PICA — Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts
Heritage Victorian schoolhouse turned contemporary art galleries in a former city school building.
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This guide to PICA in Perth follows Noel Sheridan, the Dublin-born painter who became its founding director, and the derelict nineteenth-century schoolhouse he set his sights on once it stood empty. You will hear how the building drifted through decades as a school and a technical college before falling vacant, and why Sheridan spent five years pursuing funders and skeptical boards to claim it instead of a purpose-built gallery, even while holding a directorship back in Dublin. Worth pausing at the entrance to look at the brickwork before you head inside.
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