, many who are now recognised on a national and even international level,” Mayor Jacob said.

“In this year’s retrospective iteration of the IAP, we proudly look back at the winning artworks, celebrating both the evolution of this prestigious prize and of WA’s contemporary art offering.”

The Invitation Art Prize: 25 Year Retrospective will be on public display at Westfield Whitford City from Monday 2 October – Saturday 21 October during shopping centre opening hours.

Full list of exhibiting artists:

Nicole Andrijevic, Graeme Burge, Emma Buswell, Susanna Castleden, Erin Coates, Trevor Bly and Patrick Doherty, Ellhan Eshraghian-Haakansson, Teelah George, Lee Harrop, Paul Hinchcliffe, Bevan Honey, Paul Kaptein, Richie Kuhaupt, Jarrad Martyn, Kate McMillan, Mark Parfitt, Concetta Petrillo, Meeyakba Shane Pickett, Trevor Richards, Susan Roux, Jon Tarry, Brendan van Hek, and Lynette Voevodin and Rodney Glick.

Public Art Masterplan Consultation

The City acknowledges the important role played by public art in creating a vibrant and appealing place to live, work and visit. Public art shapes and develops a sense of community and identity, contributing to our understanding and appreciation of our cultural and natural heritage, enhancing our built environment, and creating more meaningful public spaces. The City’s Public Art collection has been acquired since 1998 and includes over 20 artworks.

Setting the Vision for New Public Art

The City is currently undertaking consultation to develop a new Public Art Strategy and Masterplan.

This Masterplan will define the vision for Public Art in the City and help guide resources and funding towards future projects. Such projects aim to enhance the City’s significant Indigenous sites, built environment, distinctive natural assets, historic locations and key destinations. The Masterplan will also provide a guiding framework for all new commissions, ensuring that Joondalup’s Public Art collection creates a sense of place, promotes the expression of local identity, and reflects on the shared values and needs of the community.

Community Consultation Surveys and Workshops

The City sought community feedback in August 2023 to set the direction for the Public Art Masterplan. The survey received phenomenally high engagement, with more than 200 responses received. The results of the survey are currently being collated, along with findings from various community workshops and pop-ups.

Further information and next steps for the Public Art Masterplan will be shared shortly. To stay in the loop, subscribe to the City’s Arts in Focus eNewsletter.

Banner image: Bridget Norton, Untitled, 2009, digital print on acrylic. Craigie Leisure Centre, Craigie. 

Little Feet Festival

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Invitation Art Prize

Image: ‘Creatures of the Crystal Caves‘ (detail) by Mandy White. Winner of the 2021 Invitation Art Prize.

The Invitation Art Prize is a major acquisitive award for West Australian professional artists with winning artworks acquired into the City’s contemporary art collection.

The program is on pause in 2024 while a review is being undertaken. Please visit this page again in October 2024 for updates or subscribe to the monthly Arts in Focus eNewsletter.

The 2023 Invitation Art Prize celebrated its 25-year milestone with a never-before-seen retrospective edition. Presented at Westfield Whitford City, it featured the winning artwork from each year of the award. Exploring diverse art forms and trends in Australian art practice, the 2023 Invitation Art Prize found connections across its 25-year history, proudly looking back at the evolution of this prestigious prize and contemporary art in WA.

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Inside Out Billboard Commission

Congratulations to Erin Coates, the winner of the Inside Out Billboard Commission, with her artwork Microeconomics (paradise spent). Using imagery from international coinage, including human figures, animals, plants and elements of landscape architecture, Coates recreated the centre panel of Hieronymus Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights, presenting a subversive take on nationalism, wealth and greed. Erin will be awarded $3,000 to create a new artwork that will be displayed outside the Joondalup Library in 2024. 

Winner of the Inside Out Billboard Commission, Erin Coates, in front of her winning artwork ‘Microeconomics (paradise spent)’. Photo: Becky Felstead – Soco Studios.

Popular Choice Award

Congratulations to Richie Kuhaupt who has been awarded $500 after receiving the most votes in the Popular Choice Award for his eye-catching sculpture, Woman in Red.

Winner of the Popular Choice Award, ‘Woman in Red’ by Richie Kuhaupt. Winner of the 2000 Invitation Art Prize. Photo: Christophe Canato.

Keep Up To Date

The Invitation Art Prize has impacted the careers of over 700 exhibiting artists in its history. It continues to support the agency of contemporary artists working across different practices, career stages and lived experiences. To be informed of upcoming artist callouts and information about future exhibitions, please subscribe to the City’s monthly Arts in Focus eNewsletter.

Acknowledgements

The City of Joondalup wishes to thank all the artists who contributed to the history of the Invitation Art Prize, as well as all those who have attended the exhibitions over the years.

Thank you to Westfield Whitford City, Exhibition Venue Partner for the Invitation Art Prize: 25 Year Retrospective.

Inside-Out Billboard Project

Image: Still Life on my Studio Table, 2023, by Katie Gordon. Artwork photo by FoxLab Fine Art. Installation photo by Aaron Claringbold.

The Inside-Out Billboard Project is a commission program for West Australian visual artists to create a large outdoor billboard at Joondalup Library and Joondalup Courthouse. The project offers artists an opportunity to play with scale and site, and consider how their practice may translate into a large-scale digital print in the public realm.

Artists are invited to the commission by exhibiting in one of the City’s annual art awards, the Community Art Exhibition (held in June) and the Invitation Art Prize (held in October).

The Inside Out Billboard Project aims to add vibrancy to the City Centre, providing a chance for the community to discover new artworks by West Australian artists.

The latest artworks on display are: Still Life on my Studio Table, 2023, by Katie Gordon at the Joondalup Library; and Lake Joondalup, 2021 by Naomi Grant at the Joondalup Courthouse.

New Commission at Joondalup Library

Image: Still Life on my Studio Table, 2023, by Katie Gordon. Artwork photo by FoxLab Fine Art.

Katie Gordon’s artworks aim to elevate the everyday, and her latest work Still Life on my Studio Table takes the intimate, small and familiar – in this case the items bathed in light on her studio table – and places them into the context of the exposed, large and foreign – the 6 x 3 metre billboard outside Joondalup Library.

Gordon’s subject is a quotidian moment of serenity – a shell, a vase, and a banksia branch. It is one that could easily be overlooked, and yet is soothing in its simplicity and familiarity. Each item of ordinary beauty is rendered in warm tones that reflect the surrounding Joondalup buildings and bushland. Bathed in balmy sunshine filtering through the window blinds, and casting long and striking shadows, the scene offers a meditative moment for a public busily engaged in their daily lives.

Gordon began this artwork by arranging a photographic composition, utilizing light and shadow as a key element of the design. After a selection and editing process, she then started a drawing process to translate the photograph. Key outlines of the design were drawn onto plywood and etched out using a powered rotary instrument, before larger infill areas of shadow were hand-carved away using linoleum cutting tools. The result is a form of relief carving that provides subtle depth to the artwork and further exposes the texture of the wood grain. Gordon completed the work with a painted layer via an interpretative process, rather than holding fast to the reality of the photograph.

The presented work at the Inside-Out Billboard site is a digital print of Gordon’s original acrylic painting on carved wood. In considering the billboard site she says, “I have chosen to create an image that is dynamic and easily recognizable, and able to be understood and appreciated quickly in passing. My intention is for the billboard to be visually soothing by conveying a fleeting moment of stillness and serenity amidst the busyness of the everyday.”

In this subtle way, Still Life on my Studio Table is an anti-hype invitation to simply notice the significance of the present. Regardless of how mundane, Gordon asks viewers to look at the old in new ways, with heightened sensitivity that life is here, right now, and not elsewhere.

Gordon has created this 18th Inside-Out Billboard commission, which was awarded through the 2023 Community Art Exhibition, and will be on display from Saturday 17 February 2024 – Saturday 22 February 2025.

About the Artist

Born in 1989, Katie Gordon spent her formative years living in Zimbabwe, before immigrating to Perth in 2001. Her dual strengths in both art and math, saw Katie study theatre design at the West Australian Academy of Performing Arts, before going on to graduate with a Bachelor of Business from Edith Cowan University in 2012.

Following 3 years working as an accountant, Katie began creating art in earnest again in 2016. Working mostly in coloured pencil and depicting flowers from her garden in hyper-realistic detail, Katie began to exhibit and sell her work locally. Alongside her art practice, Katie worked as gallery coordinator at the Joondalup Art Gallery before the birth of her son in late 2018.

Recently, the subject matter of Katie’s work has expanded to include portraits and landscapes alongside still-life and interior depictions of her immediate home environment. Katie particularly enjoys juxtaposing natural and human-made objects of familiar beauty into visually dynamic arrangements. She photographs these from varying angles to capture fleeting shadows as a key element of the composition. The most impacting images are edited and then either delicately rendered into photorealist drawings or carved onto plywood and painted in a looser and more graphic style.

Katie has regularly participated in the City of Joondalup’s Community Art Exhibition, winning the Celebrating Joondalup Award in 2022 and the Inside-Out Billboard Commission in 2023.

Rotated Commission at Joondalup Courthouse

Image: Lake Joondalup, 2021, Naomi Grant.

Naomi Grant is a contemporary indigenous artist and was the 14th artist commissioned to produce an artwork for display as part of the Inside-Out Billboard project. Lake Joondalup is based on a setting at Picnic Cove. For this commission, Grant explored her interests in the landscapes and waterscapes of Australia. Her intention was to capture the beauty, tranquility and regeneration of the lake that so many people, animals and plants rely on. With a background in textiles, Grant often relays the beauty, pattern and colour she sees in the environment and creates her artwork by painting in acrylic and incorporating collage, layering coloured tissue paper over the painted surface. Grant was selected for the commission through the City’s 2020 Invitation Art Prize.

About the Artist

Naomi Grant is a descendant of the Wiradjuri people of central New South Wales and was born in Sydney. She previously lived in Perth and now resides in Queensland. Her successful career as a practicing artist and designer spans the past 40 years, including a Bachelor of Art in Design from W.A.I.T. (now Curtin University).

Grant’s works are held in private and public collections in Australia and overseas, including Bunbury Regional Art Gallery, Tourism Australia, Oxfam Australia and Ronald McDonald House. Her many awards include the inaugural Hawkesbury Art Award in Sydney, as well as awards and purchases from City of Belmont, City of Bayswater, City of Midland, Town of Victoria Park, and City of Blacktown in New South Wales.

Inside-Out Billboard Commissions

Public Art: Inside-Out Billboard City of Joondalup Library

The Inside-Out Billboard artwork is commissioned for the site and changes bi-annually.

Artists are invited to participate following recommendations from the judges at the annual Community Art Exhibition and the Art Prize.

The printed canvas is 6 x 3 metres and is back-lit at night.

The artwork is installed again at the City Courthouse after a period of 18 months in storage.

 

Arts Development Scheme

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Apply for up to $50,000 to deliver a performing arts project within the City

City of Joondalup is committed to providing a vibrant offering of cultural events each year, including a diverse array of performances, concerts, festivals, art exhibitions and community events.

The City’s Arts Development Scheme is designed to bolster the performing arts sector in the region by providing monetary support for artists and arts organisations to deliver a performing arts project for local audiences. The Arts Development Scheme also allows professional performing arts organisations to expand their audience into the northern metropolitan area of Perth.

In exciting news, the 2023 funding pool has been increased to $50,000, providing a significant opportunity to bring a range of high-quality and diverse performances to the Joondalup region for local audiences to experience.

Applications for this year’s funding round are open on Monday 7 August – Sunday 3 September.

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Pictured: A Noongar dance group preparing to perform a traditional woman’s dance on Mooro Country at Meeukang Warrangka ba Kenniny, the opening event for Joondalup Festival 2023.

Mural Arts Program


Image: Artists Sam Bloor (L) and Trevor Bly (R) at work making “Heathridge”, 2022 at Admiral Park, as part of the City of Joondalup’s Mural Arts program. Photo: Shot by Thom. 

City of Joondalup Mural Programs

The City’s Mural Arts Program features a range of mural styles that reflect the diversity of the local community, region and identity of Joondalup. It also provides community access to high-quality mural arts for place-making, education and appreciation purposes. 

 The City commissions murals through two program streams: 

  • Artist-driven mural programs, whereby an artist is commissioned to install a mural in reference to the location and the surrounding community. This is through a curated shortlisting process or a public expression of interest. 
  • Community-driven murals engaging the community through programs such as the City’s Schools Connections Program in the design and installation of the mural. 

The City has over 20 active murals across City buildings, community centres and public outdoor locations. Previous commissioned artists include Amok Island, Horatio T. Birdbath, Hayley Welsh, Jon Ismailovski, Sara Winfield, Mike Bramford, Emma Margetts, Elizabeth Maruffo, David Ledger, Trevor Bly and Fraser Greg, Anya Brock, Andrew Fraser, Peter Ryan, Kyle Hughes Odgers, Jeremy Lane, Kerise Delcoure, Esty Nagy, Jack Bromell, Darren Hutchens and Trevor Bly and Sam Bloor. 

Featured Murals

Community Sporting Facility, Admiral Park, Heathridge
“Heathridge”, 2022, Trevor Bly & Sam Bloor (pictured) 


Photo: Christophe Canato 

This mural investigates the suburban narrative and how the mechanics of suburbia create places rather than spaces. As a resident of Joondalup, living in Craigie, Trevor Bly explores the links between place-making and the activation of urban buildings and how this impacts our understanding of the suburbs, identity and home. 

Bly and fellow artist, Sam Bloor, have depicted local observations of suburban life, observed by the artists during weekend visits to the oval, and how it is activated with families watching local community sports. The artists have incorporated three design features into this work: the use of suburban iconography (the chair), place-making through text (Heathridge) and a sports drill element (the bullseye game). These three features highlight the Heathridge neighbourhood and how leisure and sport is valued in this community. 

Falklands Park, Kinross
“Edges”, 2021, by Darren Hutchens 2021 (pictured) 


A response to the idea of “the edge” and surrounding landscapes, flora and fauna, this mural was inspired by a collaboration with kids from The Edge Youth Centre. The mural explores the edges around us, the places we inhabit and the boundaries we place on the natural world. The distant horizon, the sun and sky, waves breaking on the shoreline, rocky outcrops, sand dunes and the coastal highway form the composition of the mural. Contours of the land and surrounding lake systems are overlapped with stylised depictions of endemic bird and plant species such as Balga, Banksia, Zamia, Grevillea and Kangaroo Paw. 

Central Park Toilet Block, Joondalup
“Rhythm of the Lake”, 2021, by Jack Bromell (pictured) 


This mural is a striking homage to the beauty of the natural environment within the City of Joondalup. The artist’s choice of royal blue as the dominant colour of the work represents both water and sky. Over this vibrant background appears illustrations of various leaves and flowers from native local plant species, including Eucalyptus recipients, Melaleuca preissiana and Eucalyptus todtiana. Native bird species also feature, including Eastern Great Egrets and the White-faced Heron, two prominent, native water birds, and two Tree Martin Swallows, one perched and one in flight. 

POPP Tables 

Neil Hawkins Park, Joondalup
“Flight of the Black Cockatoo”, 2020, by Karise Delcoure 

Picnic Cove, Edgewater
“Carnaby’s Wa-ee-lah Song”, 2020, by Karise Delcoure 

Geneff Park, Sorrento
“Rain Bird”, 2020, by Karise Delcoure (pictured) 


These murals feature birds and plants native to Western Australia whilst also celebrating the landscape, energy, and movement in each of these very active community spaces. The birds are captured in a movement of flight to reflect the movement and energy of the ping pong games. Repeated patterns, reflecting shapes from the local landscapes and weather patterns, are also incorporated into each of the mural designs. 

The ‘hero’ of each mural is the Carnaby’s Black Cockatoo, which is an endangered, protected and much-loved bird in Western Australia. The artist’s inclusion of the Carnaby’s Black Cockatoo is particularly relevant in the wake of Australia’s devastating bushfires in early 2020. The bushfires at Yanchep during this time destroyed the nesting and feeding grounds of a large colony, putting the species at further risk. The series also features banksias which are a source of food for the Carnaby’s Black Cockatoos. 

Marmion Anglican Aquatic Centre (MAAC) Car Park, Sorrento
“Marine Life of Marmion Marine Park”, 2016, by Amok Island (pictured) 


This mural depicts a selection of iconic marine fauna found in the Marmion Marine Park area from invertebrates, crustaceans and molluscs, fish and marine mammals. The artist conducted extensive research, including spending time in Marmion Marine Park photographing marine creatures and drew inspiration from vintage scientific identification charts in the creation of the design. 

Eddystone Underpass, Heathridge
“Untitled”, 2013 by Jon Ismailovski (pictured) 

Ismailovski’s 40-metre-long mural combines fish and fowl, flora and fauna, in monochromatic tone as though Hieronymus Bosch was designing a set for the Wiggles on black and white TV. A hybrid mix of creatures all co-habit in the strange world of Ismailovski’s mural, which addresses the hierarchy of humans and animals, and playfully undermines the control that humans have in this world.  

To receive information about the Mural Arts Program and future callouts, sign up for the Arts in focus eNewsletter. 

For further information please email visualarts@joondalup.wa.gov.au or call 9400 4000. 

Celebrating Joondalup

The City of Joondalup invites local schools to participate in its annual art competition, Celebrating Joondalup School Art Competition. Prizes are awarded to the winning artist, their school and the runners up.

Student outcomes

  • This is an opportunity to meet some of the requirements of the Arts curriculum while learning about Local Government and community.
  • The competition offers the chance to exhibit to the whole school and the wider community.

2024 Get involved

Individual students, partners, or groups can contribute to the designs.

One artwork will be selected as the winner of the Celebrating Joondalup competition and will be used to represent the City of Joondalup in the annual Showcase in Pixels competition.

The artwork will be on display in Yagan Square in September 2024 along with entries from Local Governments across Western Australia.

Registrations for the 2024 competition are now open. Contact the School Liaison Officer to register your interest.

Keep up to date on what the City has available for schools and subscribe to the School Connections eNewsletter.

2023 Award Winners

The 2023 Celebrating Joondalup and Showcase in Pixels, secondary school winner was Taj Eaton from Prendiville Catholic College.