31 October 2025
Local talent on display at 2025 Art Awards and Exhibition
Wembley Downs resident Deborah Worthy-Collins has taken home the top prize at the City of Stirling’s 2025 Art Awards and Exhibition.
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The City acknowledges the importance of art as a means of fostering health, wellbeing, and community connectedness. In addition to the continued development of culturally significant visual art and public art collections, the City facilitates a range of community art opportunities including exhibitions, workshops, events and activities.
Art Awards and Exhibition 2025
The 2025 City of Stirling Art Awards and Exhibition was a resounding success! We would like to thank everyone for your warm embrace of this event.
Visit the Art Awards webpage to discover the award winners and more. This biennale event will return in 2027.
The Art Awards and Exhibition 2025 were supported by Art Display Hire, Oxlades Art Supplies, Rotary Club of Karrinyup and Westfield Innaloo.
Image (left to right, back to front): Shelley Cowley, Nazila Jahangir, Soosie Jobson, Brett Leigh Dicks, Vanessa Wallace, Natalie Eastwell, Lisa Findling's sibling, Deborah Worthy-Jones, Ric Burkitt. Image captured by Ezra Elcantra Photography.
The City's art and history collections have a new home
Over the past year a new and upgraded online database that houses both the Art and Local History Collections has been developed. This new collection management system and website will allow anyone to access elements of these Collections at the click of a button.
The City of Stirling’s Visual Art Collection incorporates 250 artworks that span the mediums of painting, works on paper, sculpture, textile, ceramics, photography and digital art, with an emphasis on contemporary Western Australian artists and arts practice, and includes work by First Nations artists. The collection is displayed and rotated throughout the City’s civic, administration and community buildings.
The Public Art Collection consists of over 70 permanent sculptures, integrated artworks, murals, play-friendly pieces and functional artworks that contribute to the City’s public spaces by expressing local stories, enhancing neighbourhoods, public amenities and community connections to place.
Image Credit: Annette Allman, City of Stirling Lakes, 2006, Oil on canvas, 50cm x 117cm” (detail)
Arts news in the City
Arts events in the City
Artist in Residence 2024
2024's Artist in Residence program invited artists working across all mediums to create a unique, communal tapestry.
The City’s residency program helps artists grow and connect with people and places. The program ran from 7 October to 8 December 2024, and supported five selected artists with opportunities, funding, and resources.
- Ross Potter investigated slow movements of nature and the ecology within Star Swamp, gaining a deeper understanding of the site through community consultation
- Claire Billie Bushby explored the diverse birdlife at Star Swamp Reserve and the entwined relationships of people and birds
- Sally Stoneman used her residency at the Stirling Women's Shed to invest time and creativity into their transformation of wooden treasures from her southwest property
- Annette Peterson explored the concept of ‘Tender Connections’, inspecting the coastal plain and surrounding areas of Mount Flora Regional Museum to illuminate intimate, often overlooked moments
- Robyn Jean invited Aboriginal women and community members to participate in portrait sessions at Stirling Libraries - Mirrabooka, with props or fabrics of personal significance, capturing stories, identities, and connections to culture.
The new Artist in Residence program will run in 2026. Register your interest by emailing arts@stirling.wa.gov.au
Visual Art Collection
The City of Stirling’s Visual Art Collection incorporates over 230 artworks by established and emerging artists that are displayed throughout the City’s civic, administration and community buildings.
With an emphasis on Western Australian contemporary arts practice since the 1970s, the collection features 2D and small-scale 3D works encompassing painting, works on paper, sculpture, textile, ceramics, photography and digital art. Many of the artworks that form the Art Collection today have been acquired from the City’s long-running Art Awards.
Focus areas of the collection include ‘Local Identity’ and ‘City of Stirling Landscapes’. The growing Indigenous art collection also highlights works by renowned local Nyoongar artists, such as Peter Farmer and Shane Pickett (dec.).
Since 2000, the Visual Art Collection Policy has provided a framework for maintenance, development and management of the City’s art collection.
Made in Stirling video series
'Made in Stirling' is a series of short interviews with the many creatives living and working within our City. From musicians to sculptors, to eco artists and DJ’s we are shining a spotlight on these amazing individuals and their creative practices. Be fascinated and inspired as you get to go behind the scenes and into their studios or settle in on the couch to enjoy a chat from their lounge rooms!
Image: Local artist plus one of our 2024 artists in residence, Robyn Jean. Photo credit: Soco Studios.
Public Art Collection
The City of Stirling’s Public Art Collection consists of over 50 permanent pieces, including sculptures, integrated artworks, murals, play-friendly artworks and functional artworks. The collection has a strong focus on works by Western Australian artists, with a mix of established and emerging creatives.
The Public Art Collection features artworks that form an integral part of each place and community, enhancing the City’s thriving neighbourhoods and public amenities, providing a vehicle for the expression of local stories and identities, building community connection and contributing to economic development.
City acquisitions and management processes are guided by the Public Art Policy, which includes a requirement for City-led capital works projects over a certain value to allocate a per cent of the project budget to public artwork.
The City also administers the Public Art on Private Land Policy (LPP 6.12), which stipulates a provision of public art within specified developments as a means of complementing the impacts of urban intensification by improving the appearance and amenity of places. This is accompanied by a Developer’s Guide to Public Art to assist developers with the requirements of the policy and ensure appropriate public art considerations are made.
The Public Art Masterplan guides the direction and actions for development of all future public art in the City.
Scarborough Public Art Trail
The City of Stirling’s public art includes exceptional quality, stimulating artworks which form an integral part of each place and community, reflecting their environment and enhancing our City’s thriving neighbourhoods and places. View the City's attractions and public art map.
Colour-in a City of Stirling Mural
Get creative and add your own flair to one of the City's iconic murals with these new colouring-in sheets - great for the school holidays!
Be sure to tag your masterpiece with #artandaboutstirling and @cityofstirlingwa - we can't wait to see what you create!
