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Join us at LWAG for our program for visitors living with dementia and their carers or family members.

Let’s Meet provides a forum for conversation through the shared viewing and exploration of artworks on display – highlighting themes, artists, and artworks currently exhibited.

Community Partner: Alzheimer's WA

The Long Kiss Goodbye

8 February - 9 May 2020

The Long Kiss Goodbye explores how artists transform familiar materials and symbols into complex meditations on love, loss, attraction and repulsion.

This evocative exhibition features a group of artists from around the nation, each with a unique connection to Western Australia.

Sarah Contos (NSW) | Penny Coss (WA) | Iain Dean (WA) | Michele Elliot with Tender Funerals (NSW) | Brent Harris (VIC) | and Clare Peake (NT)

Presented in association with Perth Festival

Image: Sarah Contos, Sarah Contos Presents: The Long Kiss Goodbye (detail), 2016, screen-print on linen, canvas and lamé, digital printed fabrics and various found fabrics, PVC, poly-fil, glass, ceramic and plastic beads, thread, artists' gloves, 610 x 330 x 25 cm, Art Gallery of South Australia, Gift of Janet & Diana Ramsay Foundation for the Ramsay Art Prize 2017. Photograph courtesy the artist and Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney.