ARTERY: no.4
8 August – 25 October 2026
Lucinda Tassone
ARTERY is a Boorloo-based ekphrastic magazine run by and for emerging writers and artists. Each issue features an art piece by an emerging Western Australian artist, which serves as a prompt for creative response from emerging Australian writers. With its intermedial focus, ARTERY promotes interdisciplinary dialogue and experimental writing practices. Lucinda Tassone is an emerging multidisciplinary artist from […]
Read moreSwamped
8 August – 25 October 2026
MSAC Collective
While only a few in the MSAC collective have publicly identified themselves, it is believed that there are around a dozen core-members, including two convicted of art forgery in the early 2000s. The collective met in 2014 at the Cardwell UFO Festival in Cardwell, Queensland, and share the belief that they are diasporic extraterrestrials living […]
Read moreRITA 3: Fit For People
8 August – 25 October 2026
Spiros Panigirakis, Katie West, Deborah Halpern, curated by Jeremy Eaton & Andrew Atchison
Fit For People looks to the unorthodox and countercultural urban design approaches of Paul Ritter, Perth’s first urban planner, as a catalyst to interrogate the ever more homogenised aesthetic and bureaucratic mediation of urban space. Drawing together archival documents and artists who engage with urban space through intervention, public sculpture and adaptive reuse, Fit For […]
Read moreEvents & Opportunities
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Saturday, 12 September 2026, 2.00pm - 4.00pm
In this hands-on workshop, children aged 8 to 12 will create their own small plaster artwork inspired by buildings, parks, playgrounds, patterns and public spaces. Using simple sculpting and modelling techniques, participants will make a unique artwork to take home. This workshop invites children to consider the importance of design in the spaces they use […]
Goolugatup LAB Workshop
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Saturday, 12 September 2026, 4.00pm - 9.00pm
“I speak to maps. And sometimes they say something back to me. This is not as strange as it sounds.” – Abdulrazak Gurnah Echo-Location is a special edition of Goolugatup’s ongoing live music series and explores the mapping of places, spaces and stories through sound. Showcasing a diverse lineup of local and national artists including Helen […]
Echo-Location | Presented by Goolugatup Sounds
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Wednesday, 16 September 2026, 6:30pm - 9.00pm
VHS Tracking Presents...VHS Tracking Presents: Born in Flames (1983)
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Friday, 18 September 2026, 10.00am - 11.00am
Join Goolugatup Gallery Curator Paul Boye on a tour of our current exhibitions – RITA3: Fit for People and Swamped. Both exhibitions feature a series of works concerned with archives, their making and their meaning. Take a closer look at the work of leading contemporary artists, such as Deborah Halpern and Katie West.
Goolugatup Morning Talks | Gallery Tour with Curator Paul Boye
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Saturday, 7 November 2026, 5.00pm
Exhibitions opening & live music, Saturday 7 November 2026, from 5PM. Enjoy a stunner sunset over the Derbal Yerrigan + full bar, great food & FREE entry as always.☆☆☆ Gallery 1 + 2Brett NannupA homeland bound [with] grief 1.8.2.7. Brett Nannup is Goolugatup’s 18th TILT Artist. The yearly TILT program is Goolugatup’s major site-responsive commission […]
OPENING: Brett Nannup, A homeland bound [with] grief 1.8.2.7. (TILT 2027)
About us
Goolugatup Heathcote is a cultural precinct overlooking the Derbal Yerrigan in Applecross, WA. This heritage site is home to thriving cultural and recreational activities including a contemporary art gallery, restaurant, artist studios, public markets, events, and creative small businesses. Goolugatup is renowned for sunset river views and an expansive children’s playground, both of which attract locals and visitors alike.
Goolugatup Heathcote, part of the City of Melville, acknowledges the Bibbulmun people as the Traditional Owners of the land on which we stand and pay respect to the Whadjuk people, and Elders past, present, future.
Visit us
Goolugatup Heathcote is located on the shores of the Derbal Yerrigan, in the suburb of Applecross, just south of the centre of Boorloo Perth, WA. It is 10 minute drive from the CBD, the closest train station is Canning Bridge, and the closest bus route the 148.
58 Duncraig Rd, Applecross,
Boorloo (Perth), Western Australia
Ph: (08) 9364 5666
Email: heath.cote@melville.wa.gov.au
Open 10–4 Tuesday–Sunday, closed public holidays. The grounds are open 24/7.
