COOL CHANGE
Cool Change Contemporary Inc. is a multi-gallery artist-run initiative (ARI) formerly located within the historic Bon Marché Arcade building on Barrack Street in the Boorloo/Perth CBD. We host a monthly program of exhibitions supported by regular performances, screenings, workshops and events, and are home to a shop selling artist-made goods and publications.
Cool Change is the arrival of a cold front in the afternoon or evening after a day of high summertime temperatures. It is the sense of interconnectedness with your surroundings and a feeling that things are about to pick up. Cool Change Contemporary stands for critically engaged work, an accessible, welcoming environment and an agile, responsive outlook.
A volunteer-led organisation, Cool Change was founded by Jess Boyce, Emma Buswell, Grace Connors, Miranda Johnson, Melissa McGrath, Shoshana Rosenberg, and Matthew Siddall, opening in August 2018.
Cool Change operates near Kuraree, once a meeting place for Whadjuk Noongar Bibbulmun moort (family), brought together by ke-ning (corroboree) to share kaartdijin (knowledge).
We acknowledge that this is and always will be Aboriginal land, and that our capacity to engage in creative practice on this boodja is informed by the knowledge and labour of First Nations People.
(Place names retrieved from Gnarla Boodja Mili Mili)
OUR TEAM
COMMITTEE
Mayma Awaida
Samuel Beilby
Paul Boyé
Grace Connors
Alex Egloff
Danielle Fusco
Kauri Minhinnick
Cornah Willis
GALLERY MANAGER
Dan Bourke
VOLUNTEERS
The Cool Change committee is supported by a number of additional hardworking volunteers. If you would like to help us by volunteering your time or becoming a donor or sponsor, please email hello@coolchange.net.au for more information.
PRESS
- Exhibition text by Stas Julien-Martial for Runway Journal (23 April 2021)
- Exhibition review: Seesaw Magazine (10 September 2020)
- Exhibition review: Seesaw Magazine (12 August 2019)
- Exhibition review by Graham Mathwin: Sensible Perth (11 April 2019)
- “Perth’s new gallery: Cool Change Contemporary” – Art Guide (4 September 2018)
- “Time for a Cool Change” – Fabric Quarterly (20 August 2018)
- “Time for a Cool Change” – RTRFM (3 August 2018)
- “Cool Change moving in” – Business News Western Australia (31 July 2018)
- “A break in the weather” – Seesaw Magazine (26 July 2018)
- “Time for a Cool Change” – X-Press Magazine (26 July 2018)
- “Cool Change Contemporary” – RTRFM (17 June 2018)
- “New gallery a cool change for Perth’s visual arts sector” – Artshub (1 June 2018)