The Lighter Months Program

This landmark exhibition celebrates Menang people's profound connections to the land, sea and skies of Albany and their crucial role in shaping how the region’s natural world was explored and understood.

What does a place sound like when it starts telling its own story? Albany Is, gathers the voices and soundscapes of the people who shaped this extraordinary place.

This exhibition portrays images of Kinjarling /Albany over two centuries from early colonial interpretations mapping the landscape to contemporary artists working today in the region.

Carmine brings together a collection of works by women artists held within the City of Albany Art Collection, offering a glimpse into the varied ways artists have observed, interpreted and responded to the world around them.

Once Known shares reproductions of fragile artworks created by Aboriginal children stolen from their families and detained at the Carrolup Native Settlement in the 1940s.

Goreng artist, Jennifer Woods’ paintings are grounded in Boodja (Country) not just as landscape, but as living presence. Through layered earth tones, movement and mark-making, Jennifer paints connection, memory and renewal. Her work speaks to the power of creativity as healing, and to the deep relationship between wellbeing, culture and Country, each canvas a quiet conversation with Country, inviting viewers to slow down, to sit with feeling, and to remember that healing does not always come loudly—but often through gentle, patient acts of creation.