FORM acknowledges the Traditional Owners and Custodians throughout Western Australia both past and present, whose enduring connection to this Country and ongoing contributions to our collective culture and communities we respect and honour. We appreciate and are deeply grateful for the privilege of working on these lands.
FORM Building a State of Creativity 39 Gugeri Street Claremont WA 6010
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Front page: Many Hands-Light Work (detail), Collaboration between Mandy White and over 40 students from Sir David Brand School, Acrylic Installation work, High VisAbility, FORM Gallery, 2025. Project produced by Community Arts Network, 2024. Photography by Ludvig Nilsson, courtesy of FORM Building A State Of Creativity.
About FORM Building a State of Creativity
FORM Building a State of Creativity is an independent, not-for-profit arts and cultural organisation based in Claremont and operating across Western Australia and beyond.
Our mission is to be a leader in developing a vibrant creative economy for the benefit and wellbeing of all Western Australian communities.
FORM’s vision is for Western Australia to be a thriving and connected participant in a global creative economy. We want to see the diversity and excellence of Western Australian cultural expression shared with local and international audiences and
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communities. Our vision is realised through our values: creativity, excellence, integrity, community empowerment and collaboration.
FORM’s programs include FORM Gallery & Café; FORM Creative Learning (Scribblers and Creative Schools); Spinifex Hill Studio in South Hedland; Cultural Tourism experiences such as Thomas Dambo's Giants of Mandurah and the PUBLIC Silo Trail, plus Arts and Cultural Consultancy.
Reflection (terazzo in ground), Larissa Brown, 2024. Spoilbank Marina, WA. Photograph by AB Videography.
"Great to see emerging artists represented and more contemporary styles of artwork as well. I spent a good 2 hours enjoying the whole experience!
- Gallery Visitor
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FORM Gallery & Café
FORM Gallery & Café is an oasis of culture, creativity, community, and delicious coffee. FORM provides the culture and creativity, while our good friends and neighbours, El Cabro, provide the coffee, all conveniently located beside Claremont train station; come be part of the FORM community!
Here, we present exhibitions and events highlighting aspects of FORM’s programs, to promote creativity and highlight Western Australia's talented regional artists to a metropolitan audience.
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FORM Gallery & FORM Café
Mon–Sun: 6:30am–1:00pm
FORM Gallery & Café 4 Shenton Road Claremont WA 6010
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High VisAbility Celebration Event at FORM Gallery, 2025. Photography by Ludvig Nilsson, Image courtesy of FORM Building A State Of Creativity.
30 MAY–26 JULY 2025
Where We Come From: The artists of Ngarluma and Yindjibarndi Country
Roebourne Art Development Program
Since colonial settlement, the west Pilbara town of Roebourne has had a long and controversial history. The Traditional Owners, the Ngarluma people, call it Ieramagadu. Today, it is a melting pot of language groups and several art centres in and around the town nurture significant numbers of the Pilbara’s most innovative artists.
In 2020, Ngarluma and Yindjibarndi artists invited FORM to help support and develop their professional skills and profile. As well as facilitating practices in canvas, glass, printmaking, photography and ceramics, FORM’s Roebourne Art Development Program has also helped the art centres of the west Pilbara strengthen their business, curatorial and administrative models. In the past year, many independent artists have joined the program.
The artworks in Where We Come From show the richness of artistic expression emerging from this region, and reveal layers of lived experience, memory, and history. The stories shared are as varied as they are personal, yet they resonate with us all: identity, struggle, joy, resilience, and belonging. Stay tuned for more details on public programming.
Sales open online on Saturday, 31 May 2025.
Exhibition Celebration 5:30PM - 7:30PM Friday, 20 June 2025
Curatorial Workshop with Cheeditha Art Group & Juluwarlu Art Group, facilitated by Zali Morgan, Walyalup, 2024. Image courtesy of FORM Building A State of Creativity.
7 AUGUST–27 SEPTEMBER 2025
The Spirit of Esperance Kepa Kurl
A Southern Exposure exhibition
The coastal town of Esperance/Kepa Kurl on Wudjari Country is the focus for the latest in FORM’s Southern Exposure exhibition series, showcasing the people and creativity of the State’s southern regions. Kepa Kurl (pronounced 'Kep-pa Kurl') is the Wudjari name for Esperance meaning 'where the waters lie like boomerangs' referring to the shape of the two bays neighbouring the townsite. For the past year, FORM has been working with the community on a prospective Esperance Sculpture Trail project.
The Spirit of Esperance Kepa Kurl shares pieces inspired by the character and spirit of the town and its beautiful surroundings. Multidisciplinary artist Stuart McMillan (who relocated from Margaret River/Wardandi Country for a three-week residency) presents work alongside pieces by established local artists, and a vibrant collaborative centrepiece by the Esperance community.
Exhibition Opening 5:30PM - 7:30PM Thursday, 7 August 2025
Esperance In Your Element Community Mural (detail), by community members and artists. The Cannery Arts Centre, Esperance, WA, 2025. Photography by Rani Fankha.
Water Carrier, Bobbi Lockyer & Skye Lockyer, 2024. Spoilbank Marina, WA. Photograph by AB Videography.
FORM's Work
FORM’s projects and programs take place all over Western Australia, from the Pilbara to the Great Southern. We run creative learning programs in schools; take children’s authors and illustrators out on the road to remote communities; create large-scale arts experiences to attract visitors and enhance local economies; and we also run a fee-for-service consultancy offering planning and management for major public art projects and cultural strategy.
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"The kids who are not normally accessing the curriculum, thrive. They are immersing themselves in this and that is so nice to see."
- Teacher, Creative Schools 2024
Creative Schools workshop with Trudi Bennett, 2020. Image courtesy of FORM Building a State of Creativity.
FORM CREATIVE LEARNING Creative Schools
FORM’s Creative Learning programming runs year-round in schools and in communities. They are designed to empower young people to develop their creativity, sense of agency and wellbeing through programs that foster curiosity, a love of learning and young people’s ability to make sense of the world around and within them.
Creative Schools is our innovative evidence-backed creative learning program. To date, the program has reached nearly five and a half thousand students, in 209 Western Australian classrooms, over 10% of schools in the state.
It uses creative teaching and learning strategies to cultivate young people’s agency and engagement in learning across the Western Australian
curriculum. It helps young people develop the Five Creative Habits of Learning: being imaginative, inquisitive, collaborative, persistent and self-disciplined.
In 2025 FORM is working with the Association of Independent Schools WA (AISWA) to deliver professional learning experiences for teachers in the independent school system. By equipping more teachers with creative learning strategies, FORM is transforming the way more students engage in their education across the State.
Does YOUR school need Creative Schools? Do you want to support the work we do in education? Get in touch with us.
Find out more
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learning@form.net.au
www.creativeschools.com.au
FORM's Scribblers on the Road, Family Day, 2024. South Hedland, WA.
Photo by AB Videography, image courtesy of FORM Building a State of Creativity.
FORM CREATIVE LEARNING
Scribblers
Scribblers is a celebration of storytelling in all its forms for children and young people.
We bring families together with storytellers from all over the world – graphic novelists, authors, oral storytellers, illustrators, cartoonists and more – to ignite curiosity and a love of learning in children and young people, helping them make sense of the world around and within them. In April we took Scribblers on the Road to the Goldfields for the first time, and we'll be heading back to the Pilbara later this year.
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Exhibition Celebration
5:30PM - 7:30PM Thursday, 7 August 2025
Annual Christmas Sale 28 November - 5 December 2025
Spinifex Hill Studio, 2024. Image courtesy of FORM Building A State of Creativity.
Spinifex Hill Studio
Spinifex Hill Studio
Spinifex Hill Studio stands on Kariyarra Country (South Hedland) in the Pilbara. It's the only art centre in the Hedland area supporting the practices of established and emerging First Nations artists. It’s unique in Australia as an urban-based centre welcoming people from numerous language groups and supporting an eclectic range of art practices which reflect the diversity of First Nations experience.
The Studio and its gallery (plus online shop) are where people can buy work, connect with artists, and support the preservation and sharing of Aboriginal culture, heritage, and identity.
Two more exhibitions will be presented throughout the year, along with our annual Christmas Sale.
Buy artworks in person at Spinifex Hill Studio’s gallery, or online at spinifexhillstudio.com.au/shop
Exhibition opening of Maggie x Doreen at Spinifex Hill Studio, 2023. Photograph by
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Spinifex Hill Studio and FORM are members of the Indigenous Art Code, a system that preserves and promotes ethical trading in Indigenous art.
Spinifex Hill Studio is proud to be a member of the Aboriginal Art Centre Hub Western Australia (AACHWA). AACHWA works for and with WA Aboriginal Art Centres to celebrate the strength of our art and culture.
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Mark Tweedle workshop in Roebourne, 2024. Photography by Jess Allan Photography.
FORM CULTURAL TOURISM
Roebourne Art Development Program
Since June 2020, FORM’s Roebourne Art Development Program has offered artistic development opportunities specifically designed to cultivate and broaden skills and competencies for artists and staff at Aboriginal art centres in the Roebourne area, including Yinjaa-Barni Art, Juluwarlu Art Group, and Cheeditha Art Group.
In 2025, thanks to increased funding from Woodside, FORM extended the program’s artistic mentoring and business skills training to include local independent artists.
The program helps artists develop skills that increase the opportunities for them to share their culture, further their careers and generate an income through art.
Mentorships and training respond to the artists’ stated needs and contexts, so that each group and individual accesses the support best suited to them.
Artists from this part of the Pilbara are receiving well deserved and increasing acclaim. FORM hopes that the program will continue to play its part in contributing to the sustainability and longevity of each centre and artist business and subsequently, the broader Pilbara Aboriginal art sector.
Savage Beauty, Kari Kola, 2020. Connemara, County Galway, Ireland.
This spectacular Australian-first open air experience launches the Albany 2026 commemorations. Co-created by Finnish artist Kari Kola and Albany’s communities, and produced by FORM, a dramatic illumination of the landforms around the southern port city will direct the gaze towards the life-giving source of the ocean, the focus of so much ancestral, cultural, ecological and historical meaning.
For more information visit albany2026.com.au
Get in touch with us at culturaltourism@form.net.au
Untitled, Dulk, 2024. RIver Country Art Trail, Mathoura, NSW.
Photograph by Mitchell Barkman Videography.
FORM ARTS & CULTURAL CONSULTANCY
Arts & Cultural Consultancy
FORM’s profit-for-purpose consultancy team is increasingly sought after for its expertise in delivering impactful public art projects that foster a deep connection to place, celebrate cultural identity, and inspire local pride. As a not-for-profit cultural charity, all proceeds from FORM's consultancy services go to support our work for the benefit of Western Australian communities.
From large- scale urban commissions to regionally significant initiatives, FORM creates meaningful artistic experiences that enrich communities. Most recently, the team has been overseeing the commissioning of mural on four water towers, plus a sculpture as part of the River Country Art Trail in New South Wales. Previous major projects include iconic works at Spoilbank Marina in Port Hedland, Crown Towers, Elizabeth Quay, Optus Stadium, and Perth Airport.
To learn more or discuss how we can support your project, contact us at consulting@form.net.au
Support the Work We Do
Without the generous support of partners, patrons and donors, the work FORM does would simply not be possible. Those who contribute are not only investing in the organisation, but the broader arts sector, the next generation of young creatives, and the lives and livelihoods of fellow Western Australians.
Join our generous circle of donors today. philanthropy@form.net.au
Andy Quilty and Youth Futures Community School print making workshop at Midland Junction Arts Centre, 2024.
Photo by Duncan Wright.
Happy Meals and Scooter Skids by Andy Quilty and WA High School Students, Perth Festival x FORM, 2025.
Photo by Dan MacBride courtesy of FORM.
Principal Project Partner (Pilbara)
Creative Thinker Partners Government Partners
Supporting Partners
Anonymous Donors
Cecile Crochu & Alan Ng
Don & Victoria Fini
Katrina & Craig Burton
Kathy Reid
Lorraine and Graeme Rowley (Rowley Foundation Pty Ltd)
Marco D'Orsonga & Terry Scott
Marilyn Burton
MEM Loton OAM
Mike & Monica Wertheim
Nadia & Johnno Lefroy
Nicolette Cassella
Paula Rogers & Phil Thick
Paul Kotsoglo & Alexandra Horoch
Peter Lee OAM
Peter & Diana Hammond (Tropical Holdings Pty Ltd)
Randal & Monique Humich
Spinifex Trust
Tania Hudson
The Farm Margaret River Ltd
The Planning Institute Australia
The Winter Family
Tim Shanahan
Sue Fletcher & Richard Chapman
Sue & Gareth Bamford
Vivienne Stewart
Partners and Donors confirmed as of April 2025 for the events and programming outlined in this program.
