This newsletter features the monthly events happening at the Holmes à Court Gallery @ Vasse Felix and the Holmes à Court Gallery @ no.10
Current Exhibition
Installation view, Concrete E X P A N D E D, 2019
Concrete E X P A N D E D 2 June - 22 September 2019
Holmes à Court Gallery at Vasse Felix
Concrete E X P A N D E D is in it's last few weeks.
Included are works from the Janet Holmes à Court collection, works from the Murdoch Collection, works from the Art Collective and local and interstate practicing artists, with some works available for purchase. See price list here.
About the Show: Concrete E X P A N D E D considers the affects of colour, design, pattern and shape through abstract non-objective art works. It takes part in a conversation about an ongoing artistic concern with Minimalist and Concrete Art in the new millennium. It playfully suggests an expansion of the Concrete Art genre that had a local explosion on the streets of Fremantle in the early 2000’s with the Australian Centre for Concrete Art (AC4CA).
Works from two artists who are part of the AC4CA - Helen Smith and Trevor Richards – are included in the show alongside works by artists who share an interest in geometric, non-objective, abstract art practice. Together with painting, there are three-dimensional wall-works, actual concrete sculptures, light sculptures and ephemeral light works. Across different media and different generations, these works coalesce and converse in philosophical questions of form, aesthetic experience and existence.
FEATURED ARTISTS:Rebecca Baumann, Consuelo Cavaniglia, Janenne Eaton, Robert Hunter, Brian McKay, Trevor Richards, Douglas Sheerer, Helen Smith, Trevor Vickers, Josh Webb.
Concrete E X P A N D E D, exhibition views, 2019
The Botanical: Beauty and Peril at the Art Gallery of WA is attracting excellent audiences and thoughtful reviews. To read what people are saying about it see:
The exhibition presents a rich selection of works combined from the Janet Holmes à Court Collection and the State Art Collection. The beauty of the botanical world is celebrated alongside an acknowledgement of the sobering reality of its imperilment resulting from human action.
Principal Partner: EY
Spirits Partner: Archie Rose Distilling Co.
Art Gallery of WA 6 July - 4 November 2019
The Botanical: Beauty and Peril, exhibition views, 2019
Upcoming Exhibitions
Polixeni Papapetrou, Hanging Rock 1900 #3, 2006, image courtesy the Artist and Michael Reid Sydney + Berlin
enigmas of the outback
ABOUT:
This exhibition presents similar responses to and perceptions of the Australian outback as an enigmatic, mysterious, spirited and haunted terrain. It explores the dark undercurrents that inform mythologies of the Australian landscape across contemporary indigenous and non-indigenous art works. The selection of photographic, paint and sculptural works reflect upon how the outback triggers the imagination in unsettling ways. As a journey through spiritual and mythological stories of the land, it is at once darkly evocative and psychologically compelling.
FEATURED ARTISTS:
Brook Andrew, Jane Burton, Rebecca Dagnall, Eva Fernandez, David Downs Jarinyanu, Nigel Hewitt, Janet Laurence, Rosslynd Piggott, Polixeni Papapetrou, Brad Rimmer, Jacqui Stockdale, Monique Tippet, Paul Uhlmann, Paddy Fordham Wainburranga, Toni Wilkinson.
DATES: 29th September - 9th February
Opening Sunday 29th September 2019
Holmes à Court Gallery at Vasse Felix
Lesley Meaney, Desert Odyssey, 2014
Lesley Meaney | Becoming Australian | 50 Years
This 50-year survey presents the art of Lesley Meaney as a journey of becoming Australian. A kaleidoscopic visual feast of vibrant colour, pattern and texture unfolds through a variety and abundance of art works. With a spirit of enquiry, Meaney draws inspiration from the Australian bush, the heart of the forest and desert. Each of these places have come to define Meaney’s identity and sense of home. This is an evolving journey through painting, drawing, curious objects and stitched works, that speaks of impermanence, the details and forces of nature and their translation into becoming Australian.
DATES:5th October - 17th November 2019
Holmes à Court Gallery @ No.10
10 Douglas St. West Perth, WA, 6005
T: (08) 6217 2640
Gallery Hours: Wed-Sun, 12-6pm
Other News
Recent Acquisitions
Carmela Corvaia, Spiral III, 2018
Local artist Carmela Corvaia recently held an incredibly poetic solo exhibition titled Resonance at the Moores Building Contemporary Art Gallery. Corvaia works with natural found materials, including sticks, stones and leaves and she combines these with felting, twining and stitching. Five works were acquired for the Janet Holmes à Court collection, including the work pictured above made of dyed fleece and the work below made of dyed fleece, yarn, wire, plant fibre string, beach finds (coal, ceramic, stone).
Carmela Corvaia, Shore 1, 2019
Majorie Coleman, Full Fathom Five, 2015-16
This work was recently acquired from a sell-out exhibition of wonderously intricate works by Marjorie Coleman. The exhibition followed a decade of Coleman's works and offered an insight into the mind of a prolific, innovative and profound maker.
Exhibition Space Available!!
Check out this amazing space! We are currently taking applications for exhibitions and events.
If you are interested contact Exhibitions Manager Laetitia Wilson: Laetitia.Wilson@heytesbury.com.au
