The Cocoon Gallery for Emerging Artists warmly welcomes Renison Belbin into the space

“I’m Renison, an 18-year-old emerging artist from Margaret River, currently in a gap year and working with fluid acrylic techniques. My pieces in this exhibition used+ over 12 litres of paint across 15+ canvases, where I create each work by pouring a full liquid base coat before carefully guiding and stretching it through blowing the paint across the surface. Differences in paint density create natural cell structures and organic movement, forming each piece in its own unique way.

Inspired by the meeting of light and water, sunset colours in the sky and reef tones beneath the surface, unified by the golden shimmer of fading light. My work reflects movement, atmosphere, and the coastal environment I grew up with, inviting you to slow down and experience each piece beyond the surface.
I encourage you to take a deeper look into each work and appreciate not only the larger details, but also the subtle variations and cells within the paint.”

Exhibition Launch

Thursday 28th May, 6 – 7pm. Light refreshments will be provided. Please RSVP your attendance to amrlibrary@amrshire.wa.gov.au or Phone: 9780 5600

Launching ‘POP BANG SNIP’, in the Cocoon Gallery for emerging artists

Thursday 9 April, 5.30pm – 6.30pm

Join us in celebrating Pier’s exhibition launch in the Cocoon Gallery for emerging artists. Light refreshments will be provided with the chance to chat to the artist about his technique and style.

As well as viewing the pop-art style works, a feature of this evening event is to showcase some work that doesn’t fit on the gallery walls. Pier will be bringing his illustrative line drawings in architectural style showing how versatile he is.

For more information about the exhibition or to RSVP to the launch, please contact Pier directly. Email: pier42art@gmail.com

Call in at the Augusta Library to view the beautiful framed artworks by Morgane Chebahi. Working primarily with acrylics, she has developed a distinctive style that blends rich textures, often incorporating jarrah sawdust as both pigment and material to evoke the beach. Her signature figures help bring stories and emotions to life on canvas.

She hopes that viewers find something of themselves in her characters, each one carries a story, an emotion, and her love for life.

The exhibition is made up of framed original paintings and framed prints of some of her more popular images and all works are for sale through the artist.

The Augusta Library is open:
Tuesday to Thursday
10am – 12pm and 1pm – 4pm
The Augusta Library is closed on Monday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The exhibition will continue until June 2026.