Artist and designer Sioux Tempestt's long love affair with the historic buildings of Perth has resulted in a series of colourful digital artworks challenging observers to look at their city differently.

The series, titled Chronicle, came about after years of observing Perth with her camera in hand.

"I would just wander around the city, which I love doing; I love people watching," Tempestt said.

"I have taken thousands of photographs over quite a long period of time of different areas."

Sioux Tempestt loves observing and photographing Perth. ( 720 ABC Perth: Emma Wynne )

To create her artworks, which are photographic collages in a rainbow of added colours, Tempestt selected images with the clearest details.

"Then I spend quite a lot of time in Photoshop getting rid of backgrounds and reconstructing a photographic image," she said.

"It needs to work from a design perspective and also create a new landscape of buildings."

She used old door and window frames found on a demolition site to frame the works, and in some cases used the original glass to create a lightbox behind the images.

"It's to get people looking at Perth in the different light.

"I have just found it interesting — the number of people who work in the city who don't actually look at anything.

"They look at their phones or down on the ground."

Colour Me Perth - Sioux Tempestt's digital artwork encourages viewers to look at the city in a new light. ( 720 ABC Perth: Emma Wynne )

Reece Harley, chairman and founder of the Museum of Perth, said exhibitions like Tempestt's were the reason he wanted to start the museum.

"I had always, when we founded the museum, intended on bringing together historians, artists, curators, event managers and all sorts of different people to see the city through different eyes," Mr Harley said.

"I love this artwork because it is a different take on Perth's history.

"It's rare to find someone as passionate as I am about heritage buildings in this city."

He said the works had left visitors intrigued as they tried to identify which buildings the details in Tempestt's work come from.

"Perth was world renowned as a gold rush city. Throughout the 1890s we built in this city some of the most impressive architecture that was ever built in Australia and then systematically demolished most of it," Mr Harley said.

"The thing that I love about Sioux's exhibition is that it gives people a focus on those treasures that we have left."

Chronicle is at the Museum of Perth in Grand Lane until August 5.