Art at the edge of world.

Lot 2 Artspace was created by Leigh Grey-Smith, grandson of renowned Western Australian modernist artists Guy and Helen Grey-Smith.

The gallery showcases significant works from the Grey-Smith collection alongside exhibitions featuring other artists from the region. Pemberton has a unique and deep artistic tradition, with artists historically drawn to this part of the world for its profound natural environment and remote forest setting.

Guy Grey-Smith (1916-1981) was one of Western Australia's most celebrated modernist artists. A World War II veteran, he developed his artistic practice in the post-war period, working primarily in painting and woodcut prints. His work focused on the Western Australian landscape and became widely recognised for its distinctive approach to representing the region's light, space, and terrain.

Helen Grey-Smith (1916-2006) was also a significant figure in West Australian modernism. She developed her practice alongside Guy, creating paintings that explored the natural landscape of Western Australia. Her work is noted for its approach to colour and form in representing the region's environment.

Together, Guy and Helen Grey-Smith created an important body of work that contributed significantly to Western Australia's artistic heritage.

Their legacy is now preserved and celebrated at Lot 2 Artspace in Pemberton, where visitors can experience their work in an intimate gallery setting curated by their grandson.

Guy Grey-Smith's woodcut prints form an important part of the collection at Lot 2 Artspace. Working with bold lines and a strong understanding of the medium, these prints capture the Western Australian landscape through Grey-Smith's distinctive modernist vision. The collection at Lot 2 provides visitors with access to a range of his printmaking work, from forest studies to larger compositional pieces that reflect his engagement with the natural environment of the Western Australia. Under the stewardship of his grandson Leigh, these works are presented in an intimate gallery setting that emphasises their continuing relevance and connection to place.

Works are for sale via Lot 2 Artspace. Contact leigh@lot2.art for inquries

Janet Leigh is a contemporary multidisciplinary artist based in Meerup, Western Australia.

Her practice encompasses painting, drawing, and collage, employing oil paint, soft pastels, paper, digital images, ink, and charcoal.

Best known for abstracted landscapes and wildflower motifs, Leigh translates place, weather and memory into chromatic fields rather than literal depiction.

Alongside this, her figurative drawing and collage mine thedetritus of personal histories, using fragmentation and trace as visual strategies.

Her Practice is characterised using large brushes, scrapers and robust square pastels, she privileges movement and momentum over fine control, allowing energetic, layered surfaces to emerge as records of bodily presence.

Janet Leigh’s notable achievements include the Perkins Best Overall Award for her drawing ‘Wish You Were Here’ at Bunbury Regional Gallery’s Biennial Survey (2014) and finalist selection in the Gosford Regional GalleryOpen Award (2010, NSW).

She has presented solo exhibitions First Drawings (Painted Tree Gallery, Northcliffe, 2012) and Drawing Year (Courthouse Gallery, Busselton, 2014).

Born in Lima, Peru in 1964, Janet Leigh lives and works on a remote property in Meerup, Western Australia.

Her work has been recognised with the Perkins prize at Bunbury Regional Art Galleries’ Biennial Survey in 2014 and selection as a finalist in the Gosford Regional Gallery Open Award in 2010 (NSW), alongside solo exhibitions First Drawings (Painted Tree Gallery, Northcliffe, 2012) and Drawing Year (Courthouse Gallery, Busselton, 2014)