Byline: VICTORIA LAURIE

The poignancy felt by those attending the opening of Miriam Stannage: Survey 2006-2016 in July, with the artist ill and absent, has deepened with the news of her death last weekend.

In what has turned out to be Miriam Stannage's last exhibition, still showing at the University of Western Australia's Lawrence Wilson Gallery, curator Lee Kinsella sought to reflect the artist's "characteristically wry observations of life ... and ongoing experimentation and innovation across a range of media".

Born in 1939 in rural Western Australia, Stannage was a conceptual artist who took a fiercely innovative approach to making...