News edition for 30 September 2026. Added to Nungya on 22 October 2026 as part of our retrospective news archive. Reporting reflects information available by the edition date.

Artists have been using its studio since May. Now Wardandi Wanil Art Centre is welcoming the public into its gallery in central Bunbury, with an opening exhibition titled Wanil – Healing Gathering Growing.

The City of Bunbury announced the public opening on 30 September. It describes the centre as the first Aboriginal art centre open on Wardandi Noongar Country, co-designed with artists and Elders as a place to create, exhibit, sell work and share knowledge.

Willman and Ballardong Noongar curator and artist Candice Nannup curated the inaugural exhibition. Its name draws on the Wanil, the peppermint tree that also gives the centre its name. The centre has been developed through a partnership between the City of Bunbury and Gnaala Karla Booja Aboriginal Corporation, with Alcoa Foundation support.

The announcement lists free entry on Wednesdays and Fridays, 10am–4pm, at 20 Prinsep Street. It also describes an ongoing journey towards becoming a fully Aboriginal-led organisation. The months of studio activity before the gallery opening are an appealing detail: this is already a working place for artists, and the public opening creates another way for the wider community to meet that work.