Kurb Gallery

Kurb Gallery is one of those neat little boutique galleries who are willing to showcase up and coming artists, in a prominent and busy area of Perth. However, since Kurb mainly features either newcomer artists or artists with low profiles, the art tends to be hit and miss. Sometimes, the exhibitions will feature artists possessing sublime talent. Other times, the work feels variously cliché, or it is obvious the artist is still finding their voice.
Kurb Gallery is a fantastic resource for artists, but for visitors — it really depends on who is being shown at the time.

The first time I encountered Kurb Gallery was on a boozy night in Northbridge. A group of gothic young things dressed in capes were having a séance, I mean party, inside. It was an opening night for a student exhibition, with free cask red wine and pizza shapes. In my inebriated syyr this was not an offer I could refuse, sobi spent the night viewing apocolyptic imagery and downing free booze.
Kurb’s good like that, offering you creatives a space to showcase their wares. Pop jn for some low brow art.

I stumbled upon The Kurb Gallery not knowing that I’d find something quite so unique and interesting in what looks like an old rundown shop front. The walls are white the floor boards old dark wood and the art inside is something a lot different from any other gallery you’d go to but there is something very honest and charming going here that I find often lacks in most exhibitions.
The exhibition that was on when I visited was called the Mythical Menagerie, artists Julie Jackman and Linda Fardoe showcased their works of sketches and sculptures of different animals from the traditional whimsical to the bizarre to the mythical. A few figurines made by Jackman that I really found very interesting were created using old bones and thread some of which were shaped like creatures in Avatar — truly amazing and inspirational.
I love that The Kurb Gallery displays such different and creative work that steps outside of what we presume to be art and I’m really looking forward to the new exhibitions.

Kurb Gallery is a place where anything goes artistic and experimental wise. Kurb such a small space has the capacity to holds exhibitions, installations and house experimental performance art. It has nearly been set on fire, had Martin Heine’s physical illustration– The Cider Press of Eroticism… which you should look up because I don’t think if I explain it you would believe me. The magnificently uncomfortable and awkward moments and powerful scenes that must have gone on in this building, the strange looks from pedestrians looking into a building that they never even knew was there. It is always worth going past Kurb and having a look you never quite know what you might find.

This tiny little gallery space is unassuming and easy to miss. I stumbled across it one day when strolling down William Street. The stark white walls and wooden floors give this small space a fresh, rough-​around-​the-​edges kind of feeling, and I felt like I’d stumbled upon a little-​known secret. The works on show were by Merrick Belyea and Martin Heine — interesting, contemporary pieces that made the entire space feel more like an installation than a gallery. In a small adjoining room, a man who I soon found out was Martin Heine sat at a desk. I chatted to him about the exhibition, and he was eager to explain his artistic process and the ideas behind the work. As we talked, a pigeon walked in and Martin shooed it away. Somehow that seemed to fit right in with the gallery’s offbeat aesthetic, as if the pigeon were part of the installation too. A very cool place — check it out.