Mirriam Stannage is a significant Western Australian artist who began her career as a painter in Perth in the late 1960s. Photography has always interested Stannage and is subject of her early painting. Underlying her painting and photography is an interest in the mechanics of seeing and our faith in that process. In her black and white photo series and her hand coloured photographs she selects and arranges incongruous and often banal objects to create narratives that reflect on mortality, religion and art. She inspires us to take a closer look at what is going on beneath the surface. This exhibition of Stannages's work from the State Art Collection includes several recently acquired series of photographs.