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An Independent, self funded, non-profit Artist Run Initiative / Artist Run Space collectively run by all artists.

What the art critics say ...

"Recent attitudes to art miss the point. Artists make art because they must. Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, artists gotta to make art.  But how to go about it?  A good way is to work as a group in a cooperative studio. It helps pay the rent and sorts out all those petty inhibitions and pretensions..." read more 

Dr David Bromfield 
Art Critic / Author / past Head of Visual Arts, ALVA, University of Western Australia
... One result of the huge social and economic changes within the arts has been to create a proliferation of artist driven initiatives. Sometimes artists, particularly 'emerging artists', group together from the same sense of need for a supportive philosophical environment as did the Impressionists, Dadaists, Expressionists or Heidelberg painters... read more
Prof. N. Weston
Artist / past Art Critic: WA Newspaper / past  Head of School of Art, Head of School, WAAPA, Edith Cowan University
... Within these walls there is a spark of something that is very hard to describe, but it may well be this intangible element that is the reason that this artist run initiative (ARI) is now celebrating 20 years. In a collaborative, energised environment, each artist acts as a charged agent engaged in creative processes that they know to be both vital for themselves as individuals and for the sustenance of multiple creative communities.   read more
 Lee Kinsella  
​2019 Special Projects Curator at Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, University of Western Australia
... The space is open and social, and all the artists that I talked with spoke about how important working in such an open and social space was...  read more                                         
Dr Maria Miranda
Research Fellow, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne.  Blogger on Artist Run Initives
The aim of the Art Academies of the 17th and 18th centuries was to impose rules, ideas and practices which were basically conservative, and realistic. History, Mythology and Religion were the only acceptable subject genres, and only formal composition with three-dimensional perspective was allowed. Artists then, as now, however, liked to challenge ... read more
​Jan Altmann (lecturer and writer): BA (hons), MA, Dip Ed, Ph.D. (Murdoch)