Collection Focus #4 // The Hills : An Artists' Gathering

After gracing the Holmes à Court Gallery at Vasse Felix, Collection Focus #4 // The Hills: An Artists’ Gathering comes to no.10.

This exhibition offers a rare opportunity to reflect on the period in which artists in Darlington and its surrounds formed a vibrant creative community, forging new directions in art. Among the highlights of the exhibition is Brian Blanchflower’s Glimpses (An Earth History), 1986-1987, described by critic David Bromfield as the artist’s most ambitious work of the 1980s. The Janet Holmes à Court Collection, which now numbers more than four and a half thousand works, began modestly with three purchases from the 1968 Darlington Arts & Craft Exhibition. Those early acquisitions, along with many subsequent works by artists in the Perth hills, continue to form a core of the Collection today.

ARTISTS

Hans Arkeveld, Mac Betts, Robert Birch, Sandra Black, Brian Blanchflower, Wim Boissevain, Douglas Chambers, Madeleine Clear, Betsey Currie-Linton, Toni Donley, Stuart Elliott, Guy Grey Smith, Helen Grey Smith, George Haynes, Nigel Hewitt, Robert Juniper, Theo Koning, Bethamy Linton, Vaclav Macha, Brian McKay, Hal Missingham, Philippa O’Brien, Nalda Searles, Bernard Tandy, Howard Taylor, Michele Theunissen, Linda Van Der Merwe, Richard Woldendorp

IMAGE: Brian Blanchflower, Glimpses (An Earth History), 1986-1987. Oils on acrylic gesso on canvas. 169 x 658 cm