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Exhibition
- Exhibition
  The Treasure Ships are coming! Get ready for compelling tales of exploration and trade in the 'Age of Spices'. Enjoy an overview of the exhibition and explore the latest news and reviews.
Visit
- Visit
  Navigate your way to the Art Gallery of WA. Open 10am - 5pm, Wed - Mon, closed Tue. Download the free Treasure Ship app before you visit. While you are here explore the Gallery Shop for cards and gifts inspired by the exhibition.
Tickets
- Tickets
  Purchase tickets for you, your family, and friends.
What's On
- What's On
  Set sail with our events program! We have something for everyone from hands-on art activities across our special opening weekend to special after-dark events like ARTBAR. Don't forget to download our free Treasure Ships app before you visit.
Family Fun & Education
- FAMILY FUN & LEARNING
  Calling all captains, crew, pirates, mini-mariners and mermaids. Join us for some seafaring fun and learning!
Connect
- CONNECT
  Have a question you need answered? Contact us, or find us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube and sign up to our e-news.

Media Releases

Treasure Ships: Art in the Age of Spices is on its way to Perth
14 September 2015
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Treasure Ships: Art in the Age of Spices sails into AGWA
8 October 2015
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Media Images

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Media Enquiries

Please contact Tanya Sticca
T +61 8 9492 6692 | E tanya.sticca@artgallery.wa.gov.au

Selected Press

Treasure trove of spicy art
by Laetitia Wilson in The West Australian
Rare artefacts on display for Spice Ages exhibition at the Art Gallery of WA
by Helene Lambetsos on Perthnow.com.au
Opulent works in spice age display
by William Yeoman in The West Australian
Old spice, art and treasure
by Steve Bevis in The Weekend West
Art Gallery of South Australia’s Treasure Ships: Art in the Age of Spices
review by Christopher Allen in The Australian
Treasure Ships a trove of art from meeting of East and West
review by John McDonald in The Sydney Morning Herald
‘Treasures on show for shipshape 2015 Art Gallery of SA program’
by Patrick McDonald in The Advertiser
‘Spice age treasures on show at Art Gallery of South Australia’
by Justin Burke in The Australian
‘A treasure trove of exotic discovery‘
by Suzie Keen in InDaily
‘‘Spice age’ artefacts and paintings go on show at Art Gallery of South Australia’
on ABC.net.au
‘Scholarship is the real treasure that bonds museums‘
by Gina Fairley on Visual Arts Hub

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Image detail: Japan, 'Archery contest [toshiya] at Sanjusangendo', c.1750, Kyoto, tsuitate screen mounted on panel, opaque watercolour, ink and gold on paper, 143.0 x 159.8 cm; Gift of Frances Gerard and Mark Livesey QC with the assistance of the Roy and Marjory Edwards Bequest Fund through the Art Gallery of South Australia Foundation Collectors Club 2014, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

Media Releases

Media Images

Media Enquiries

Selected Press

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'Kangaroo'

'Surcoat [jinbaori], with mon'

'On display in West Ryogooku [Nishi ryogoku ni oite kogyo] Leopard'

'Jewellery box'

'Infant Jesus, Saviour of the World'

'Portrait of D. Francisco de Almeida'

'Reliquary monstrance'

'Islands of Maluku...(Insulae Moluccae...)'

'Dutch trading ship in Japanese waters'

'Portable altarpiece, with devotional image'

'The arrival of Dutch ship at the port of Nagasaki in 1641'

'Scenes of traders at Nagasaki'

'Reliquary cross of St Francis Xavier'

'Salver'

Art Gallery of Western Australia