The artwork welcoming students to the new Senior Block at Cassia Primary School in South Hedland was created by local Karriyara and Nyamal artist Elisha McDonald. The artwork shows three tall eucalyptus trees standing side by side, representing strength, growth and connection. Their deep roots spread through the land, linking colourful native flowers that reflect the Cassia Primary School community.

Elisha’s beautiful drawings have been transformed into shade screens, with technical support from Paula Hart. The screens are the entry statement for the senior classroom and celebrate the importance of the Cassia tree to the Karriyara people and the Pilbara region.

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Alan Meyburgh’s suspended artwork in the New Technologies building complements the light and flow of the Student Hub. A flock of thirty-one hand carved birds fly through the void on their journey to a higher plane. A wonderful metaphor for education, the birds symbolise intelligence and adaptation within the supportive flock. The larger birds are the mentors and teachers while the younger birds follow behind and learn. Their wings beat separately as they soar, twist and turn together as one.

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Alex and Nicole Mickle of Safehaven Studios are an artist team based in the Leschenault bushland. Their artwork, ‘Fibonacci – The Divine Proportion’, is a 6 metre high freestanding sculpture of stainless steel and native jarrah, complemented by a lenticular graphic applied to the vertical sunshades of the new teaching block.

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Responding to themes of belonging and inclusivity, it was exciting for Paula Hart to work with an existing school with strong community pride. The artist employed processes that directed the students towards a unique view of their place and this imagery was then translated as powder-coated, aluminium panels for the staircase, window features and a large feature wall integrated within the design of new building additions for this well-established school.

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David Ledger created three unique paintings exploring the representation of metaphysical space as he responded to the architecture of the new building. The main work ‘Convergence 1’ scales up his painting in a 1:20 ratio applied as a printed aluminium mural on the atrium wall. Shape, line and colour are dynamically used to suggest another space, beyond the internal walls of the building.

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Si Hummerston’s beautiful, weathered steel shade structure titled ‘Marlu’, was commissioned through the WA State Percent for Art Scheme. This sculpture was created for the new workshops for the Pundulmurra TAFE Expansion project in Port Hedland for the Pilbara Region.

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The mural that welcomes visitors to Victoria Park Primary School was commissioned under the State Government’s Percent for Art Scheme and is by Whadjuk Ballardong artist Shane Hansen Yondee. The mural depicts the Noongar Six Seasons on a journey down the Derbarl Yerrigan (Swan River).

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The artist team of Penny Bovell and Margaret Dillon have been inspired by the significant wetlands of nearby Herdsman Lake, also named Njookenbooro by the Whadjuk Noongar people, for the series of artworks that bring the healing powers of the natural world to the hospital.

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The Dot is an integrated glass artwork created by artist George Howlett. The art work is a bold and simple statement that represents the school’s STEM curriculum as a series of dots that radiate outwards.

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Perth based artist Lorenna Grant worked with seven local artists who came together in a series of ‘en plein air’ workshops to create the artworks. Over 60 original artworks were created.

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Paula Hart’s new artwork is a simple fence, and the making of the fence is an amazing journey and involves some remarkable artists along the way. The project started in a classroom in Bunbury, Western Australia where Paula and the students looked at the local landmark Big Swamp, which is a home to many native birds.

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Capture the Winds is an integrated wall artwork applied to the exterior of the science building and was created by Margaret River based artist Elisa Markes-Young. The artwork design has also informed design approaches on the floor and walls in the interior of the building.

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Passage through a Portal is an installation of three large freestanding sculptures set into the landscape of The Hub, the new theatre and visual arts building at Shenton College, by artist Geoffrey Drake-Brockman. The surfaces of the sculptures are made up of reflective metallic areas alternating with brightly-coloured facets.

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Life Channels is an impressive handmade tile artwork applied to the walls of the refurbished entry of the Harvey Health Service to welcome visitors. The artist team were Ian Dowling, Carmel Warner and Matt Griffiths.

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Local artists Anton Blume, Bonni Ingram and art producer Sabrina Dowling Giudici created a series of artworks reflecting the rugged beauty and stories of the Gascoyne River.

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Tim Macfarlane Reid, the commissioned artist for the Percent for Art Scheme project, is an acclaimed sculptor who works predominantly in large format steel. Welding and sculpting each artwork in his studio in Fremantle, the series of artworks for the Central Regional TAFE are inspired by the contours of the landscape.

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Perth based artist Simon Gauntlett’s artwork for the new training institute titled SW2 is an impressive industrial design based on the head of a bolt, a simple fastener. Using the hexagon shape in an interlocking design, Gauntlett has created a self-supporting perimeter wall.

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Paula Hart created a striking artwork for the main entry gate of the new North Regional TAFE based on the iconic native flower, the Mulla Mulla. The new TAFE is the largest training facility in the North West and provides training for mining and local industry.

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Butler College embraces the philosophy of education as a dynamic science that is always on the move. With this in mind, artist team Phil and Dawn Gamblen used the mathematical structure of geometry to create a series of artworks based on movement; Mobius, Toroid and Ventus Lux.

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Artists Anne Neil and Noeleen Hamlett present their individual artworks for the WA Percent for Art Scheme for Mount Lawley Senior High School. The artworks feature dynamic Chinese and Aboriginal designs executed in glazed bricks which are integrated into the walls of the new Middle School Building.

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The aim of the Colour Collective by Alex Spremberg is to inspire a sense of curiosity, enquiry and discovery in students, while engaging them with the notion of personal identity embedded within the larger identity of the student body and the national identities of the world.

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Six artists; Paul Caporn, Ben Forster, Mike Gray, Sohan Ariel Hayes, Brad Rimmer and Joshua Webb were commissioned to develop work based on light, transparency, projection and photography. The idea evolved in response to the location. The walkway provided a shaded area within the inner city to support light based works throughout the day rather than only at night.

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